(The Punch Brothers) The Americana Music Association has announced the performers for the Americana Music Festival, held September 12-15 in downtown Nashville. Artists booked for the three day festival include: Punch Brothers, Brandi Carlile, Billy Joe Shaver, Richard Thompson, Sara Watkins, Shovels and Rope, the Deep Dark Woods, John Hiatt, the Wood Brothers, Rodney Crowell, [...]

Did you have a good ‘Roo? Whether you watched from home on the webcast, slogged it out for four nights in Manchester, or are blissfully ignorant of the entire weekend, we’ve got the skinny on ten legendary moments from this year’s Bonnaroo. Dawes Grow Up Dawes drew a huge crowd to the Sonic Stage on [...]

If you weren’t at Bonnaroo on opening night Thursday  (or Wednesday, for that matter), you could still follow all the action via Twitter. Here’s what we learned. Folk-bluegrass wizards Punch Brothers took requests via Twitter on Thursday night for a special show: One of Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr.’s guitars went missing, but it all worked [...]

(PHOTOS: Danny Clinch) Imagine what Bill Monroe might be doing today if he were 30. Just as he did some 70 years ago, he might be revolutionizing the role of the mandolin in modern music, and sometimes singing in a falsetto, while fronting a modern quintet featuring only the best musicians on mandolin, guitar, banjo, [...]

Punch Brothers Who’s Feeling Young Now? (Nonesuch) Rating: Chris Thile’s virtuosity as a singer and a mandolin player should surprise no one by now. Nor should his ambition and adventurous spirit. Since leaving the smoother, poppier confines of Nickel Creek in 2007, he has been prolific, almost restless, releasing solo albums and collaborations that stretched [...]

Esteemed Southern clothier Billy Reid has been described as a “musician at heart.” So it’s no surprise that the designer is the perfect candidate to host the Shindig, a showcase during SXSW that featured some of the very artists that inspire Reid’s clothing line, including Brendan Benson, Delta Spirit (pictured above), Phosphorescent and Punch Brothers. [...]

Wednesday’s Billy Reid & K-Swiss Shindig, featuring Punch Brothers, Delta Spirit, Apache Relay, Shelly Colvin, Matthew Houck, Wild Cub and Jonny Corndawg, was a must-see event.

Punch Brothers, “Movement And Location” Driven forward by eighth-note violin riffs and acrobatic vocals, “Movement And Location” is the sound of progressive bluegrass entering the 21st century at a gallop. There’s a good deal of star power in the Punch Brothers’ lineup, but Chris Thile shines the brightest on this track, leaping into a Jeff [...]

Punch Brothers play the Billy Reid Shindig on Wednesday, March 14, 2012, at Swan Dive. Click here to RSVP. Read reviews and get a free download of tracks from each of our Shindig artists, including the Punch Brothers’ “Movement And Location,” by downloading our Sampler. We recently chatted with banjoist Noam Pikelny about the song, [...]

The Billy Reid and K-Swiss Shindig is back for a second year, and to help celebrate the news, we’re launching a free digital sampler, showcasing all the great artists on the bill. Click here to download the 7 song digital sampler. Be sure to join us at The Swan Dive on Wednesday, March 14th, from [...]

Get ready to have your funnybone tickled. The Punch Brothers’ Noam Pikelny, who earned the first annual Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass Music, is the subject of this new bluegrass mockumentary, starring Martin, Ed Helms, Gillian Welch, Bela Fleck, Earl Scruggs and more. Should banjo prodigies be allowed to sing? The [...]

Mandolin wunderkind gets a little help from her friends.