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It’s Time to Party

Several years ago, a solo singer-songwriter with long, greasy hair, a five o'clock shadow - and a body frame that otherwise would have qualified...

Various Artists

Taking its name from revolutionary rebels in Nicaragua, Sandinista!, The Clash’s groundbreaking album from 1980, is “an exciting, sprawling mess,” according to writer Jimmy...

It’s Time to Party

Several years ago, a solo singer-songwriter with long, greasy hair, a five o’clock shadow — and a body frame that otherwise would have qualified...

Watermelon Slim & the Workers

Watermelon Slim is an ex-reporter, ex-sanitation truck driver, ex-lots-of-jobs bluesman and Vietnam vet who quit the “real world” after a heart attack in 2002...

Anjani

“There’s perfume burning in the air / Bits of beauty everywhere,” sings jazz pianist-vocalist Anjani on the opener to Blue Alert, her third album....

Oliver Future

Oliver Future maybe may be the hardest-working unsigned band around. They’ve committed themselves to the stage, the road, and the studio as ferociously as...

Song of Himself

The next time Texas balladeer Steven Fromholz performs here, you might be snapping your fingers rather than applauding. “I will be dressing all in black...

Various artists Duets: A Prairie Home Companion

Prairie Home Companion is such a good radio show that you’d expect songs from the show to be special too. But the choices on...

For the Children

Last Saturday at 6th Street Live, some marquee rawkers piled into the Westside club to do that thing they do and also to raise...

John Denver

John Denver was a consistently — some would say mercilessly — sweet and upbeat-sounding performer, even on his sad songs. The best of his hits...