Box Set

Martina McBride considers her current CD, "Shine," to be her most commercially accessible album ? no small statement for an artist with hit singles across a 15-year career. Read More

In late September an unsolicited package arrived at the Atlanta home of writer, graphic designer, and indie-scene gadfly Henry Owings, whose endeavors range from the long-running zine Chunklet to Grammy-winning design work for Revenant Records' 2001 Charley Patton box set. Read More

Box sets used to mean exhaustive retrospectives arriving decades into a prolific artist's career. Read More

The truth is, I'm well past suffering any delusions about becoming a blogger superstar. Read More

It's another week of artists whose names begin with the letter S, as we take a look at the ass end of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, i.e. songs that charted below #40, during the 1980s. Read More

For a generation of listeners, the late Ella Fitzgerald exists perhaps as more of a concept than as someone who was once a living human being. Read More

I'd better slide you some top-notch Christmas music to make sure your holidays is filled with those things which are awesome. Read More

Electric Avenue has just announced it's full Xmas programme, and as usual there is something for everyone over the holiday period, with some great live bands in the EA Main Room and all kinds of quality club nights in the Loft and Mezz. So if you are a lover of The Beatles, Ska Music, 90s Dance/Pop, Soul Music, House, Techno, cool Waterford original bands and the fabulous Jam Tarts. Read More

Well, read my shit here first then go see it. Read More

Here it is — our obligatory year-end list. Read More