After touring with each other for years, Earlimart and Grandaddy decided to link up after long tinkering with the idea of collaborating musically. Finally, Aaron Espinoza and Ariana Murray of Earlimart and Jason Lytle and Aaron Burtch of Grandaddy joined together. After considering the names Earlidaddy and Grandimart, they settled on Admiral Radley, an [...]

The title of Jenny Owen Youngs’ Tumblr blog page reads, “Oh hey, I didn’t see you there. Hello. My name is Jenny and I write songs, record stuff, go on tour, and have tons of girl-feelings…sometimes all at once. Whee.”
Sounds about right. Her first record, Batten The Hatches, was self-released in 2005 before Nettwerk re-released [...]

When I think of Christmas albums and Christmas songs, I think of choral groups, harps, classy old crooners like Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, and newer embarrassments to anything respectable about music such as Celine Dion and Michael Bolton. Things Moms listen to. The last thing I think of is rock ‘n’ roll and punk [...]

Unless you’re well-versed in Mother Goose, you’re probably like me and you’ve never heard the nursery rhyme of the bell horses. Long before people and goods were transported by car and diesel trucks along major highways, horses pulled wagons along narrow roads. And before there were headlights, the only thing that could prevent passing wagons [...]