The Killers and Beck will headline the 2024 Evolution Festival in St. Louis, Missouri this September.
The newly announced lineup also features Blondie, Jane’s Addiction, Nile Rodgers & Chic, Killer Mike, Todd Rundgren, Pete Yorn, Elle King, S.G. Goodman, Beachwood Sparks, Son Volt, and more.
Evolution will also showcase local cuisine, distillers, and visual artists from St. Louis, as well as a beer garden and marketplace.
Now in its second year, Evolution Festival goes down in Forest Park in St. Louis from September 28th-29th, 2024. Tickets to the festival, including Ga and VIP passes, go on sale beginning February 28th.
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The Killers, Beck, Blondie & Jane’s Addiction to Play 2024 Evolution Festival in St. Louis
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The newly announced lineup also features Blondie, Jane’s Addiction, Nile Rodgers & Chic, Killer Mike, Todd Rundgren, Pete Yorn, Elle King, S.G. Goodman, Beachwood Sparks, Son Volt, and more.
Evolution will also showcase local cuisine, distillers, and visual artists from St. Louis, as well as a beer garden and marketplace.
Now in its second year, Evolution Festival goes down in Forest Park in St. Louis from September 28th-29th, 2024. Tickets to the festival, including Ga and VIP passes, go on sale beginning February 28th.
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The Killers, Beck, Blondie & Jane’s Addiction to Play 2024 Evolution Festival in St. Louis
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- 2/26/2024
- by Scoop Harrison
- Consequence - Music
S.G. Goodman feels the lingering impression of someone who didn’t return her love in “Teeth Marks,” the first preview and title track of the Kentucky singer-songwriter and activist‘s follow-up to 2020’s Old Time Feeling. Teeth Marks will be released June 3 via Verve Forecast.
As a fingerstyle electric guitar picks out a vaguely country rhythm, Goodman launches a wounded plea at an unavailable lover. “Well I laughed a bit when you pulled that card/tellin’ me you’re gonna bless my heart/Well it is, it already is,” she sings.
As a fingerstyle electric guitar picks out a vaguely country rhythm, Goodman launches a wounded plea at an unavailable lover. “Well I laughed a bit when you pulled that card/tellin’ me you’re gonna bless my heart/Well it is, it already is,” she sings.
- 3/2/2022
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
Two years after releasing Union, roots-rock pioneers Son Volt will return with their tenth album Electro Melodier in July. The album features a new group of personal reflections and socio-political songs from frontman Jay Farrar, who originally set out to make a nostalgic record that paid tribute to the music of his youth.
“I wanted to concentrate on the melodies which got me into music in the first place,” Farrar said in a statement. “I wanted politics to take a back seat this time, but it always seems to find a way back in there.
“I wanted to concentrate on the melodies which got me into music in the first place,” Farrar said in a statement. “I wanted politics to take a back seat this time, but it always seems to find a way back in there.
- 5/13/2021
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
The fifth annual Outlaw Country Cruise has announced its 2020 lineup, with a mix of veteran cruisers from past years and new-to-the-voyage artists setting sail in late January.
Lucinda Williams and Steve Earle, two of the 2019 cruise headliners, are set to return, along with the Mavericks, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Son Volt, Jim Lauderdale, Carlene Carter, Kinky Friedman, the Waco Brothers and Bottle Rockets. Curated in part by SiriusXM’s Outlaw Country, the lineup includes many of the satellite-radio channel’s personalities, including Shooter Jennings, Elizabeth Cook, Dallas Wayne, Roger Alan Wade,...
Lucinda Williams and Steve Earle, two of the 2019 cruise headliners, are set to return, along with the Mavericks, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Son Volt, Jim Lauderdale, Carlene Carter, Kinky Friedman, the Waco Brothers and Bottle Rockets. Curated in part by SiriusXM’s Outlaw Country, the lineup includes many of the satellite-radio channel’s personalities, including Shooter Jennings, Elizabeth Cook, Dallas Wayne, Roger Alan Wade,...
- 3/28/2019
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Alt-country pioneers Son Volt offer insightful commentary on income inequality in “The 99.” The newly unveiled single appears on the band’s upcoming album Union, which will be released on March 29th.
Calling back the amplified sound of Son Volt’s early efforts, including 1995’s landmark album Trace, the new track is a dusty Heartland rocker punctuated by a gritty closing guitar solo. Lyrically, singer Jay Farrar is in protest mode, giving a voice to those struggling to make ends meet with chant-worthy lines like, “Already spent, already spent. No way...
