Music

THURSDAY JULY 24 Buck Wild, Rhythm & Brews Motherfunk, Rounders Freshwater Duo , Copper Top Pen Pals, Green Bar To Kill a Mockingbird, Innisfree FRIDAY, JULY 25 Uri, Copper Top Matt Bennett...

July 16th brought America closer to the end of an era. As the years go on, the country loses more and more artists who forged one of the most influential genres of American popular music: blues. Born in...

UMPHREY'S MCGEE RETURNS TO TUSCALOOSA // FROM THE BAMA TO THE AMP It’s an interesting thing when you can quite literally watch an artist grow. Sometimes the ascent is quite rapid. Many in Tuscaloosa can...

FAN FOLLOWING // PHOTOGRAPHER INSPIRED BY THE BLUES // PW INSPIRED BY THE PHOTOG Staff from the Planet Weekly had the opportunity, recently, to attend a performance of the Debbie Bond Trio in the...

IT MUST HAVE BEEN THOSE TONEY BOYS // A LOCAL BAND RETURNS Where they come from, the Toney Boys have a reputation for mischief. “Growing up, we tended to get in trouble,” Glenn Toney said. “One time...

TUESDAY, JUNE 17 Plato Jones, Coppertop THURSDAY, JUNE 19 Benjamin Hoefling, Green Bar Matt Bennett Trio, Rounders URI, Rhythm & Brews FRIDAY, JUNE 20 Velcro Pygmies, Rhythm &...

JOY DIVISION // THE LITTLE-KNOWN MASTERPIECE In August of 1979 an album was released under the Factory label out of Manchester, England that contained a sound so fresh, so innovative, that at first one...

IT WAS DOWN HOME AND JUST RIGHT // THE FREEDOM CREEK BLUES FESTIVAL Annually, the Freedom Creek Blues Festival offers an opportunity to enjoy genuine blues performed in an outdoor, rural setting that is in...

DAD RAP // HIP HOP HEROES GOING GRAY In any music scene there is a place for folks just looking to enjoy the sounds of the glory days. For any one year of rock music you can find a fan who insists that was...

LOCAL MUSIC – MAY 29 – JUNE 12 THURSDAY MAY 29 Snazz/crawfish eating contest, Rhythm & Brews Tequila Mockingbird, Innisfree Wyatt Edmundson Duo, Green Bar Rob Wright, Rounders FRIDAY, MAY...