Tag Archives: The Reivers

Zeitgeist was a post-R.E.M. folk-rock music group hailing from Austin, TX, and led by guitarists/vocalists John Croslin and Kim Longacre. Nevertheless, after just one single record (1985’s Translate Gradually), the group was compelled with a Minneapolis percussion ensemble known as Zeitgeist to improve its name. The group became the Reivers …

While such groups as the White Stripes, the Black Keys, the Kills, as well as the Evens produced the idea of a guitar-and-drums duo fairly commonplace in the first 21st century, the thought of two guys building music without assistance from a bassist was considered unusual indeed when Bryan Harvey …

While often lumped along with such Southern alternative pop rings as R.E.M. and Let’s Energetic, Guadalcanal Journal was distinctly not the same as its peers, using a sound which was simultaneously melodic and rhythmically intense, along with a decidedly literary and religious bent towards the group’s lyrics. And at the …

Among the pioneering rings of the first alternative country picture, the Silos were the brainchild of vocalist, songwriter, and bandleader Walter Salas-Humara, who was simply given birth to in Florida to parents who have been exiled from Cuba. Salas-Humara started writing tracks while he was students at the College or …

The Reivers began their existence as Zeitgeist, among the many melodic, jangly pop rings to emerge from the fertile Austin, Tx music community through the 1980s. Led by performers/guitarists John Croslin and Kim Longacre, Zeitgeist debuted in 1985 using the recording Translate Slowly, including their cover of Willie Nelson’s “Blue …

Roots-pop combo the Vulgar Boatmen was led from the singing/songwriting group of Robert Ray and Dale Lawrence; surviving in Gainesville, FL and Indianapolis, IN, respectively, the duo collaborated mainly by email, each rehearsing with regional musicians (a few of them later on recruited for documenting sessions and travels aswell). Jim …

By combining two completely different affects, nearly like adding essential oil to drinking water, the Cruel Ocean created a method of rock and roll which extended Australian rock and roll & roll tradition and, at exactly the same time, made them probably one of the most successful Australian sets of …

Hank Vegas was the alter ego of singer, guitarist, and songwriter Chad Evans, who fronted an alt-country clothing billed seeing that Hank Vegas & the Light Lightning. Produced in Macon, GA, the music group slowly advanced from its country-rock origins into a even more R.E.M.-like jangle pop incarnation, however, and …