more by Christopher John Treacy
[FOLK] Mary Gauthier wasn’t looking to get into a political discussion with her new disc, Rifles & Rosary Beads.
[JAM] It’s been said before, and it’s a fitting description: Keller WIlliams a one-man-jam-band.
[FOLK] A Greenwich Village folk scene original who grew up in nearby Snyder, Eric Andersen, now 75, has written tunes recorded by Johnny Cash, Dylan, the Dead, Linda Ronstadt, Judy Collins and many others.
[EMO] We all know that emo is still alive and well, and Moose Blood attests to its presence in the UK.
[ROCK] So, for anyone that might be wondering: it has, essentially, always been “Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo.” Benatar, now 65, met Giraldo while she was on the cusp of recording her stellar 1979 debut, In the Heat of the Night.
[COUNTRY] Signed to indie country label Broken Bow prior to its recent acquisition by BMG, Dustin Lynch is a Tennessee native who’s enjoyed a ton of country radio airplay over the course of eight massive hit singles (three platinum and three gold) and three albums, plus a h
[TRIBUTE] Covering Steely Dan is no joke. Fagen and Becker took the band off the road in 1975 because they felt the sound they were achieving in the studio wasn’t well enough represented by their stage show, and they didn’t emerge in a live format again until 1993.
[BLUES] Call it a blues-rock power trio. Formed after two decades of working together on projects far and wide, guitarist/singer Paul DesLauriers, bassist Greg Morency and drummer Sam Harrisson decided a few years back to focus their energy on this outlet, which is based out of Montreal.
[HARDCORE] Named after a song by the Boston 1990’s metal-hardcore hybrid outfit Only Living Witness, Twitching Tongues is an L.A.-based quartet with a pair of siblings at the base.
[INDIE] Since releasing their 2011 debit, Pillow Talk, Austin’s Wild Child has sustained an impressive indie buzz, which landed them on Late Night with Craig Ferguson in 2013, while promoting their Ben Kweller-produced second album The Runaround.