Bluegrass

Lt. Ed Bankston Talks About the Obscure Album Released in 1983 By His Band The Red Rippers

"It's all a big surprise to me," says Ed Bankston, 60, talking on the phone from his home in Phoenix, Arizona. "It's like the ghost of Christmas past has shown up." In 1983, the songwriter and guitarist Bankston started a label called Oracle Records to self-release Over There... and Over Here, the f ... More >>

Del McCoury & Sam Bush

Cast In Concrete #5: Taking In Bluegrass While Sitting On Prospect Park's Grass

Cast In Concrete tracks Vijith Assar as he records New York City's street musicians. If you'll be busking nearby soon and would like to appear in a future installment, please let him know. Who: Five dudes and one woman who do not have an official name When: July 2, 9 p.m. Where: Prospect Park, Grea ... More >>

The Del McCoury Band+Cahalen Morrison and Eli West+Spirit Family Reunion

The Punch Brothers

Yonder Mountain String Band

Punch Brothers

Download: Seabrook Power Plant's Bonkers Banjo Shredfest "Lamborghini Helicopter"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​The demented power trio Seabrook Power Plant crosses many boundaries -- math-metal, art-prog, jazz, bluegrass -- but one thing remains deliriously constant: This dude can shred. The demented, frazzl ... More >>

Black Prairie

The Eerie Relief of Sam Amidon

The gentle, affable, bewildering young folkie banters bizarrely, covers R. Kelly beautifully

ELVIS IS IN THE PALACE

What's so funny 'bout bluegrass? Don't answer that.

Yonder Mountain String Band+Railroad Earth+Danny Barnes

Steve Martin on Playing the Banjo Live: "I Would Be Much More Nervous If I Were Doing Comedy."

Steve Martin headlines Carnegie Hall tonight, but he won't be stepping onstage with a fake arrow through his head. That sort of behavior is best left in the past, an era that "if you're under 30, you never even had a chance to see," Martin says on a teleconference call from Los Angeles. However, t ... More >>

Peter Stampfel & the Ether Frolic Mob

STRING MACHINE

Classical strings meet an unlikely match

Live on the LES with the Punch Brothers

On five wily, omnivorous bluegrass titans

Throw Down Your Heart Places Banjo, and Béla Fleck, in Africa

Zakir Hussain, Bela Fleck & Edgar Meyer

CREEP SHOW

The freaks come out at night, and they're dressed!

Bonnaroo Day 4: Broken Social Scene, Jakob Dylan, Aimee Mann, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Tonight and Tomorrow at MSG Theater

Talking with Robert Plant

Touring the South, the legend talks about Led Zep and Alison Krauss. Mostly Krauss.

The 'Grass Grows Greener on the LES

Bluegrass jams take hold in Manhattan, amateur pickers both invited and encouraged

Shawn Camp & Billy Burnette's The Bluegrass Elvises, Vol. 1

The King, all wryly shook up

Bluegrass Solution

Missouri chanteuse revives a great American songbook

Country in the City

As Nashville invades New York, a home-grown hayseed scene thrives beneath the CMA's radar

Not Just Bluegrass

San Diego emo-grassers, funky fresh Canucks, old-timey Brooklynites transcend their fiddles and banjos

Noise on Music Central

From minstrelsy to vaudeville and Monk to punk, never under-estimate urban ugliness

Nickel Creeker finds life way beyond bluegrass

Garage Daze

Girls Take Center Stage in Their Own 'Warped Tour' Spin-0ff and Other Shows Around the City

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Live/Dead

Dream of a Miner’s Child

Salmon, String Cheese, and Jam

Bluegrass Pizza: Like Those Hippies Out in Colorado Do

The Ghost in the CD

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Bill Frisell and the Willies

Perfect Beats

Accepted

Betwixt and Downtown