Music

DRUID CITY MUSIC HALL ANNOUNCES FIRST SHOWS AT NEW CONCERT & EVENT SPACE Moon Taxi to Headline First Concert on August 26th   Druid City Music Hall has announced the first concerts at the new...

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 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 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 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 “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...

SUMMER SHINDIG MUSIC FESTIVAL // ROUND TWO Returning for its third year, the Summer Shindig music festival is becoming synonymous with summer in Tuscaloosa. Soapy Jones, owner of The Left Hand Soap Company...

BANDITOS // RIP-ROARING DEBUT Banditos’ self-titled debut is a rowdy, rollicking good time, a totally uninhibited collision course of Appalachian twang, rock ‘n’ roll swagger, blues throb, punk snarl...

HOT MUSIC, RAGMENTATION, AND THE BLUING OF AMERICAN LITERATURE Exploring the deep and enduring relationship between music and literature, Hot Music, Ragmentation, and the Bluing of American Literature...

ICELANDIC FOLK-ROCK BAND KALEO // COMING TO SLOSS FEST Even though the international appeal of the blues was never in doubt—not since the British Invasion, at least—the recent successes of the...