SOMETIME LAST NIGHT: R5’s SECOND ALBUM Alan Sculley February 9, 2016 Features, Music 10 Comments SOMETIME LAST NIGHT: R5's SECOND ALBUM R5’S SECOND FULL-LENGTH ALBUM, “Sometime Last Night,” arrived last July. A new album is notable, but the bigger news is the group came close to releasing an...
TUSCAOOSA AMPHITHEATER ANNOUNCING SUMMER CONCERT SERIES! Susan Ryder January 26, 2016 Music 9 Comments TUSCAOOSA AMPHITHEATER ANNOUNCING SUMMER CONCERT SERIES! The summer concert announcements are coming in quickly with the addition of last week Darius Rucker in June and now Chris Young will be in town...
AMY MCCARLEY RETURNS TO BAMA THEATRE FOR ACOUSTIC NIGHT Susan Ryder January 21, 2016 Arts, Features, Music 13 Comments AMY MCCARLEY RETURNS TO BAMA THEATRE FOR ACOUSTIC NIGHT Singer-songwriter Amy McCarley will be the featured artist in a performance on Acoustic Night on Feb. 14, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. at the Bama Theatre....
Interview with YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND Alan Sculley January 21, 2016 Features, Music 9 Comments YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND Adam Aijala says Yonder Mountain String Band has never been a group to plot out its career – or just about anything the group does. To hear him tell it, there was no strategy...
GRACE POTTER // KICKING UP THE DUST Alan Sculley January 6, 2016 Features, Music, Reviews 14 Comments GRACE POTTER // KICKING UP THE DUST During the two years that went into making her new album, “Midnight,” Grace Potter realized a game-changing truth about herself. “I figured out that I’m here for...
FERGUSON AND THE COPPER DOGS Alejandra Tenorio January 6, 2016 Music 6 Comments FERGUSON AND THE COPPER DOGS Inside Druid City Brewing, Tusca-loosa’s original craft brewery, whose walls are painted bright yellow and decor includes original 90’s gaming systems, musical legend’s...
WHO IS ONE HAND DAN? Alejandra Tenorio December 4, 2015 Features, Music 13 Comments Wearing a slightly discolored, worn out pac-man graphic tee, Dan Russell made his way through the Park at Manderson Landing - Riverwalk with his guitar hanging off his shoulder and amp in hand. With a...
Interview with Dale Waltson By L. Kent Wolgamott Alan Sculley November 30, 2015 Features, Music 13 Comments Interview with Dale Waltson By L. Kent Wolgamott For years, Texas honky tonker Dale Watson watched as his brand of country music was pushed to the margins in Nashville as the Music City labels pumped out...
HANGING OUT // LOGAN BOWDEN Alejandra Tenorio November 19, 2015 Features, Music 5 Comments In a town that is deeply immersed in sports, some might not see Tuscaloosa as the place one comes to find and develop their artistic “vein” but for 22-year-old and senior at The University of Alabama,...
GALACTIC // A NEW LIGHT Alan Sculley November 17, 2015 Features, Music 13 Comments GALACTIC // A NEW LIGHT If you’re a fan of Galactic’s early albums, sax player Ben Ellman thinks you’re going to like what you hear from the group’s new album, “into The Deep.” “It’s a...
