What’s Up This Week 4/13-4/16

Monday April 13 Waxahatchee and The Goodbye Party @ The Drunken Unicorn Genre: Indie Sounds Like: Angel Olsen, Swearin’, Mikal Cronin Tickets are $12. Doors open at 9 pm, show starts at 9:30 pm. Find Tickets Here! Sunshine Riot @ The Masquerade Genre: Country/Rock/Blues/Punk Sounds Like: Dead Ellington, Jamie Treadwell, Switchblade Suicide Tickets are $10. Show […]

5GB With JD McPherson; Playing The Earl, Nov. 8th

As a visual artist, Broken Arrow, Okla., native JD McPherson is well versed in the process of working within clearly defined formal parameters, and he employs a similarly rigorous discipline with his music. On Signs & Signifiers (Rounder, April 17), McPherson’s seductively kickass debut album, produced by JD’s musical partner, Jimmy Sutton, this renaissance man/hepcat […]

Q & A with Sean Rowe; Playing the Earl November 8th

By Al Kaufman If you saw the shaggy-haired Sean Rowe sitting under a tree playing his guitar on college campus, you would actually stop and listen – even if you weren’t a doe-eyed female freshman. He has a wonderfully honeyed, brooding baritone; a sort-of Greg Brown meets Tom Waits. And he can also tell a […]