Ok, I’m tired of bumming you out with my JOTDs/PJOTDs (seriously, enough sad bastard music for a week, right?). So, today, I give you an awesome summer song from a lovely British singer-songwriter, Leona Naess, from her 2009 album, Thirteens. You might know Naess from when she opened a few shows for Ryan Adams/Ray LaMontagne … Read more
Earlier this month, our friends at TwentyFourBit gave us the good word that Ray LaMontagne’s upcoming fourth LP had a title, release date, and all that other jazz that makes us act the fool where new music is concerned. For this effort, God Willin’ & the Creek Don’t Rise (God, I love that saying), LaMontagne … Read more
Speakers Rating: 88/100 “I’m tired of saying that I won’t get lost ever again/ Who knows? Maybe I will…” These are the first two lines from “Record Collector,” track one off Lissie’s debut album, Catching a Tiger (produced by Jacquire King and Bill Reynolds and out 8/17 in the States). I think there’s a massive … Read more
All photos by Tim Bottchen Ray Lamontagne performed songs from his 2014 release, Supernova, on Wednesday night at The Fox Theatre. Please enjoy Tim Bottchen’s shots of the show, and be sure to visit his site here.
Photo by Matt Barnes Other artists in recent memory (Ray LaMontagne’s “Meg White” comes to mind) have gone cowboy on us, but no one so blatantly states his Wild West ambitions like Jason Collett: he wants to rob a bank. Yup, this Canadian outlaw aspires to be like Jesse James, seconding that emotion made so … Read more