Steve Earle

I Just Sang With Some Rock Legends! (Video Below)

Remember when I told you about the Frankie's Friends benefit (to help sick pets) at the Cutting Room, where Emmylou Harris and Steve Earle were headlining? Well, it really happened on Tuesday night, both of those stars singing powerful, heartfelt country tunes to a roomful of rapt admirers. While ... More >>

'Woodyfest'

Live: David Johansen, Marianne Faithfull, And An All-Star Cast Pay Tribute To The Rolling Stones At Carnegie Hall

The Music of the Rolling Stones: Hot Rocks 1964-1971 Carnegie Hall Tuesday, March 13 Better than: Paying $300 to see The Stones. Okay, so maybe most of the audience was old enough to remember the first time they saw Mick Jagger shake his hips and lips on The Ed Sullivan Show. And a sea of salt-an ... More >>

Running The Numbers: The Four-Disc, 73-Track Bob Dylan Covers Comp With Miley, Ke$ha, Lenny, And Many Others

​Today Amnesty International releases Chimes Of Freedom, a really, really huge compilation of bob Dylan covers by artists both canonized and obscure. Trying to analyze such a huge undertaking can only be done in one way: Mathematically. Amount of music in this collection: 73 songs on four CD ... More >>

Steve Earle

Live: Justin Townes Earle Is Full Of Love At Prospect Park

Justin Townes Earle Celebrate Brooklyn! at Prospect Park Bandshell Thursday, June 30 Better than: Falling asleep on the subway and waking up at Coney Island. As Justin Townes Earle took the stage on Thursday night, the sun was setting over Prospect Park, the air was cool and thick, and the crowd ... More >>

Levon Helm Band

David Byrne and Fatboy Slim Pay Homage to Imelda Marcos

FEED YOUR MIND

People, your computer is no place to start 2010

Childsplay

Liturgy Are Somehow Playing the New Yorker Festival

​ The New Yorker Festival, the annual and upwardly-mobilely priced arts and culture series, has announced most of its 2009 line-up. The relevant, music-related graf in the press release: "Pop-music offerings will include interviews with and performances by Neko Case, Bon Iver, Steve Earle, an ... More >>

Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday Celebration at MSG with Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez, and Oscar the Grouch

Pete Seeger only turns 90 once, so why not have a big party? True to the folk singer's activist legacy, this packed Madison Square Garden celebration was a fundraiser for the Clearwater sloop and sailboat-centered foundation that Seeger built in 1969 to raise awareness about a then-near-dead Hudso ... More >>

Jimmy Breslin at KGB Bar tonight

Once a month, former Voicer and current New York scribe Mark "American Gangster" Jacobson puts on a racuous "radio" show at the KGB Bar on East 4th Street.We put "radio" in quotes for several reasons: not only does the program not go out over the air (a podcast is produced, which will promptly be bu ... More >>

Live: The Buoyant, Epic Odetta Memorial

Odetta Memorial Service Riverside Memorial Church Tuesday, February 24 "Odetta all by herself was a stimulus package," declared Reverend James Forbes, senior minister emeritus of the gorgeous, cavernous Riverside Memorial Church, at about the four-hour mark of the gala tribute to the titanic fol ... More >>

ODE TO THE NEW YEAR

Start ‘09 right with NYC’s finest performers

Steve Earle Goes Back to Church, Stays for About 2 1/2 Hours

Possibly 4th Street 16: Alabama 3 a/k/a A3

Lucero+Justin Townes Earle

The Gorgeous Ladies of Alt-Folk Wrestling

Triple-A sirens contemplate blood, oil, and coffee with varying degrees of enthusiasm

Broken Social Scene

Charting the permutations of avant-something NYC rock with Social Registry

CMJ: Pirate Had a Party, Day 2

The Evolution Starts Now

Steve Earle saunters into town; hopefully, Oakley Hall can teach him some new tricks

Marathon Men

Eno's Music for Airports at a 26-hour fete; Bright Eyes triumphantly caps a seven-night run

Music and September 11

Exit Stage Left

Earnest celebrities support the troops with jokes and anger

Get Your War Off

Susan Sarandon, Cindy Sheehan, and Peaches bring it home

Veterans, Grieving Families Give Somber Mood to Iraq War Protest

Men Like Them

Ignore the red states, red flags, and red herrings; Nashville’s less straight than you think

Web Radio Picks to Click

Inter-Century Freundschaft

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

Attack Dog Bites Man

Steve Earle weighs in on the issues that look like winners

Nobody Can Touch Him

Lots of heretofore unthinkable cover versions assure first place for the little British guy

Music

Braving the Land of the Free With Rockin' Daddy Steve Earle

The Long Road Home

The World’s Biggest Country Duo Risk Backlash With a Great Rock Album

Listings

Music

Attack of the Chickenshits

Steve Earle Practices Rock and Roll Leftism for Its Own Sweet Sake

Room for the Occasion

Working Professionals Defeat Doom on Two Benefit Comps

Music

Music

Dog Food for Justice

A Tribute to Art and a Tribute From the Heart

Christ’s Exemplars

Knight in White Spaghetti

Sweet Home Buttholesville

Sweet Home Buttholesvill

Roto-Roots Rock Flushes Your Troubles Down the Drain

As Not Seen on TV!

Perfect Beats

Consumer Guide