Sharon Van Etten To these ears, the strongest bill top to bottom at this year’s Adventures in Modern Music festival (copresented, as always, by the Wire magazine and the Empty Bottle) is Thursday night. In this week’s paper I wrote about DJ/Rupture & Andy Moor and Hanne Hukkelberg, who play the night’s last two sets. […]
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The Hierarchy of Beards Explained
A useful beard taxonomy for concertgoers and others
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Alasdair Roberts, MV & EE Medicine Show
On the new No Earthly Man (Drag City), Glaswegian singer and guitarist Alasdair Roberts completes a years-long metamorphosis: British Isles folk has rippled through his work ever since he formed the group Appendix Out in the mid-90s, but now he’s wholly submerged in the role of Brit-folk archaeologist, historian, and synthesist. None of the new […]
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Alasdair Roberts
Alasdair Roberts declared his love for British folk music in 2001 with The Crook of My Arm (Secretly Canadian), an acoustic solo album of songs he learned from the likes of Shirley Collins, Dick Gaughan, and Anne Briggs. At the time it seemed like a tangential ramble off the path his folk-rock band Appendix Out […]
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Alejandra & Aeron
As the proprietors of the Lucky Kitchen label, Alejandra Salinas and Aeron Bergman have released recordings by everyone from local bassist Josh Abrams to big-deal sound artist Stephen Vitiello. But the couple’s own releases are little marvels of packaging that blend music, audio verite, fiction, and visual art. The Tale of Pip (which just received […]
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Africa Fete
Haiti’s Boukman Eksperyans has demonstrated an impressive ability to weather adversity. Last summer the group’s bassist Michael Melthon Lynch died of bacterial meningitis; antibiotics that could have saved him were unavailable in Haiti due to the U.S. embargo that followed the overthrow of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Shortly thereafter the group found themselves stranded in the middle […]