Hollis Brown – who take their name from Bob Dylan’s “Ballad of Hollis Brown” – is an American rock & roll band formed by songwriters Mike Montali (lead vocals, guitar) and Jonathan Bonilla (lead guitar), a … Read more
Photos by Ebet Roberts Lincoln Center Out of Doors timetraveled back to 1976, when the Band had their farewell performance at the Winterland Ballroom. Grammy Winner Larry Campbell and other special … Read more
Barely out of his teens and just starting out a career in Nashville music industry, singer and guitar player Dave Coleman started the Coal Men with drummer Dave Ray because, as … Read more
If you are a fan of prog rock and not a fan of February snow storms, buy your tickets for Cruise to the Edge, the genre’s biggest, wildest festival, aboard … Read more
Since the Burlington, VT based psych-rock band Madaila dropped their first release, The Dance, in 2015, they’ve become hometown heroes—spoken of by critics and fans in the same breath as … Read more
Historians and musicologists will tell you there’s a direct link between Bluegrass as it originated in Appalachia and the traditional folk sounds of the British Irish, be it from England, … Read more
That dream factory of surrealistic, experimental indie-pop known as the Elephant 6 Collective never really closed its doors for good. As drummer for the Apples in Stereo since 2006, John … Read more
Yet another millennial blows into town (via Detroit) carrying, of all things, a baritone sax and starts to light fires in the clubs. With a soulful mojo of edge and … Read more
“You can look at Nashville pre-Kris and post-Kris, because he changed everything.” – Bob Dylan Sixteen discs, and all I get to review is a chintzy two disc sampler?! Man, … Read more
After evolving from a somewhat archaic form of old-timey music of the back porch variety, today’s bluegrass has become a populist genre filled a crowded field of contenders. Irene Kelley, … Read more
