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Song Premiere: Alejandro Escovedo - "Help!"

Alejandro Escovedo's rendition of "Help!" takes the upbeat youthful spirit of the original and translates it into the slow and ponderous desperation of man approaching old age.  read more

Alejandro Escovedo: Street Songs of Love

Unassuming excellence From his early work with the Nuns, on through Rank & File, the True Believers and more recently with his stellar solo albums, Alejandro Escovedo has remained a low-key legend. He’s a guy who, on any given night, can take one song and turn it into an orchestral ballad, a Stooges knife-fight or a Faces-flecked scratch-rocker; sometimes he’s David Bowie without the stage dress, sometimes he’s Townes Van Zandt with more easily-tamed ghosts, but he’s been a relentless—if largely unrecognized—presence on the musical landscape over the last few decades....  read more

Ten June Albums Worth Checking Out

Ah, June. It's the month that kicks off summer, the month where music festivals start popping up like weeds...  read more

Old Settler's Music Fest - Patty Griffin, Buddy Miller & a Gram Parsons experience

Stopping in for a bit of music at the Old Settler's Music Festival is like slipping into the '60s, like hanging at a mini-Woodstock. Proper attire is hippie authentic (as opposed to hippie chic found mostly in southern California). The waft of ganga occasionally drifts through. They even have the requisite rain storm with accompanying mud. But it don't mean a thing if it ain't got the music, something OSMF has plenty of. The weekend even extended into an interesting connection to Gram Parsons and Alice In Chains singer Layne Staley....  read more

Alejandro Escovedo Announces New Album, Springsteen Collaboration

Rock ‘n’ roll legend Alejandro Escovedo has been through a lot over the years, and he’ll be channeling those ups and downs once again into a new album, Street Songs of Love, June 29 on Fantasy Records. The record pairs Escovedo with producer Tony Visconti (T. Rex, Morrissey, David Bowie). Street Songs “ended up being an album about love, the pursuit of a feeling that is forever elusive, mysterious, and addictive,” according to Escovedo, and features a collaboration track with Bruce Sprinsteen (“Faith”)....  read more

Alejandro Escovedo Takes Roman Candle on Tour

Back in June, Roman Candle’s third album, Oh Tall Tree In The Ear, landed on Paste Editor-in-Chief Josh Jackson’s Best Music of 2009 list. Now, the North Carolina band will be ringing in 2010 with a series of January dates supporting veteran rocker Alejandro Escovedo. The trio is only playing seven shows in Southeastern states with Escovedo, but his tour continues through March 1 with David Pulkingham, Los Lonely Boys and Carrie Rodriguez....  read more

Jangle Bell Rock: A Chronological (Non-Holiday) Anthology… from The Beatles and Byrds to R.E.M. and Beyond

It's hard to say exactly where it started, but The Beatles and The Byrds often get the most credit for starting the enduring subgenre that's come to be known as jangle pop. Of course, The Searchers and even The Everly Brothers were laying the foundations before them...   read more

Bonnaroo 2009: Saturday Photos ft. Bruce Springsteen, Nine Inch Nails, Bon Iver, Wilco and More

[Above: Jimmy Buffett]Photos taken by Amber Roussel at Bonnaroo 2009...  read more

Alejandro Escovedo Preps for a Couple Charity Events

It's been a good year for Austin rocker Alejandro Escovedo. He's been nominated for the Americana Music Association award for Artist of the Year, and last summer's Real Animal is up for Album of the Year. Earlier this spring, he swept up a number of accolades at the Austin Music Awards, where he was named Musician of the Year and Songwriter of the Year, and where Real Animal took Album of the Year. But this year's not all about taking for Escovedo; he'll spend the summer giving a bit, too. To kick off the season, Escovedo will lend some skinny...  read more

Objects of Their Affection: Five Musicians and the Instruments They Love

After winning a 2006 Golden Globe for his co-screenwriting on Brokeback Mountain, novelist Larry McMurtry caused a certain amount of confusion when his acceptance speech deviated from...  read more