Ahh, Colorado in San Francisco. Couldn’t feel any more comfortable at The Independent last night as famed Boulder, Colorado native band Leftover Salmon took the stage to bring everyone into the realm of Rock and Roll. The Colorado connection running deep and the true pride of the Rockies ...view article
It's been nearly five years since singer/songwriter Slaid Cleaves released the critically-acclaimed Wishbones (2004), the follow up to his breakthrough disc, 2000's well-received Broke Down. Longstanding fans of the New England-born, Texas-based singer/songwriter will be excited to ...view article
Mark Karan & Jemimah Puddleduck are hitting both coasts in the next two months, as well as offering support to four worthy causes. MK will be joined at all shows by Bob Gross on bass and Billy Lee Lewis on drums, and while JT Thomas is out touring with Bruce Hornsby during a few of these ...view article
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Swarme of Beese
Backwoods of My Mind
2022 Backwoods Modern Recordings BWM 1670
Out of the vibrant, diverse and fertile music community of Austin, Texas, comes BACKWOODS OF MY MIND, the full-length debut of indie-folk trio, Swarme of Beese.
“Lately, I’ve been knowin’ ...view article
WHAT: 2nd ANNUAL LAST DAZE OF SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL WHERE: STERLING STAGE, 274 Kent Rd, Sterling NY 13156 WHEN: SEPT 18-20, 2009
"The Last Daze of Summer Festival is a modern day honoring of the harvest season and a grateful recognition to our roots both musically and culturally. This years ...view article
Famed drummer and Grateful Dead co-founder Bill Kreutzmann and voodoo guitar master Papa Mali come together as 7 Walkers for their self-titled debut release, due out November 2, 2010 on Response Records. With nearly all of its songs co-penned by ...view article
AUSTIN, Texas ˇŞ The Band of Heathens, whose current album One Foot in the Ether reached #1 on the Americana airplay charts and has won critical kudos from the indie-rock, alt-country and jam press alike, were nominated this week in the Americana Honors & Awards category of "Best Duo or ...view article
Celebrating 10 years of playing together, The Werks have put together one of their most exciting Werk Out Music & Arts Festival to date. Held at Legend Valley (just east of Columbus) on August 4-6, this seventh annual event features three nights of The Werks, along with STS9, Lettuce, two nights ...view article
When I was but a wee little fourth grader in Saint Paul, MN I worked on a group research project about a place that I had never seen and, as far as I was concerned, was too far away and too wild to possibly exist in the same universe. Yosemite National Park in California was about as distant to me ...view article