The Avett Brothers and Widespread Panic will headline the 2021 Mempho Music Festival, a three-day live-concert gathering at the Memphis Botanic Garden in Memphis held October 1st through 3rd. Along with the Avetts and Widespread Panic, who will play two of the three nights, the lineup includes Nathaniel Rateliff & …
Read More »Hear Lucinda Williams Cover Sharon Van Etten's 'Save Yourself'
Eleven years after releasing the indie-rock touchstone Epic,Sharon Van Etten has enlisted an impressive group of artists from Fiona Apple to Courtney Barnett — to cover the entirety of her debut album. The latest preview of Epic Ten, the deluxe version of Van Etten’s debut due next month, comes from …
Read More »Bruce Springsteen, Bob Weir, Lucinda Williams Set for Joe Strummer Tribute Livestream
UPDATE:Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy has been added to the A Song for Joe livestream lineup. ** Bruce Springsteen, Bob Weir and Lucinda Williams will help celebrate Joe Strummer’s birthday during a special livestream tribute/charity event August 21st, starting at 3 p.m. ET. A Song for Joe: Celebrating the Life of Joe …
Read More »Jesse Malin and Lucinda Williams Celebrate Hard-Fought Survival on 'Sunset Kids'
Jesse Malin had a shit year in 2018. His father, former guitarist, and producer all died. So his new album Sunset Kids, his first in four years, could have been a major bummer. Instead, it’s a celebration of survival that finds the New York City hardcore troubadour reflecting on life’s …
Read More »Jesse Malin Celebrates Seedy Motels in Harrowing 'Room 13' Video
Jesse Malin immortalized London’s Columbia Hotel on his 2004 album The Heat, writing about the loneliness and liberation of the transient existence in the song “Hotel Columbia.” It’s a theme he explores further and brings to colorful life in the new video for “Room 13,” the lead single off his …
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