Like everyone on the planet right now, Tom Van Deursen had big plans for 2020. But even before COVID-19 shut the live music scene down, Van Deursen’s best laid plans
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Sometimes the coolest guy is the guy who doesn’t even bother to try. This applies to bands as well. Just write some good tunes and forget the pretensions. This seems
The near sell-out crowd was a frothy-throated bunch, eager for a liftoff to their weekend. Billy Bragg must have felt that vibe flitting through the Vogue. Strolling out onto stage
Rock memoirs tend to fall into one of two categories: 1) the self-aggrandizement of a misfit whose life is a tsunami of drugs, sex, and fame. 2) the acrimonious account
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Hardcore legends Bad Brains are straight outta D.C. yet again with their latest, Into the Future. After thirty-six years, the Bad Brains are as righteous and enigmatic as ever. Future
“If Romney gets in, I’m screwed,” says a candid Mark Eitzel, the 53-year-old singer-songwriter, on the phone from L.A. With his country going to the polls in early November, and
Not to make you feel old, but The Herbaliser (Ninja Tune pioneers) have been scratching and cutting their wicked brew for 18 years now. And by the sound of their
Anyone who saw 74-year-old Wanda Jackson’s performance at Venue this past October knows that there’s a lot of fire remaining in this, to use Bob Dylan’s term, fireball. An industry
A Dark Boat is the latest work by Patrick Friesen, encompassing a collection of brief, evocative works composed while traveling through Spain in 2005 and 2010. For a Prairie boy