There’s nothing quite like closing out a year with a bunch of heathens in our nation’s Capital. If not a bunch, then at least a band. The five-member Band of Heathens filled the main room at Hill Country Live on 7th Street and rocked a small but enthusiastic crowd into 2019. The Austin-based group performed […]
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Dusty-white silos and radio towers line the landscape outside of Thurber, Texas. Once a bustling coal mining outcamp, ghost towns and a giant smokestack are all that remain. A golden-yellow flame soars out from an oil pipeline, burning chemical waste into the dark gray fog. The drizzling rain hardly seems to make an impact. Larry […]
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It’s not every day you get to see a universally acknowledged master of his craft do his thing. At 78 (!) Delbert McClinton may no longer be at the very top of his game — though he’s still impressively close to it — but the Texas roadhouse blues master put on an energetic and memorable […]
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For the past several years, between Thanksgiving and Christmas, Los Lobos have come east to play a series of multiple night residencies at City Winery, the rapidly expanding venue that added Washington, D.C. to its stable in 2018. The six-member band arrived in the nation’s Capital on the Friday before Christmas for a two-night […]
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“This is probably the last show we’ll ever play some of these songs.” Steve Earle and the Dukes brought the finale of their 30th anniversary tour of “Copperhead Road” to OKC’s Tower Theatre last week. Honestly, one almost got the impression that Earle is glad to be shelving some of this material again. Though, […]
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‘Damn good gig, good damn crowd Good God, for cryin’ out loud Coming off stage I was mighty proud Then I don’t know what happened’ I don’t claim to know what happened next either, but every other line of this verse of Tyler Childers’ song “I Swear To God” was spot on. It was […]
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On December 12th, 2018, Oklahoma-based red dirt band Turnpike Troubadours brought their best faces to Richmond Virginia’s acclaimed music venue The National. The show was one of the first stops on their East Coast tour, and the band delivered an absolutely impressive performance. This was my third time seeing Turnpike Troubadours, and this was by […]
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Ian Moore at the Blue Door in OKC? Heck yeah. Count me in. With that said, I really didn’t know what to expect. Certainly, what was experienced was beyond the realm of my expectations anyway and anyhow. I had initially expected this to be a full band show. I was wrong in assuming so. Rather, […]
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Marah’s Christmas shows are justifiably legendary. Now based in central PA but originally hailing from the Conshohocken area of Philadelphia, the band clearly knows how to throw a kickin’ party. This year’s festivities were held at the City of Brotherly Love’s Underground Arts, a dark, industrial basement venue that probably hasn’t experienced such pure musical […]
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Today’s concert goers crave community and connection. They are getting their fix in a plethora of new or revitalized venues across DC. The Wharf’s Pearl Street Warehouse and Union Stage are two such examples. In music venues such as these, the fractured and divisive rhetoric so prevalent in the city as a whole gives way […]
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