DeVotchKa, “the best band in America you’ve never heard of” according to Filter Magazine, has signed an exclusive deal with ANTI RECORDS for the European release of their much-praised album How It Ends. DeVotchKa are four musicians who have quietly become one of the most celebrated bands making music today. …
Who? This Brooklyn native has spent the last few years sharpening fork-tongued verbal skills over releases that deftly blend organic instrumentation with samples of everything from lo-fi folk and wah-wah funk to killer brass. Epitaph's ANTI- imprint issued Fite's lauded 2005 effort, Gone Ain't Gone. This year offers Fite's free …
EXCLAIM Magazine/June 2007 By Jason Schneider While he may be best known for discovering Dolly Parton and introducing her through their late '60s duets, Porter Wagoner has remained a pillar of the Grand Ole Opry, and one of the last bastions of the classic Nashville aesthetic. It's a bit surprising, …
Wild Countryman ~ By CHRIS MORRIS ~ When Marty Stuart joked on the Safari Sam’s stage last Sunday night that Lankershim Boulevard should be renamed Porter Wagoner Boulevard, he was probably making a reference to the old North Hollywood location of Nudie’s Western Wear. Wagoner – who was fronting Stuart’s …
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All hitched up and ready to roll By JONNY WHITESIDE LA WEEKLY It may seem odd that country singer Porter Wagoner, who has built a career on graphic examinations of matters of temperance, social morality and spiritual rectitude, dispenses his observations while sporting the gaudiest of sequin-and-rhinestone-encrusted Nudie suits. When …