This week on the Trail turntable: • We hadn’t heard of either one of them, but apparently it’s a big deal that Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore have collaborated at long last. The former is the founding guitarist for ’80s roots-rock band, The Blasters; the latter is a West Texas country pioneer, formerly of […]
New Tracks – 7/24
Some of our favorite flicks are musical biopics: “Ray”, “Love & Mercy”, “Miss Sharon Jones!”, to name a few. That said, we know it’s hit-and-go. There’s been some bad ones, too. “Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story” anyone? No? So when we learned earlier this month that Paramount Pictures had purchased the rights to a new […]
Vinally Friday – 11/10
Critics tore into them for ripping off pop bands past. But it turns out the Smithereens were really ripping off pretty much the entire ’90s rock scene with their crunchy, mod-inspired soundtrack to the mid-1980s. The New Jersey rock band has unabashedly paid sonic tribute to their biggest influences – Buddy Holly, Elvis Costello, the […]
Vinally Friday – 9/30
The studio didn’t want it, his fans didn’t want it – but none of that stopped Neil Young from recording an explicitly country album – twang and all – in 1985. For this week’s Vinally Friday, Craig will features the Canadian rock legend’s fourteenth studio work, Old Ways. Sure, Young had ventured into country territory […]
