by Advocate Staff | Feb 25, 2015 | Arts, Music
Bob Dylan and The Band The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Complete Basement Tapes (Columbia/Legacy) It’s about time. Ever since Columbia launched this series over 20 years ago, the release of Bob Dylan’s most famous bootleg has been eagerly anticipated. A 24-song...
by Gary Carra | Feb 18, 2015 | Arts, Columns, Music, Nightcrawler
On the back of such seminal works as Goodfellas and Casino, Martin Scorsese is roundly regarded as an authority on all things mafioso. Less famously — at least, when considering his body of work in its entirety — Scorsese also filmed and released the final concert by...
by James Heflin | Feb 11, 2015 | Arts, Music
Of Montreal Aureate Gloom (Polyvinyl) Of Montreal — which is not a band from Montreal, but from Athens, Georgia — taps into a distinctive, if monolithic aesthetic on its 13th album. Determining whether that stylistic unity is evidence of imaginitive shortcomings or of...
by James Heflin | Feb 4, 2015 | Arts, Music
Barnstar! Sit Down! Get Up! Get Out! (Signature Sounds) Sure, it’s a generalization, but many are the bluegrass bands that sound a whole lot like all the other bluegrass bands. Standing out in such a well-defined and longstanding genre is no easy task. Put with that...
by Gary Carra | Jan 28, 2015 | Arts, Columns, Music, Nightcrawler
They may call themselves Trailer Trash, but in talking to lead singer Joe Fazio and six-stringer Bob Stanek about the band’s inception, it sure sounds more like a recycling/re-tooling project. “Everyone in this band are friends and we’ve played together in various...
