By Hamish MacLean Canmore Leader Singer-songwriters haven't been a big deal since the 1970s. Peter Verity knows that and he's OK with it. There

To celebrate their beautiful new album, The New Pornographers are returning to Australia this November to show it off to Australian fans.

Filed under: Exclusive , New Music Sony When singer-songwriter Ray LaMontagne began thinking about making his follow-up album to 'Gossip in the Grain,' he was unsure about the direction and sound the record would take on. Yet in an age when artists routinely delay recording to get the producer of their choice, LaMontagne knew exactly who would produce the finely crafted 'God Willin' & the Creek ...

August 20 Southgate House Nearly three and a half decades ago, Webb Wilder and R.S. Field lit out of their native Hattiesburg, Miss., homesteads and headed for the bright lights and smoky bars of Austin, Tex, and nothing has been the same since. They bring their unique "Swampadelic" mix to Southgate House on Friday.

Darrell Blasius said he is thrilled that despite tougher economic times, Taste of Kokomos eagerly anticipated menu will not be any shorter this year.

David Gray [ tickets ], "Foundling" (Downtown/Mercer Street) Gray returns to his folk-music roots on his self-produced, London-recorded follow-up to last year's much more lush "Draw The Line." The 11 songs on the main disc -- there is an eight-song bonus disc -- were recorded at the same time as "Draw the Line," only at moments when his band was not around. He spent six months recording, and by ...

The marquee headlining act at the Philadelphia Folk Festival this year might seem an odd choice as poster boy for a venerable institution's brave new youth movement.

The Starlite DeVilles has one thing going for it that few other bands in Athens do decades of musical experience and knowledge. Between them, lead singer Eric Gregory and lead guitarist Keith Fowler have been playing music since the late 80s. But the DeVilles do have a least one common trait an interesting backstory. It began, [...]

The marquee headlining act at the Philadelphia Folk Festival this year might seem an odd choice as poster boy for a venerable institution's brave new youth movement.

On tap this week Premiering tomorrow: "The Big C," Showtime's dark comedy series about a strait-laced teacher (Laura Linney) who cuts loose after a diagnosis of terminal cancer. The Wiggles: Sam, Murray, Jeff, Anthony and their friends in "The Wiggles Wiggly Circus," 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Carpenter Theatre, Richmond CenterStage, ...

Canada | Travel By Michelle Williams , Aug. 13, 2010 The drive from Vancouver Airport up to Whistler Village is about two and a half hours of pure eye candy. Although I mention a drive, you really dont need a car in Whistler at all. This ...

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SCOTT H. BIRAM 9 p.m., Juanita's. $7. After touring relentlessly for the better part of the last decade, this self-described "Dirty Old One Man Band" has made quite a reputation for himself as a beer-soaked, hard-ass troubadour. [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

Rootsy rocker John Mellencamp will return to the Twin Cities for a two-night stand at the Orpheum Theatre Nov. 22 and 23. Prior to his performance each night, Mellencamp will screen the documentary 'It's About You,' which was shot during his joint tour with Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson.

Already confirmed to play the Narooma Blues Festival, newly ordained alt-country kid Ben Kweller has announced a run of national sideshows.

The Sadies are from Toronto, Ontario. The great white north. Yes! We've got some quality tuneage here. Now, I always spell it tuneage as opposed to tunage, which to me reads "tonage" and this, though excellent music, is not that heavy. When I say they are a good band, I suppose that could be taken two ways- The band consists of Dallas Good (also of Phono-Comb), Travis Good, Sean Dean, and Mike ...

Specialists in a very particular brand of Texas rock & roll, the Mother Truckers focus on the constituent parts of rock music. The band's blues-and-country-inspired rave-ups are undeniably habit-forming, with their anthemic sweeps and irrepressible sense of rhythm.

Forty-three years ago, the Mallett Brothers took the stage for the first time in Fort Fairfield. David Mallett, now a beloved Maine songwriter famed for timeless songs such as "The Garden Song," ...

Death Cab For Cuties multiple-Grammy-nominated 2008 CD Narrow Stairs, which debuted at the top of the Billboard charts, begins with Bixby Canyon Bridge. On it, songwriter Ben Gibbard opens the track by airily singing: I descended a dusty gravel road/ Beneath the Bixby Canyon Bridge/ Until I eventually arrived/ At the place where your soul had died. But then, after several more lines about ...

Daniel J. Rylander by Stephen Seigel Daniel J. Rylander is a bankruptcy attorney with Robinson and Rylander PC, a firm that fought a case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and won a 9-0 ruling in March (United Student Aid Funds, Inc. v. Espinosa). An avid fan and supporter of the local music scene, Rylander also serves as the emcee of Second Saturdays Downtown's main outdoor stage on Scott ...