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Ryan Adams, DiFranco, Thile, more to play Telluride fest
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals and Arlo Guthrie have been added to the lineup of the 35th annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival, to take place June 19-22 in Telluride, Colo. In addition to headliners Adams and Guthrie, this year’s festival features an impressive mix of up-and-coming artists and veteran performers. Southern songbird Tift Merritt, former Nickel Creek member Chris Thile and his band the Punch Brothers, and indie veteran Ani DiFranco will take the Telluride stage, as will Oscar darlings Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, The Swell Season. Hansard will also be playing with his band The Frames, in one of... read more
Found in: Music, NewsWhiskeytown's Strangers Almanac to be reissued March 4
Let us hop into the Wayback Machine and go back about a decade to a simpler time, when "Gawker" was just another rarely-used noun and Pitchfork reviews came in at under 200 words. In the heady days of 1997, David Ryan Adams was half of the duo at the heart of Whiskeytown, a precocious 22-year-old axeman with a noggin full of hooks and a taste for Grandpa's medicine. He and vocalist/violinist Caitlin Cary whittled an already huge backlog of songs down to 13 for Strangers Almanac, the North Carolina band's major-label debut. By the time Whiskeytown hit the road to... read more
Found in: Music, NewsRyan Adams, Arcade Fire contribute to rock auction
Start looking for an enormous guitar-shaped stocking and emptying out your change jars, because the 19th Annual Rock for Kids Charity Auction has enough sweet donated instruments to please just about any music fan. One might even call it a...rocktion? Hmmm? Although proxy bidding has ended, Pitchfork reports Chicagoans can mosey on down to Park West today to bid on an extensive list of items, including signed sweetness from Paste featured artists such as Ryan Adams (guitar), Iron and Wine (LP) and Feist (framed album). Other fun signed stuff includes Billy Joel "Piano Man" sheet music, a chair drawn on... read more
Found in: Music, NewsRyan Adams & The Cardinals plot West Coast dates
For the past month on PasteMagazine.com, Ryan Adams has been sitting there in the upper left corner of the website, watching our visitors like a guardian spirit. Doubtless you've already had the chance to check out Steve LaBate's cover story on the man, his music and his unique brand of madness. But maybe you still haven't seen Adams live, and consequently haven't witnessed the glory of "The E-Zone" or "The Plateau" firsthand. Well, if you live on the West Coast, get ready to make a date with Adams and his Cardinals. They've stayed busy in 2007 with Easy Tiger and... read more
Found in: Music, NewsRyan Adams: The View from the Plateau
After nine solo albums and a forthcoming five-disc box set, Ryan Adams is finally putting his solo career on the back burner. Next for Adams? Working as a fulltime member of his current “backing” band, The Cardinals. Paste catches one of today’s most brilliant, prolific songwriters—sober for a year now—on the precipice of a new phase in his life and musical journey... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesRyan Adams EP gets title, confirmed tracklist
As we reported last week, unabashedly prolific singer/songwriter Ryan Adams has an EP coming out Oct. 23. Well, the EP now has a title, Follow the Lights, and a confirmed tracklist, which is as follows (complete with parenthetical song descriptors): 1. Follow The Lights (new song) 2. My Love For You Is Real (new song) 3. Blue Hotel (first official release, recorded live in studio) 4. Dear John (live in studio) 5. This Is It (Cardinals version, live in studio) 6. Down In A Hole (Alice In Chains cover, live in studio) 7. If I Am A Stranger (live in... read more
Found in: Music, NewsRyan Adams preps EP, label readies box set
The hilarious intro to Ryan Adams’ unreleased track “Dear Diary” finds the singer confessing—in his most ironic singsong voice, over angelic ’80s synths—“Dear Diary, you’ll never guess / They think this album’s overlong / The critics aren’t impressed.” Maybe this one’ll shut their yappers. Andy Nelson, VP of Marketing and Artist Development at Adams’ label Lost Highway tells Paste that Adams’ new seven-track EP with his band The Cardinals will hit shelves Oct. 23. The EP will include two brand new songs, “Follow The Lights” and “My Love For You Is Real,” both of which will be featured prominently on... read more
Found in: Music, NewsWannabe spacemen replace Ryan Adams at moe.down
Those who booked moe.down tickets in anticipation of the knee-tappin', alt.country of Ryan Adams will have to trade in their comfortable denim-based wardrobes for zany electric silver space-tuxedos (or no shirts whatsoever) a la replacement headliner Satellite Party, led by former Jane’s Addiction/Porno for Pyros frontman and Lollapalooza founder Perry Farrell. moe. cites “personal reasons” as the explanation for Adams and the Cardinals' cancellation, eagerly welcoming a spot-filler that will create a wildly different ambiance. “Jane’s Addiction was a huge influence when moe. first got together,” stated moe.’s Al Schnier, adding that Lollapalooza was equally inspirational for his own festival,... read more
Found in: Music, NewsDamn, Sam (I Love a Ryan Adams Tour)
It’s a hard way to fall, but it’s certainly getting easier with a slew of new tour dates from Ryan Adams and the Cardinals. Chugging like Hüsker Dü on a country binge, Reckoning like a 1981 Grateful Dead, RA and Co. will blaze through like an expressway to your skull this fall and winter with an extensive run with dates in Australia, the US, Canada, and the UK. Tomorrow’s on its way and there’s always new songs to sing. So all you halloweenheads and sad draculas put down your suicide handbooks, come out of your exile on Franklin Street and... read more
Found in: Music, NewsRyan Adams: Easy Tiger
Prolific songwriter's heart still breaking (good news for us, anyway) read more
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