High Road Touring

[Rolling Stone] Dylan LeBlanc, “Renegade”A minor-key rocker, “Renegade” would’ve dominated the FM radio in 1982, back when Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers filled the airwaves with darkly-driven anthems like “A Woman In Love (It’s Not Me).” Producer Dave Cobb captures LeBlanc and his road band, the Pollies, in their natural habitat: playing together live, guitars ...

[NPR] By Stephen Thompson John Paul White is a Tiny Desk veteran two times over: He’s performed once as a solo artist and once as half of the decorated and now-defunct Americana duo The Civil Wars. So he was a natural to take the stage for NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Family Hour, a nearly four-hour ...

Venerable Ohio band mark 30 years of music and touring with 15th studio LP By JOSEPH HUDAK [Rolling Stone] When Americana duo Over the Rhine recorded their first batch of songs in March 1989, members Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist were just two aspiring songwriters, eager to bounce ideas off each other and tell their ...

[Billboard] By Gary Graff The typical South By Southwest showcase performance is a short burst — 40 minutes, maybe, an attention-stirring sampling of what an act is capable of. But Amanda Palmer has no interest in being typical.    The former Dresden Dolls member’s performance on Thursday night (March 14) at Austin’s Central Presbyterian Church was a memorable epic, a two-hour ...