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News + Notes Nellie McKay: Project Nellie
“I’m going to do my best with my diminishing reputation,” says a nervous Nellie McKay, positioning herself behind a piano in the NPR studios in D.C. and attempting to write and record a song from scratch in two days (or so) as part…
News + Notes Anthology Recordings: Obscurity Knocks
(AnthologyRecordings.com), but he admits he’s not crazy about the medium. “I would rather listen to an LP than an MP3,” the avid vinyl collector says, “but at the same time, there aren’t that many people out there willing to pay crazy…
News + Notes Waco Brothers: Cowpunk & Disorderly
Since 1994, Anglo-American roots rockers the Waco Brothers have been charter members of Bloodshot Records’ “insurgent country” army. The Mekons offshoot’s alcohol-fueled, sometimes-shambolic onstage antics have become the stuff of…
More Departments from Mar/Apr 2008
10 Things
Field Notes
Fresh Faces
Indelibles
Joyrides
News + Notes
- Chapin Sisters: Songwriters We’d Like to Get to Know Better
- Found Magazine: Lost and Found
- Sons & Daughters: Return This Gift
- Matthew Ryan: Working Class Hero
- Jim White: Mr. Natural
- Anthology Recordings: Vinylized & Digitized
- Stephin Merritt: Blunt Object
- The Twang, The Parson Red Heads, The Pendletons: Harp Endorsed!
- Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks: Papa’s Got a Brand New Band
- The Kills: Boom, Boom, Boom
- Shelby Lynne: Dusty Memories
- Marah: Don’t Go Home Again
- Martin Atkins: Chinese Rocks
- Thao Nguyen: Pain In The Ass
- The Whigs: Post-Graduate Emissions
- Rademacher: Life on the Fres
Q&A Session
Screentime
- The Wire’s George Pelecanos: Wired For Sound
- Such Hawks Such Hounds: A Flock of Elephants
- Radar Bros.: “When Cold Air Goes To Sleep”
- Human Giant: Giant Laughs
Shortcuts
- Kathleen Edwards: This Mortal Coil
- Kathleen Edwards: Just A Stage
- Howlin Rain: This Rain Is a Baptism
