Tag Archives: Alternative Country-Rock

From her start within the post-punk group Neon Veins as well as the industrial outfit Ethyl Meatplow to her later use the Geraldine Fibbers, Scarnella, and on her behalf own, Carla Bozulich’s eclectic music is united by an honesty and intensity that’s often unflinching, and always compelling. The Los Angeles-based …

Best known because the vocalist for X, among the leaders from the later-’70s/early-’80s California punk explosion, Exene Cervenka in addition has issued single albums, launched many aspect rings, and penned books. Although Cervenka continues to be closely connected with California for a long period, she is not really originally in …

The Brooklyn-based duo Parlor Wayne pitted the crystalline tenor of Ryan Hedgecock (the founder of roots rockers Lone Justice) contrary to the rootsy twang of Amy Allison (child of jazz great Mose Allison) to make a gothic sound steeped within the traditions of country vocal harmony. The set 1st teamed …

Guitarist/vocalist/composer Dusty Wright occupies an odd market in music, in line with the selection of his function, which encompasses from Byrds-like psychedelic folk excursions to dense, dark-toned feeling items that recall the John Cale period within the Velvet Underground’s background. Indeed, hearing some his recordings simultaneously, one has got the …

The band of musicians that eventually formed the Clumsy Enthusiasts didn’t really plan to take up a band. They’d simply play out around their house foundation of Vancouver, rotating their folky, frequently riotous undertake rock and roll in pubs, basements, and garden celebrations. But people observed and beginning clamoring for …

Reared in Austin, Tx, and schooled at Boston’s Berklee University of Music, the fiddle-playing singer/songwriter Carrie Rodriguez produced her documenting debut in 2002 by adding to Chip Taylor’s Let’s Keep This City. Taylor had initial heard Rodriguez on the 2001 South by Southwest meeting and subsequently asked her to tour …

Los Angeles-based cosmic country-pop combo Beachwood Sparks were formed in mid-1998 by onetime Strictly Ballroom singer/guitarist Chris Gunst, glide guitarist/keyboardist Dave Scher, ex-Further bassist Brent Rademaker, and Lilys drummer Aaron Sperske. Motivated with the pioneering country-rock initiatives of West Coastline legends just like the Byrds, the Traveling Burrito Brothers, and …

The Minneapolis-based alternative country-rock quartet Bellwether was led by singer/guitarist Eric Luoma and guitarist Jimmy Peterson, who first collaborated as an acoustic duo before recruiting bassist Phil Tippin and drummer John Crist, a former person in the Athens, Georgia band Dashboard Saviors. Their debut LP Turnstiles was released on the …

With her earthy, bluesy voice and fresh, unbridled method of songwriting, Shannon McNally carries the fantastic blues and blues-rock tradition to new generations of fans who already appreciate bands just like the North Mississippi All Stars, Warren Haynes, among others who’ve gained footholds within the jam band and blues festival …

Nashville indigenous Florence Dore used various punk, rock and roll and country rings for 15 years before slicing her initial LP Perfect Town. An educational by day time, Dore pursued her music profession while generating a doctoral level in American books. Her dissertation was on modernism within the American book …