Archive for February, 2011
From London With Tennessee Soul: Lauren Pritchard
A few years ago, right around when Amy Winehouse’s Back To Black was tearing up the charts and taking home Grammys, there was an idea for a female singer that could bridge naughty retro funk with a soul-jazz sophistication and a deep south ’70s R&B-country sound. A sort of Amy Winehouse-meets-Keith Richards, if you will. [...]
Aimee Mann Heads Out On Tour
We’re excited to learn that Aimee Mann will launch a new tour this April, supporting her 2008 release @#%&*! Smilers. Eight dates have been announced so far, with more slated to come. Mann recently made a cameo on Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein’s Portland-busting IFC show, Portlandia, portraying herself as a cleaning lady. And thanks [...]
Garth Brooks Leads 2011 Songwriters Hall Of Fame Inductees
Garth Brooks has been roped into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame; the country music icon joins Leon Russell, Allen Toussaint, John Bettis, Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly in the 2011 class of inductees. Last year saw Leonard Cohen, Jackie DeShannon, and Earth Wind & Fire join the Hall of Fame ranks. The new members will [...]
Study Says Nashville Really Is Music City
In an article for The Atlantic, author Richard Florida asks, “Is the landscape of popular music changing?” Florida looks at the recent Grammy wins by Montreal’s Arcade Fire and Nashville’s Lady Antebellum and wonders whether those artists’ home towns aren’t displacing L.A. and New York as the dominant music markets. Florida and his team have [...]
Just The Facts: Rolling Stone Debunks The Lyrics To Classic Songs
While they’re currently under fire for misquoting the Bieb, Rolling Stone has always been the go-to authority on rock facts and figures. There’s a fun feature up on their Website today, in which author Andy Greene presents eleven “famous rock songs” (although Run-D.M.C. are technically hip-hop… see, fact-checking is easy) which contain factually inaccurate lyrics. [...]
Psychopomp: A Q&A With Kuroma’s Hank Sullivant
The word Psychopompos is from ancient Greece and means “soul guide” – the leader of souls into the afterlife. Hank Sullivant says his new album, Psychopomp, is a combination of his band Kuroma’s two previous projects. After the ’60s psych-inspired Paris and a pop-exploiting singles project, “Get The Gunz” and “In New York, Everything Is [...]
“Wide Open Spaces” Writer Susan Gibson Visits The AS Office
We had the distinct pleasure of having CMA Award-winning singer-songwriter Susan Gibson visit our Nashville digs a short while back, to play us some songs from her new album, TightRope, as well as “Wide Open Spaces,” the tune she penned for the Dixie Chicks which jump-started her career. Check out the video below of Gibson’s [...]
Recording with Dr. Dog, West Hurley, New York
Brooklyn-based photographer Nina Westervelt spent an afternoon documenting Dr. Dog as they laid down track for their upcoming album Shame, Shame at Dreamland Studios. Check out more at Nina’s site and in the current issue of American Songwriter.
2010 Grammy Awards arrivals, Los Angeles 01/31/2010
Artists arrive on the red carpet prior to The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards at The Staples Center in Los Angeles on January 31.
The Strokes Announce Free SXSW Show
Going to South By Southwest this year? Here’s the show you need to squeeze into the most. The Strokes have confirmed via Twitter that they’ll be playing a free show on March 17 at Auditorium Shores Stage at Ladybird Lake, their first time at SXSW since 2001. The band will be promoting their fourth studio [...]
Entries (RSS)