“At first listen, it might be tempting to label Fool’s Gold as ‘world music,’ but the band is, in its essence, a Los Angeles band.” Or so says Fool’s Gold’s label, I Am Sound. And indeed, in some ways at least, that description is apt. You certainly can’t say that Fool’s Gold’s debut (Sept. 29) [...]

My Morning Jacket, Bright Eyes and M. Ward fans will find themselves together, en masse, October 18th at the Greek Theater here in L.A. when Monsters of Folk come through town.  We are giving away a few pairs of tickets to the show. Leave your name, and a valid email address in the comments – [...]

Dead Confederat/Meat Puppets with Dead Confederate at the El Rey theater. We have five pairs of tickets to give away to AD readers. Leave your name and email address in the comments below – tickets available at Will-Call. Winners notified via email.

“I got to keep moving, blues falling down like hail. And the day keeps on remindin’ me, there’s a hellhound on my trail.” – Robert Johnson Beginning in October of 2007 my wife and I embarked on a joint venture to explore, document and report on the the current state of Delta Blues Trail spanning [...]

Yeeee Haw!! Put on them shitkickers, fellas! Ha, kidding, but for real, AD, MOKB and 30 Tigers are throwing a joint showcase at The Basement, in Nashvegas, the Friday night (9/19) of the AMA Festival. Doors are at 7pm and as you can see the lineup is filled with Drunkard favorites: Jason Isbell, O’Death, Those [...]

He’s doing it “Reynolds style.” Author/collector Tom Hamling suffers from a condition that drives him to hunt down the very most obscure in vinyl records. Granted, this in and of itself would describe half of my friends, but Hamling strictly hunts only the horrible, wretched, thing that is celebrities cutting albums. Yup, Burt Reynolds did [...]

Heads up: Next week we are giving away tickets to the Robert Plant/Allison Krauss (June 23/24) show taking place at one of my very favorite summer venues — the Greek Theatre, here in Los Angeles. This week, though, we have a pair of tickets to giveaway to an AD reader for the upcoming Rilo Kiley/Lavender [...]

Like Thurston Moore and Rob Sheffield before him, AD contributor j. neas reflects on, and laments, the art of the (actual) mixtape. Now, raise your hand if you’ve created a muxtape (yes, I’m guilty). Part two of two. You can read part one, HERE – AD I never want to own a car without a [...]