Calling back the amplified sound of Son Volt’s early efforts, including 1995’s landmark album Trace, the new track is a dusty Heartland rocker punctuated by a gritty closing guitar solo. Lyrically, singer Jay Farrar is in protest mode, giving a voice to those struggling to make ends meet with chant-worthy lines like, “Already spent, already spent. No way...
- 2/15/2019
- by Jedd Ferris
- Rollingstone.com
When Americana pioneers Uncle Tupelo released their major-label debut, Anodyne on October 5th, 1993, it should have been the beginning of something big.
In a way, it was. Led by Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy from tiny Belleville, Illinois, the alt-country movement’s promising breakout band was packing clubs in major cities across America and Europe, not just the college towns where they spent years building their fan base.
They were following up their left-turn acoustic record, March 16-20, 1992, recorded with R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, with their best record...
In a way, it was. Led by Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy from tiny Belleville, Illinois, the alt-country movement’s promising breakout band was packing clubs in major cities across America and Europe, not just the college towns where they spent years building their fan base.
They were following up their left-turn acoustic record, March 16-20, 1992, recorded with R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, with their best record...
- 10/5/2018
- by Jim Beaugez
- Rollingstone.com
Special From Next Avenue
By Suzanne Gerber
You don’t have to throw out Little Feat to make room for Fleet Foxes
Google “ways to discover new music” and no less than 89,800,000 results pop up. Tons of websites, blogs, radio stations broadcasting the old-fashioned way and streamlining online, not to mention music sites like Spotify and Radio Paradise are dedicated to the proposition that all people deserve to discover new tunes.
So why are so many of our needles stuck in the “classic rock” groove, playing the same albums since 1992 -- or 1968? Not that there’s anything wrong with continuing to cherish the music we grew up with. For our generation, it would be hard not to: Some of the most enduring music (at least rock, soul, jazz and blues) was made when we were coming of age. But what I find frustrating is the misbegotten mindset that nothing new is worth listening to.
By Suzanne Gerber
You don’t have to throw out Little Feat to make room for Fleet Foxes
Google “ways to discover new music” and no less than 89,800,000 results pop up. Tons of websites, blogs, radio stations broadcasting the old-fashioned way and streamlining online, not to mention music sites like Spotify and Radio Paradise are dedicated to the proposition that all people deserve to discover new tunes.
So why are so many of our needles stuck in the “classic rock” groove, playing the same albums since 1992 -- or 1968? Not that there’s anything wrong with continuing to cherish the music we grew up with. For our generation, it would be hard not to: Some of the most enduring music (at least rock, soul, jazz and blues) was made when we were coming of age. But what I find frustrating is the misbegotten mindset that nothing new is worth listening to.
- 2/27/2013
- by Next Avenue
- Huffington Post
The key to any voyage into the twangy depths of this weekend's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival is planning.
San Francisco's annual free celebration of bluegrass (and also not bluegrass) in Golden Gate Park, now in its 12th consecutive year, has gotten so popular that shuttling between stages to see all of your favorite bands can prove virtually impossible. Instead, the best idea is often just to get there early, pick a spot near the stage you're most interested in and stay there for the long haul.
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While the lineup was announced months ago, the actual full schedule, complete with set times, was only released recently. Essential planning's gotta all be done Right This Very Second.
Our top recommendations are Ben Kweller, Buddy Miller, Robert Earl Keen, The Dirty Three, the Heartless Bastards, Son Volt and Les Claypool's Duo De Twang. If you're curious as to why this is exciting,...
San Francisco's annual free celebration of bluegrass (and also not bluegrass) in Golden Gate Park, now in its 12th consecutive year, has gotten so popular that shuttling between stages to see all of your favorite bands can prove virtually impossible. Instead, the best idea is often just to get there early, pick a spot near the stage you're most interested in and stay there for the long haul.
(Scroll Down For Playlist And Lineup)
While the lineup was announced months ago, the actual full schedule, complete with set times, was only released recently. Essential planning's gotta all be done Right This Very Second.
Our top recommendations are Ben Kweller, Buddy Miller, Robert Earl Keen, The Dirty Three, the Heartless Bastards, Son Volt and Les Claypool's Duo De Twang. If you're curious as to why this is exciting,...
- 10/4/2012
- by Aaron Sankin
- Huffington Post
Death Cab For Cutie frontman and recent Westboro Baptist Church target Ben Gibbard will be releasing a solo record, his first. Former Lives is due out Oct. 16 on Barsuk, and will contain 12 songs Gibbard’s written and recorded over the past eight years. That includes a few reworked versions of songs he’s performed live before, whether on tour with Uncle Tupelo and Son Volt’s Jay Farrar in 2009, or all by his lonesome in 2007. He’ll tour a little bit around this record, but no dates have been released. Former Lives was recorded by Earlimart ...
