In Tune: Dispatches from Harvest Fest
If Wakarusa is a purple-dreaded starlet, whirling barefoot in the grass, a flash of body paint, bikini bottoms and chemical haze, Mulberry Mountain’s other giant party, Harvest Fest, is her well-studied older sister—maxi-skirt swaying to the beat, moonshine rounding the campfire, pungent smoke rising from the crowd.
Mary Timony Ripz It Up
Mary Timony says, "I don't know, I don't know" and giggles often, seemingly embarrassed or frustrated that she's being asked, yet again, to analyze her career and the music scenes it has crawled, careened and capered through.
Kari Faux is the Real Deal
A Little Rock rapper gets Lost en Los Angeles.
Young Gods of America = Homegrown Hip Hop
YGOA carves out a Little Rock scene and takes risks for fame and fortune.
Mud, Music and Magic: Dancing, hugs, a couple of duds, rain and other impressions from 4 days of Wakarusa
Wakarusa has a reputation as a longtime jam-band festival that increasingly caters to the blissed-out, hula-hooping hippie's alter ego, the electronically fueled, dance-all-night party kid.
Adventures in Austin
Tracking Arkansans in Austin at South by Southwest 2013…also wrote this profile on the Little Rock rapper, SL Jones, while I was there.
The Best Record Store in Mississippi
The Little Big Store used to be little (a shed on a road with a plethora of abandoned buses) and ended up big, now occupying five rooms of a rambling train depot filled with (most likely) millions of records.
Killing the Darlings with Pearl and the Beard
Pearl and the Beard is a Brooklyn-based trio, celebrating intimacy, nerd-dom and quirky, downscaled chamber-pop.
Sixties Vibe
Harold Ott’s Psych of the South Label releases songs from little-known southern garage rock bands from the ‘60s.
Aunty Disco Project bows out
Aunty Disco Project announced their break up shortly after lead singer Omar Akhtar decided to move to New York to study journalism. The band says goodbye with their last performance in Pakistan.
White Water Tavern Blows Up, Courtesy of Ty Segall and Friends
Ty Segall erupted all over White Water last night, even as the remnants of his openers, album-mates White Fence and sometime label-mates Useless Eaters, were still dripping off the rafters.
Tried and True: John Paul Keith and the One Four Fives at White Water Tavern
There’s nothing new here, and frankly, that’s why it works.
What’s In a Label?
Jackson’s a tiny city, but the musicians are forming bands and the lawyers are forming…record labels?