Despatches from the Americana Festival; Howlin’ Whippet checks in. He’s not a household name by any means, but Texan Alejandro Escovedo should be. He has enough previous to fuel dark, layered stories and wild places in which his world is built. As guitarist with The Nuns he opened for the Sex Pistols at their last [...]
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Ryan Adams has been on the road this week and is playing Whiskeytown songs for the first time in his solo career. Still, you can’t beat the real thing, so here’s a very rare performance from 1997 of the classic ’16 Days’.
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Legendary songwriter Alex Chilton has died in New Orleans. He was 59. The Big Star founder had suffered from heart problems recently and complained of feeling ill earlier this week. Unfortunately, his condition deteriorated and he passed away in hospital on the 17th March. Big Star’s commercial success was inexplicably minimal, but their influence was [...]
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Well, my friends, if it hasn’t gone and happened again; yes, Friday has rolled around once more. It’s a time for the working man to put down his tools, to wipe the sweat from his brow and to relax. Well, traditionally anyway, what it generally means in these modern times is productivity drops to the [...]
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Ryan Adams has in the past appeared to be a young man with a very short attention span, given his prolific release schedule over the last decade or so. But it seems that he has finally grown bored of an endless release cycle, even incorporating the many different genres he has recorded in. In fact, [...]
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One of the founding tenets of ELM was that there is simply so much music about that it’s hard to know where to begin. That’s especially true when you are dealing with a prolific artist, and they don’t come much more productive than Ryan Adams. He’s been the golden boy of a modern dawn of [...]
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There’s been a real rash of these ‘deluxe’ editions recently. The more cynical amongst us may wonder if this is due to the downturn in sales of new CD’s. After all, these lavish packages are aimed at people who already own the album and will be willing to shell out another £15 for a few [...]
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Does it hook you? Does it intrigue you? How does a lyric get a grip in your brain and start the descent to your heart? With it’s opening, of course! Here we salute some fine examples of opening lines; Modest Mouse – Float On; “I drove my car into a cop car the other day, [...]
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