- 7/17/2012
- avclub.com
I first discovered Richard Buckner as Son Volt’s opener around the time of Straightaways. Standing alone with a keyboard on a big, dark stage, Buckner seemed perhaps the only person capable of out-bleaking that era’s Farrar, and while the performance was undeniably affecting, it was an ash-stiff whiskey or hostile-strong coffee-grade acquired taste. Some miles later, Buckner’s dark night of the soul seems to have gotten more accessible. There’s brooding beauty stirring through Our Blood, but it drawls by light on melodrama. Songs like “Escape” and “Confession” capture Buckner in great voice, an earthy warble that matter-of-factly packages complex emotions...
- 8/1/2011
- Pastemagazine.com
Are you in the Chicago area today? If you happen to hear a bunch of party horns or see a guy walking around with Mylar balloons, it's probably Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy, who turns 43 years old today. The venerable Tweedy has survived a number of personal and professional setbacks (drug addiction, chronic migraines, band break-ups, the death of former collaborator Jay Bennett) and has become one of the indie rock world's most inventive minds and enduring icons.
Tweedy first broke into the music world with Uncle Tupelo, a group formed by friends Tweedy, Jay Farrar and Mike Heidorn. Though the genre didn't really exist yet, Uncle Tupelo helped form the backbone of alt-country, which introduced classic Nashville sounds and songwriting tropes into traditional jangle-and-mumble indie rock. The band released four albums (including the watershed 1993 release Anodyne) but disbanded shortly after the release of their final album because of rising tensions between Farrar and Tweedy.
Tweedy first broke into the music world with Uncle Tupelo, a group formed by friends Tweedy, Jay Farrar and Mike Heidorn. Though the genre didn't really exist yet, Uncle Tupelo helped form the backbone of alt-country, which introduced classic Nashville sounds and songwriting tropes into traditional jangle-and-mumble indie rock. The band released four albums (including the watershed 1993 release Anodyne) but disbanded shortly after the release of their final album because of rising tensions between Farrar and Tweedy.
- 8/25/2010
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
"God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise," Ray Lamontagne's fourth album, is the first to utilize a billed backing band, The Pariah Dogs. It's also the first album the Northeast native has produced on his own. Any singer-songwriter would fall over themselves to snare the talent that 37-year-old Lamontagne's enlisted -- drummer Jay Bellerose (Alison Krauss and Robert Plant, Joe Henry), bassist Jennifer Condos (Bruce Springsteen, Ryan Adams), keyboardist Patrick Warren (Fiona Apple, Red Hot Chili Peppers), guitarist Eric Heywood (Son Volt, The Pretenders) and pedal steel guitarist Greg Leisz (Wilco, Beck). It's a session supergroup of sorts, with the predictable...
- 8/16/2010
- Hitfix
Disclaimer: The list is subject to change the very second that it's posted. Yes, this is what I'm doing on New Years Eve. And I guess it makes sense. Nothing has given me more pleasure this year and this decade than music. It's my therapist, joy, shoulder, understanding and just about everything else that compliments the emotions that run through me. It creates connections with not only friends, loved ones and strangers, but with the world. The following are the twenty records released in the 2000s that meant the most to me. Are they the best? Well, to me, yes. Now go out and buy some (all) of these. 20 Easton Stagger Phillips : One For the Ditch (2008) 19 Son Volt : Okemah and the Melody of Riot (2005) 18 Bruce Springsteen : The Rising (2002) 17 Arcade Fire : Neon Bible (2007) 16...
- 1/1/2010
- by Chris Campbell
- Huffington Post
Although Son Volt's Jay Farrar and Death Cab For Cutie's Benjamin Gibbard create music from two different perspectives--one uses roots-Americana as his template, and the other employs emo pop-jangle--their blend on the documentary soundtrack One Fast Move Or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur creates a sly folk variant that syncs perfectly with Jack Kerouac's classic. To lines directly taken from the beat author's lesser known Big Sur, a book considered by many to be as much of a classic as On The Road, Farrar composed original music that tracks Kerouac's detox pilgrimage from New York to California with Gibbard building on his partner's acoustic groundwork. Mike Ragogna: How did your collaboration begin? Jay Farrar: Ben and I were asked to contribute songs to the documentary One Fast Move Or I'm Gone. I think it was from my familiarity with Kerouac's work and...
