Here’s an old mix that I made for a friend. It started out as an introduction to Alt Country, but turned into more of a mood mix than anything. It’s still one of my favorite mixes that I’ve made.
It’s got some pretty sad bastard material on it, but I don’t think of it as depressing [...]

Will Oldham has been a personal favorite for a while (be it under Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Palace Music, Oldham or whatever name he’s adopted for the project at hand). He is a songwriter in the truest sense of the word. His music spans a wide range of genres from folk to experimental and can be [...]

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 8 is coming back to Golden Gate Park October 3-5. This year’s lineup is as impressive as we’ve come to expect, featuring a good mix of bluegrass (Del McCoury Band, Earl Scruggs, Hazel Dickens, etc.), bluegrass-friendly (Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Loudon Wainwright III, etc.) and distinctly non-bluegrass (Gogol Bordello) [...]

I’m not a big fan of Kanye’s rapping (I think I’m the only one out there that doesn’t like any of his albums), but the man is clearly one of the best producers out there.
Preferences aside, this is a damn cool video. Not only did he use a great sample from Daft Punk, he updated [...]