Lilly Hiatt at The Attic at The State Theatre, State College, PA (December 13th, 2025) In my house, we had an old Mason jar where we put all the spare bits and left over pieces of Lego sets, the small little cubes of hard plastic landmines that we stepped on in the middle of the […]
Greg Freeman at Globe Hall in Denver I’ve written a lot – some might say a little too much – about indie country this year. What I’ve called “the slightly disheveled city cousin to Americana’s country mouse” has provided some of the best songwriting in both the indie and country spheres in 2025. But there’s […]
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Madison Hughes at The Attic at The State Theatre, State College, PA (December 4th, 2025) By the time she had pulled into State College, Pennsylvania on the afternoon of December 4th, Madison Hughes was over a thousand miles — and six days — into her first solo tour. She arrived to find a college town […]
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Steve Martin & Martin Short feat. Jeff Babko and the Steep Canyon Rangers at the Palace Theatre in Albany, NY on December 4, 2025 To keep an audience engaged, invested, and entertained for two-hours is a near impossible feat, yet that is just what Steve Martin and Martin Short did on Thursday night’s sold out […]
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David Byrne at the Fox Theatre: A Night Where Art, Rhythm, and Americana Collide When I first considered covering David Byrne’s tour stop at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre, I wasn’t sure I could justify it. After all, Byrne and The Talking Heads have roots in new wave, punk, art rock—genres that sit a long way from […]
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The Jayhawks Bring Warmth, Craft, and Americana Glow to The Center for the Arts in Natick, Massachusetts. On November 23, Minneapolis’ Jayhawks were welcomed for the first time at TCAN’s intimate Natick stage, delivering a set that balanced ragged charm, immaculate harmonies, and the kind of lived-in musical chemistry that only decades together can produce. […]
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Mike Farris at Jammin’ Java on November 19 Mike Farris, with his vocals soaring to heights rivaling those of Aretha Franklin, played “an evening with” acoustic show in Jammin’ Java in Vienna, VA on November 19. The air was filled with bluesy and gospel-based songs with a soulful delivery and commanding vocals. At the start […]
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Will Hoge at Jammin’ Java with Dave Hause opening on Nov 14 Will Hoge played a full on rock ‘n roll show at Jammin’ Java with Dave Hause opening on both November 14 and 15. I checked out the show on the 14th, which, as it turns out, was also Will’s birthday, complete with ice […]
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José González Returns to Atlanta’s Variety Playhouse Music has a way of tagging certain years of life like invisible ink. For me, one of those marks came in 2006, when I first heard José González’s debut album Veneer and, especially, his intimate acoustic cover of The Knife’s “Heartbeats.” It felt like a secret played straight […]
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Jim Messina and the Road Runners at Cohoes Music Hall on Sunday November 16 2025 Jim Messina and his extraordinary backing band, the Road Runners, played a two-hour show in two sets on Sunday, November 16, 2025 at the Cohoes Music Hall in Cohoes, New York, that included a Poco tune and some of Messina’s […]
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