- 10/21/2009
- by Mike Ragogna
- Huffington Post
It seems like lately that Ben Gibbard has his eyes on the big screen. The Death Cab for Cutie frontman seems to be popping up in a number of cinematic circumstances. He has a speaking-only role in John Krasinski's adaptation of David Foster Wallace's "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men," recently released. He combined forces with Son Volt/ex-Uncle Tupelo songwriter Jay Farrar on the rootsy score and soundtrack to "One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur." He also appears in the film, speaking on the beat icon's novel "Big Sur." Gibbard will be speaking, too, in a doc on...
- 10/20/2009
- by Katie Hasty
- Hitfix
Jack Kerouac's writing holds an integral spot on many a musician's required reading list. The late writer pioneered and documented the Beat movement, paving the way for much of the writing and music that would come in the latter half of the century. Perhaps his most celebrated work, 1957's On The Road captures the spirit of the cross-country tour and the floundering and frenzied lifestyle of an artist. Channeling the essence of Kerouac's life and canon, Son Volt frontman Jay Farrar and Death Cab's Ben Gibbard are working on a project that Farrar told St. Louis alt-weekly The Riverfront Times may see an October release.
- 7/17/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
All Time Low debut strong at #4 in week still dominated by Michael Jackson sales.
By Gil Kaufman
Maxwell's <i>BLACKsummers'night</i>
Photo: Columbia
It's a rough month to release a new album, because no matter how many units you move, the figure will likely pale in comparison to the massive posthumous numbers being put up by Michael Jackson. That's the case again next week, when the top four Jackson albums on the Top Pop Catalog chart will easily best the figures posted by the leaders on the Top 200 current album chart.
While Jackson and Jackson 5 albums hold the top 12 spots on the Catalog chart, the current albums chart is topped by soul smoothie Maxwell, who has broken an eight-year hiatus with the first of a planned trilogy of albums, BLACKsummers'night, which debuts at #1 on sales of 316,000, according to figures provided by Nielsen SoundScan.
The #2 slot is filled by the chart debut of the Hannah Montana 3 soundtrack,...
By Gil Kaufman
Maxwell's <i>BLACKsummers'night</i>
Photo: Columbia
It's a rough month to release a new album, because no matter how many units you move, the figure will likely pale in comparison to the massive posthumous numbers being put up by Michael Jackson. That's the case again next week, when the top four Jackson albums on the Top Pop Catalog chart will easily best the figures posted by the leaders on the Top 200 current album chart.
While Jackson and Jackson 5 albums hold the top 12 spots on the Catalog chart, the current albums chart is topped by soul smoothie Maxwell, who has broken an eight-year hiatus with the first of a planned trilogy of albums, BLACKsummers'night, which debuts at #1 on sales of 316,000, according to figures provided by Nielsen SoundScan.
The #2 slot is filled by the chart debut of the Hannah Montana 3 soundtrack,...
- 7/15/2009
- MTV Music News
Hometown: Brooklyn, N.Y.
Album: Are Men
Band Members: Johnny Carpenter (pedal steel), Fletcher “Poor Boy” Johnson (guitar, vocals), Will Noland (bass), Thomas Deacon O'Brien (drums), Joseph Plunket (guitar, vocals), Jameson Proctor (keyboards)
For Fans Of: The Replacements, Drive-By Truckers, Son Volt
Just before the Fourth of July, Johnny Carpenter, Thomas Deacon O’Brien and Will Noland are carpooling one hour north from their home base in Brooklyn to Bear Mountain, N.Y., for The Weight frontman Joseph Plunket’s engagement party. “Uhh, I got to turn the air conditioner off—my car’s gonna overheat,” Carpenter chuckles over the phone. “Hold on, change of plans.”...
Album: Are Men
Band Members: Johnny Carpenter (pedal steel), Fletcher “Poor Boy” Johnson (guitar, vocals), Will Noland (bass), Thomas Deacon O'Brien (drums), Joseph Plunket (guitar, vocals), Jameson Proctor (keyboards)
For Fans Of: The Replacements, Drive-By Truckers, Son Volt
Just before the Fourth of July, Johnny Carpenter, Thomas Deacon O’Brien and Will Noland are carpooling one hour north from their home base in Brooklyn to Bear Mountain, N.Y., for The Weight frontman Joseph Plunket’s engagement party. “Uhh, I got to turn the air conditioner off—my car’s gonna overheat,” Carpenter chuckles over the phone. “Hold on, change of plans.”...
