by Advocate Staff | Dec 10, 2014 | Articles, Featured
Record labels’ raison d’etre used to be pretty clear: fund and promote records, and send bands on tour. In the MP3 era, the very concept of an album has gotten slippery, and some labels fill much different roles than the old model. Where many a newer effort has...
by Gary Carra | Dec 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
He’s a percussive dancer from Michigan. She’s a Scottish harpist. So naturally, when the two met at the Shasta Fiddle Camp in Northern California, they decided to take their show on the road. Maeve Gilchrist and Nic Gareiss bring their unique amalgam of dance and harp...
by Gary Carra | Nov 30, 2014 | Music
When it comes to the tale of longtime Valley label Signature Sounds (based in Northampton) and its impending celebration of two decades of delivering quality Americana, folk and roots rock this weekend, the Crawler certainly has plenty of observations on the topic....
