All in all, The Whole Love is Wilco’s finest effort in some time. While the previous two albums did range from good-to-great they didn’t quite pack the punch that made albums like Summerteeth, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, and even A Ghost is Born so memorable. The Whole Love finds them returning to some of their roots [...]

The Civil Wars memorized the audience at a sold out show in The Brown Theater Friday evening. The duo of Joy Williams and John Paul White entertained mostly with only their amazing vocals and White’s guitar. Williams spend a handful of songs on the keyboards but this show  was all about  mixing two incredible voices sharing leads [...]

Thanks to CoC: In 1978, with their reputation starting to dwindle among music critics, and punk rock threatening to eliminate any cultural significance they had left, The Rolling Stones released Some Girls. Overloaded with the sex-fueled swagger that they’d built their sound around from the beginning and showcasing new influences from dance music and even the [...]

Thanks to Premier Guitar : I love it when synergies between old and new technologies yield cool discoveries. Take, for instance, my delight when I was driving home one night recently and heard a rippingly badass tune on the local NPR affiliate. It began with Native American-like hand drums running through a filter th at made them sound [...]

Iowa City’s Mission Creek Festival Announces Additional Artists Featuring: The Magnetic Fields, David Cross, Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, William Elliott Whitmore, Justin Townes Earle, Tim Hecker, Black Milk, Sharon Van Etten, Bowerbirds, and many more. The Mission Creek Festival makes its second announcement of artists for this year’s festival. The new acts scheduled to [...]

Ed Anderson and Scott Tipping have been making music and mayhem together since the late ’90s, when they hosted an open mic featuring drunken jazz artists, angry poets and puppeteers. Ed moved on to found roots rock trio Backyard Tire Fire in 2001. Through the 2000s, the band toured relentlessly, recording 5 albums and 2 [...]