- 7/13/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
Over Jay Farrar’s past few albums—with Son Volt and on his own—the country-rock singer-songwriter has struggled to fit his drawling monotone into contexts where it won’t sound so limiting. He’s tried matching his voice to an equally stark sound, and hiding behind more elaborate arrangements. Now, with Son Volt’s American Central Dust, Farrar reverts to the kind of straight-ahead, socially conscious roots music he’s been pushing since his Uncle Tupelo days. The songs on American Central Dust lean heavy on twang and moan, fiddles and mid-tempos, workingman’s laments and historical tragedy. Reduced ...
- 7/7/2009
- avclub.com
Stream Wilco's Wilco (The Album) in its entirety here.
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Former bandmates travel familiar territory
Wilco: Wilco (The Album)[Nonesuch]74/100
Son Volt: American Central Dust[Rounder]61/100
Admittedly, a joint review of the latest albums from Wilco and Son Volt is a bit unfair. It’s been 15 years since the two bands rose from the ashes of Uncle Tupelo, and both quickly left their progenitor behind in terms of musical style, lyrical maturity and commercial success. No matter how influential Uncle Tupelo was (and that’s certainly debatable), the band released only four albums in its seven-year history. Escaping its shadow should’ve been easy for frontmen Jeff Tweedy and Jay Farrar.
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Former bandmates travel familiar territory
Wilco: Wilco (The Album)[Nonesuch]74/100
Son Volt: American Central Dust[Rounder]61/100
Admittedly, a joint review of the latest albums from Wilco and Son Volt is a bit unfair. It’s been 15 years since the two bands rose from the ashes of Uncle Tupelo, and both quickly left their progenitor behind in terms of musical style, lyrical maturity and commercial success. No matter how influential Uncle Tupelo was (and that’s certainly debatable), the band released only four albums in its seven-year history. Escaping its shadow should’ve been easy for frontmen Jeff Tweedy and Jay Farrar.
- 6/30/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
Son Volt’s new release, American Central Dust, its third in four years, finds alt-country purveyor Jay Farrar embracing the band’s new-found focus. Mixing its trademark raw and plaintive sound with bar stool prophesies, Son Volt once again tackles complex contemporary issues through the aural simplicity of the heartland. Taking a break from tour rehearsals, Farrar caught up with Paste to talk about kids, Keith Richards and the inspiration to return to his musical roots.
- 6/23/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
Son Volt will release its next album "American Central Dust" on July 7. It will be the Americana-inspired rock group's sixth full-length and its first since signing with Rounder Records.
"Rounder has shown a long term commitment to music forms, like folk and blues, that I have a lot of respect for," frontman Jay Farrar told Billboard.com.
"Going with Rounder has been a kind of a full circle continuum -- the first Rounder person I met with was instrumental in booking Uncle Tupelo gigs years ago," Farrar added.
The 12-song collection is described as a return to Son Volt's debut album "Trace" following 2007's experimental "The Search." The current Son Volt lineup includes Dave Bryson on drums; Andrew Duplantis on bass and backing vocals; Chris Masterson on lead guitar; and Mark Spencer on keyboards and steel guitar.
"Rounder has shown a long term commitment to music forms, like folk and blues, that I have a lot of respect for," frontman Jay Farrar told Billboard.com.
"Going with Rounder has been a kind of a full circle continuum -- the first Rounder person I met with was instrumental in booking Uncle Tupelo gigs years ago," Farrar added.
The 12-song collection is described as a return to Son Volt's debut album "Trace" following 2007's experimental "The Search." The current Son Volt lineup includes Dave Bryson on drums; Andrew Duplantis on bass and backing vocals; Chris Masterson on lead guitar; and Mark Spencer on keyboards and steel guitar.
- 4/7/2009
- icelebz.com
Alt-country music arguably peaked in 1995, with the formation of Whiskeytown, The Jayhawks' Tomorrow the Green Grass, Emmylou Harris' Wrecking Ball, Old 97's Wreck Your Life, Steve Earle's Train a Comin', and the releases of the debut Wilco, Son Volt, and Buddy Miller albums. Don't look now, but that was almost a decade and a half ago. In the meantime, the genre, which once seemed to breathe fresh, new life into hoary country music, has gotten a little long in the tooth. Tastes have changed, and the audience, for the most part, has moved on. That's most evident in the demise of No Depression Magazine, which championed this music throughout its history, and which closed its doors a year ago. But don't write off the old warhorse just yet. Here are three new albums that hearken back to the days when the music was a thoroughbred. One of them...
- 3/11/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
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