Not So Underground

Before the Black Keys and White Stripes, there was the Flat Duo Jets. The Keys and Stripes may be the most well known guitar/drum duos in rock, but the Jets…

OAKLEY – The 20th Century Theater does not look like a typical rock-show venue. The 1941 building originally opened as a state-of-the-art movie theater and today hosts the occasional concert…

Justin Townes Earle performs at Newport’s Southgate House on May 29. Joshua Black Wilkins hit the stage at Southgate House as the sun was still streaming through the venue’s chipped…

The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival may not be easily explained to the uninitiated. The idea of spending four days camping in the brutal heat of June in Tennessee may…

  Producer/multi-instrumentalist Larry Campbell discusses the making of “Electric Dirt,” Midnight Rambles and working with a musical icon Levon Helm is an American music treasure. Helm’s work with The Band…

  Old Crow Medicine Show’s multi-instrumentalist Ketch Secor knows exactly what shaped him musically. “It was all about this record collection up in the attic,” Secor said. “It was a…

Sam Bush has traveled a long road in his four decades in the music business. From his early days as a member of New Grass Revival to his days as…

Covington, Ky. – The Madison Theater is bookended by two pawn shops. The battered marquee outside reads Megadeath is coming soon, but tonight – Nov. 10 – the stage belongs…

The streets outside Dayton, Ohio’s Canal Street Tavern stood eerily quiet on Saturday night, Feb. 24. The rain-soaked blacktop held random puddles deposited by the storm earlier in the day….

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