As a longtime R.E.M. fan, singer-songwriter Matt Tarka says it was sublime to have Mitch Easter (who co-produced the band’s first two albums) play a key role [click here to continue]
With four songwriters in Hootie and the Blowfish, guitarist Mark Bryan says there was always a surplus of material to consider for the band’s studio albums. [click here to continue]
For many people, the 2012 film Searching for Sugar Man was their introduction to the music of Sixto Rodriguez. Not Davey Ray Moor and Liam McKahey, who were [click here to continue]
For its first album, Elliot Root could have easily pulled songs from the band’s three EPs and filled out the collection by tacking on a few new recordings. [click here to continue]
Over the past decade, Lee Roy Parnell had plenty going on personally and professionally, but making a follow-up to 2006’s Back to the Wall was not high on [click here to continue]
To commit to a band takes a lot, says Cold Roses founder Rob Clancy, so he’s understood whenever a member has left his Philadelphia-based group. “They have [click here to continue]
What he knew and who he knew played a big part in Ed Stasium hooking up with the Ramones as a studio mainstay for the pioneering punk band, starting with [click here to continue]
There’s never really been a period of time when the music from Oakland, California, was given a world-recognized name a la “the San Francisco sound.” And [click here to continue]
The world probably doesn’t need another term for nonmainstream country music, admits Ben Bostick, but the singer-guitarist has his reasons for dubbing what [click here to continue]
Bluegrass isn’t exactly synonymous with Boston, nor does the genre immediately come to mind when the city’s Berklee College of Music is mentioned. But [click here to continue]
