REVEREND HORTON HEAT // GENERAL ZANINESS Alan Sculley October 26, 2015 Music 1 Comment REVEREND HORTON HEAT // GENERAL ZANINESS Fans of the Reverend Horton Heat haven’t exactly been flooded with new music from the band lately. After cranking out eight studio albums over the first 13 years...
JASON ISBELL // A CHANGED MAN Alan Sculley October 26, 2015 Features, Music JASON ISBELL // A CHANGED MAN When Jason Isbell walks on stage these days, fans are quite literally seeing a changed man. In January 2012, Isbell went into rehab to kick an alcohol addiction that had been...
CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD Alan Sculley October 14, 2015 Features, Music 2 Comments CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD In this day and age, lots of bands get their start through social media – posting self-made videos of songs on You Tube, while using other sites, such as Facebook and Myspace, to...
Interview with RHIANNON GIDDENS Alan Sculley September 16, 2015 Music Interview with RHIANNON GIDDENS If there’s one word Rhiannon Giddens detests, it’s genres. Classically trained in opera at Oberlin University, she moved on to a whole different style of music in becoming...
An interview with LADY ANTEBELLUM Alan Sculley August 27, 2015 Features, Music 2 Comments An interview with LADY ANTEBELLUM Dave Haywood, guitarist/keyboardist for Lady Antebellum, readily says the kind of songs that come most naturally to the group are ballads and mid-tempo songs. That has...
INTERVIEW WITH DRIVE BY TRUCKERS Alan Sculley August 18, 2015 Features, Music Interview with Drive By Truckers The last time the Drive-By Truckers went into the studio to record new music - a session that yielded two albums, 2010’s “The Big To-Do” and 2011’s “Go-Go...
ALABAMA SHAKES // SOUND & COLOR Alan Sculley August 18, 2015 Features, Music 3 Comments ALABAMA SHAKES // SOUND & COLOR Alabama Shakes’ new album, “Sound & Color.” is one of the boldest second albums in recent years, taking the fairly straightforward (but stirring) blues and soul...
311 // STEREOLITHIC Alan Sculley July 23, 2015 Features, Music 1 Comment 311 // STEREOLITHIC If 311 had one plan of action going into the making of its current album, “Stereolithic,” it was not to have a game plan. “Our manager was trying to get us to sit down and talk...
WHO TALKS MUSIC, FAME, LOVING HERSELF Alan Sculley July 13, 2015 Entertainment, Music 3 Comments WHO TALKS MUSIC, FAME, LOVING HERSELF In 2013, Spencer Spout had a plan. He would send his boyfriend Dustin to their local Home Depot in Salt Lake City, Utah to pick up some lights for a party. Once inside,...
DIERKS BENTLEY // RISER Alan Sculley July 13, 2015 Features, Music DIERKS BENTLEY // RISER “Riser,” the latest album from Dierks Bentley, is being lauded for its collection of mid-tempo tunes and ballads that find Bentley digging deeper than ever emotionally – a...