50 years after the Youngbloods got together and rocked the nation, Lowell Levinger, known fondly as Banana, is revisiting those nine wild years with a special collector’s album, Get Together: … Read more
NRBQ co-founder Terry Adams has embarked on an ambitious new project: writing his own arrangements of Thelonious Monk compositions to create a new album, Talk Thelonious, set to be released … Read more
Having grown up in an agricultural community in San Joaquin Valley, California, Lance Canales was brought up in a tradition of hard work, folk and blues. Drawing on this background … Read more
Albert Hammond, Jr. is my favorite member of one of my favorite bands ever: the Strokes. All of the band members’ various side projects have their merits, but it’s the … Read more
Emily West’s debut album is a haunting blend of heartbreak and majesty. Her pop vocals have country, broadway and jazz twists, accompanied by an impressive vibrato, giving her sound a … Read more
This one-day event was held for the first time at the Venice Island Performing Arts Center in Manayunk, a trendy Philadelphia community on the Schuylkill River. The late morning and … Read more
Twenty-nine-year-old Bobby Long has released an album that is wise beyond his years. Ode to Thinking is a soulful collection of Americana/folk tracks that features traces of Long’s musical heroes: Elliott … Read more
Graham Nash is clearly comfortable around his listeners, given that he treats venues like private living room jams. Before a sold-out crowd at this noted Berkshires hall, the white-haired legend strolled onto a candle-strewn stage … Read more
Singer/songwriter Rayland Baxter’s Imaginary Man takes a firm grasp on your consciousness. Baxter combines his all-around musical prowess with some deep, heartfelt lyricism and forceful yet powerful vocals, and knocks this … Read more
Nile Rodgers pulled off an exceptionally brilliant and funktastic Tuesday and Wednesday at Martha Clara Vineyards, the very place where the idea was conceived to put on FOLD Festival. The … Read more
