Seeing an artist in concert when she only has one album to her name is always a risk, even when she's damn good. Why? One word: filler. You'd be hard-pressed to find a popular musician who doesn't pad his or her albums with bland toss-offs, and the sin of filler is easy to forgive ...
For the past decade, the standard fare of the jam band scene has come from bands trying to establish themselves as heirs to the thrones abdicated by the Grateful Dead and Phish. While acts like Umphreys McGee and STS9 certainly have attempted to push the genre in new directions, it can become difficult ...
It won't take you one hundred days and one hundred nights to know that Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings is the real deal. These grooving gurus run at the forefront of a movement to revive the funk and soul styles of the late sixties and early seventies — a time widely referred to as the genre's ...
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