Die Spitz’s Anarchic Fun Can’t be Contained
[NME] This snarling, genre-mashing Austin quartet are the most exciting new rock band on the planet, and they’re doing everything their way Words by Huw Baines llie Livingston leans on the glass frontage of an almost empty laundromat. Washed out by the half-alive glow of neon strip lights, she sparks a cigarette and slips on a ...
Check Out Robert Plant and Saving Grace’s New Song “Chevrolet,” a Reworked Version of the 1965 Donovan Tune “Hey Gyp”
[American Songwriter] By Matt Friedlander Robert Plant and his current group, Saving Grace, have released a third advance track from their upcoming debut album, Saving Grace. The song, titled “Chevrolet,” is a reimagined version of the 1965 Donovan song “Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness).” “Hey Gyp,” in turn, was an adaptation of the 1930 Delta blues tune “Can I Do It ...
After a Decade Away, Alabama Shakes Return With a New Song, ‘Another Life’
[NPR] Is there a more powerful marketing tool than nostalgia? It’s an essential element of many a reunion tour, where audiences clamor to see acts from pop music’s past romp through the hits of their heydays. There’s something a bit more complicated, and rewarding, going on with the reunion of the Alabama Shakes. For one ...
Cass McCombs: Interior Live Oak Review – Double Album Doubles the Pleasures of One of Indie-Rock’s Finest
[The Guardian] With existential lullabies and ritualistic stomps, tear-jerking odes and ballads worthy of Sinatra, US indie’s steadfast storyteller makes a wonderfully unhurried double album his best yet By Ben Beaumont-Thomas As bloated piles of “content” overfill our cultural to-do lists, a double album isn’t always met with a warm welcome: an 80-minute film is ...
Hayes Carll Turns Inward With Clever and Charming Songcraft on ‘We’re Only Human’
[Glide Magazine] By John Moore Like John Prine and Jerry Jeff Walker before him, Hayes Carll has made a career out of blending mellow, infectious acoustic folk with sharp, often humorous portraits of everyday people. But on We’re Only Human, his 10th studio album, one of the first things you’ll notice is that Carll has turned that ...
