Tagged americana

The morning of April 1st, Alynda Segarra, lead singer of Hurray for the Riff Raff, tweeted:   used to sleep in golden gate park, playing august hall tonight — hurray for the riff raff (@HFTRR...

“Please no more therapy, mother take care of me.” This was the original plea that snapped my head around and had me scrambling to shuffle Shawn Colvin’s entire discography. From those first strains of ...

Recently, I’ve been spending a great deal of my algorithm-guided time online obsessing over the idea of absolution. I’m not the only one. Over the past couple of months, there’s been an alarming rise in i...

Rayland Baxter is the perfect mix of singer-songwriter, psychedelic rock, and country. His songs are sickeningly sweet, a tad-bit whimsical, and just the right kind of rowdy. Baxter brought his eclectic mix to ...

The legend that is now Woody Guthrie was then, in the late 1930s, in his twenties. When the depression hit, the Oklahoma native headed west. He landed in California, on a specialty show with musical counter...

Arriving on the winds of The Weatherman (2013), South African-born Colorado-based Gregory Alan Isakov will grace The Fillmore this Thursday night with a performance in celebration of this acclaimed album. ...