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Live: Big Boi Does The Hits At Brooklyn Bowl

​Don't bother requesting anything, he's already gonna play it​Big Boi Brooklyn Bowl Monday, September 6 Better than: The vast majority of other greatest-hits sets performed in bowling alleys. So Big Boi, as someone in his management circle is explaining before tonight's festivities beg ... More >>

Drive-By Truckers Playing NYC On New Year's Eve, Plotting Something "Ridiculously Over-The-Top And Cool"

​Yes, New Year's Eve, that magical evening of at least slightly overpriced parties that nonetheless hold out the possibility of an epochal, champagne-fueled, surprise-guest-besotted, properly year-christening blowout. There are hundreds to choose from; the Drive-By Truckers, we are beginning t ... More >>

Live: The Drive-By Truckers Reek Of "Dude" At Webster Hall

Drive-By Truckers Webster Hall Thursday, April 1 I admire these dudes (who appear in these pages, virtual and literal, with alarming frequency) for distilling complicated societal ills into one compact, blunt, blaring, paradoxically rousing burst of Southern rock: What "The Man I Shot" did for th ... More >>

Spring Guide: Londoners the xx and More

Enjoying American top-10 lists with the hit Brits

The Drive-By Truckers Are Not Making This Up

The Big To-Do continues their mastery of current Southern affairs

Booker T. Jones, Man at Work

The indomitable MG finally embraces his inner surly rock star

How M.I.A. (and America) Got Her Swagger Back

The menace of "Paper Planes" trumps the frivolity of "American Boy." Both are good signs.

Cautious Revelry at the Hold Steady/Drive-By Truckers Blowout

Another Take on Obamamania

SHE

Rock & roll remains the Truckers' elusive lover

This Week's Voice: Ice-T and Richard Hell on the Election, They Might Be Giants, Craig Finn, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, and More

The Hold Steady/Drive-By Truckers Post-Election Rock 'n' Roll Hangover

Will their November double-bill be a fiesta or a wake?

BARE JR. JES’ GREW

And so does Southern rock in turn

Fuck a Blog: Drive-By Truckers

The Drive-By Truckers' Worst Song, Played on the Ugliest Guitar

How an appalling tune will finally make you appreciate them

Keep on Trucking

Semi-unreconstructed Southern rockers keep playing the only thing worth playing

When to Say When

Sundry New South up-and-comers turn lifers before our very ears, and survive it to boot

Inter-Century Freundschaft

Where the fuck is for example the Z100, gangsta-rock, and Merina-Senegalese fusion?

Squirt You

August precedents, timely details, and timeless novelties you will find nowhere else

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