Akron/Family enchant the AS office with the song “River.” Recorded and mixed by Steve Martin. Video shot and edited by Ian Maravalli.

Akron/Family perform “Love And Space” from the EP Meek Warrior. Recorded and mixed by Steve Martin. Video shot and edited by Ian Maravalli.

Akron/Family perform “Canopy” for the AS office. Recorded and mixed by Steve Martin. Video shot and edited by Ian Maravalli.

Akron/Family perform a tune from the album “Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free.”

The mesmerizing 37-minute jam session recently posted on Neil Young’s website is in fact “Horse Back,” a hodgepodge of songs performed by Neil Young and his backing band, Crazy Horse. Neil Young has now confirmed that he has completed an album with the band, and expects a spring release. Ben Kweller tells the New York [...]

How did you first get into Bob Dylan? I can’t remember not knowing who Bob Dylan was but it wasn’t until Eric Clapton’s release of Time Pieces in 1982 that I really connected with Dylan as a songwriter. I fell in love with Clapton’s version of “Knocking on Heaven’s Door” and only then learned that [...]

Madison Rising’s self-titled debut album was released in October 2011. The band – with Dave Bray on vocals, Alex Bodnar and Christopher Schreiner on lead guitar, Steve Padelski on bass and Sam Fishman on drums – makes guitar-heavy rock music with a distinctively pro-American message and sound. The overarching theme of the band’s music is [...]

Various Artists: Please, Please, Please: A Tribute to The Smiths (American Laundromat Records) Rating: Who knew The Smiths were this depressing? Yes, the lyrics are often bleak, but the song craft is still of the tongue-in-cheek, cigarette-on-lip variety – almost too smug to sound sad. On Please, Please, Please: A Tribute to The Smiths, a [...]

“Someone Like You” Written by: Dan Wilson & Adele Adkins Recorded by: Adele Peak Chart Position: No. 1, Billboard Hot 100 When and where did you and Adele write “Someone Like You?” Dan Wilson: Adele and I met for the first time at our session at Harmony Studio in Hollywood, about a year and a [...]

Jack’s back. Today, Raconteur and Third Man Records head honcho Jack White releases “Love Interruption,” the first single from his debut solo album, Blunderbuss. The new album will hit stores April 24 on Third Man Records/Columbia. White describes the self-produced Blunderbuss as “an album I couldn’t have released until now. I’ve put off making records under my [...]

Take a listen to “Apparition” from The Foundry, an excellent new EP (out 2/21) from Brooklyn indie-folk act Leland Sundries. “I wrote ‘Apparition’ in a cabin on the Vermont/New Hampshire line over a July 4th weekend,” says Leland Sundries frontman Nick Loss-Eaton. “A rough breakup, a bottle of rosé, and that open chord full of [...]

Martin Sexton is the guy John Mayer calls “one of the most treasured singer-songwriters I’ve ever heard in my life.” Mayer must have first become acquainted with the Syracuse, New York-born artist when he was busking in Harvard Square while Mayer was a student at Boston’s Berklee School of Music. The two Boston transplants have [...]