I constantly have a widespread stomach-turning feeling from the inevitable fact that I will never hear every song, or even every musician. I live in non stop fear that there is a song or band that I’ll...
In November, Katie Crutchfield and Allison Crutchfield were given permanent residence at Birmingham’s Saturn, curator of unmatchable line-ups consisting of increasingly on-the-cusp artists unseen by...
Four hours away in Nashville, Tennessee, students at Belmont University, a liberal arts college that is home to the Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business, are immersed in crafting music and...
Not until the year 2022 are we promised a 50/50 gender balance at 45 music festivals. While this is a thrilling, and warranted, future promise to music consumers and makers, what’s difficult to swallow...
Green Bar is in the business of repurposing, changing a seemingly ordinary space into a distinctive locale. They're switching to a can-only beer list, allowing for an entirely recyclable bar service and...
In a dimly lit, low-ceilinged music venue, a densely packed, impassioned audience slung locally-sourced IPAs through the throngs of fellow active listeners and participants. The atmosphere was entangled...
In Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Julie Byrne, the Central Park central ranger who doubles as an enchantingly ethereal folk singer-songwriter, donned a simple sequined dress and no shoes to perform a delicately...
UA students flocked to the streets of New Orleans following the Sugar Bowl at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on Jan. 1. The celebration continued following the National Championship game on Jan. 8 in Atlanta....
In a seemingly mundane world of time zones and the circumstantial references that place us in said realm of time, there is a gleaming light of pleasure for those not looped into Eastern Standard Time....
Between Birmingham and Montgomery lies the Waxahatchee River. Twenty-two miles long, it constitutes the unsung border between Shelby and Chilton counties. A waterway typically provides jet-skiing and kayaking...
Phish “phans” have an app. It can be phound in the App Store and downloaded to your phone. Through this app, phanatics have, at their phingertips, twenty-phour minute jam sessions that drastically...
Between The Jupiter and Druid City Music Hall, The Strip continuously houses the various musical stylings of local, regional and nationally-recognized artists. From The Avett Brothers at The Jupiter in...
The year 2017, shockingly, lasted only 365 days. It’s difficult to understand how one year can hold such immense tragedy while simultaneously providing an outpouring of unique art that asks for change,...
While Hangout Music Fest always promises its patrons a sandy setting, the need for sunscreen, a laidback festival vibe and the picturesque landscape of Gulf Shores, this year also comes with the chance...
“We have to get a fan mail and start it off with ‘Hello Repeat Offenders,’” said RJ Marchand, drummer for the genre-bending, Tuscaloosa-based band Seismos. Seismos is a quartet of musicians with...
This weekend, Jason Isbell did a three-night run at Alabama Theatre starting Thursday and running through Saturday. This marked the beginning of Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit’s tour following the release...
Going to the dentist as a child would incite a strongest sense of panic in my bones. I feared everything, from the smell of the waiting room and the receptionist’s alarmingly too-cheery demeanor, to...
Thundercat, or Stephen Bruner in less funkified terms, is a bass guitarist that can undeniably envoke feelings of sly coolness on any listener. Listening to his new album “Drunk” feels almost deliriously...
Despite the recent frigid weather and ice skating rink still occupying Tuscaloosa Amphitheater’s pit seating, the venue has released a lineup for its upcoming Coca-Cola Concert Series starting in March....
This is an arbitrary list. Every list like this is. These opinions are formed from a wide range of conflicting, correlated experiences and opinions that have formed my personal preferences and opinions....
I share a dark past with the year 2010: this is the time when I listened to, and pretended to enjoy, the music of Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney, but not ironically. In order to comfort my shame surrounding...
My infatuation with drummers stems from an incredible, almost unreasonable, overindulgence of the movie “Whiplash.” Andrew Neiman, Whiplash’s main character, is an underappreciated jazz drummer under...
This summer, I listened to “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” on vinyl for the first time. On Fridays, each intern was given the stomach-turning, impossible task of selecting a record from the label...
On Thursday night, a mere two days following Halloween, Saturn, a favorite Birmingham music venue, will be full to the brim of concert-goers donning their All Hallow’s Eve best if Futurebirds get their...
In 2016, just a year ago, an album was released that will forever alter my view of themed Halloween music. Made famous by infomercials circulating through what could only be described as children’s television...
Here marks the beginning of another consistent trite Brooklyn-indie-rock music scene saga. This results in an end of close examination of LCD Soundsystem, James Murphy and the band’s fans. This brief...
The blue, three-way divided plate rests against the checkered tablecloth with mashed potatoes, fried okra, buttermilk chicken and, hopefully, a square of cornbread. While pleasantries bounce around the...
Clashing and thrashing through an indispensable relationship that seems essential and almost too obvious, if only because of similarly scruffy hair, Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett make music about making...
In 30 minutes and ten tracks, Whitney’s two frontmen, Julien Ehrlich and Max Kakacek, take the listener through a brutal, bitter winter, made more depressing by two devastating break-ups. They shut themselves...
Finding personal interactions can become pretty fruitless in most cases. The ability to say we are connected to others because of our phones is redundant and seems to be a substitute for connection. To...
The endless void of music and genres is immense and feels like a black hole. I’ll never know it all. I don’t think it would be possible to make even a microscopic dent. This year, I’ve listened to...
In the past few weeks, my Release Radar playlist on Spotify has been full of depressing remixes to Haim songs or tracks that came out three weeks ago that I've already delved into. Things have changed...
The four-piece Nashville band Judah & The Lion takes the stage at Druid City Music Hall tonight with a unique alternative, folk rock sound. Touring their new album, “Folk Hop N’ Roll,” the band provides...
The most controversial opinion that I find true is that Lorde’s “Melodrama” is devastatingly awful and that Arcade Fire’s “Everything Now” is brilliant. Both albums consumed music news this...
Syllabus week is over. The joy of walking to class and seeing familiar faces will soon diminish. Earbuds will run rampant and angsty music will be in full force as we fill our days with trips to the Gorgas...
Music has had a pretty good summer in my opinion; actually it’s been incredible. I’m utterly impressed by the truly unique and inventive albums that have finally become available during these last...
Six words have been floating across the Quad for the past month: “What are you doing this summer?” Some confidently tell their class acquaintances that they have accepted an internship with one of...
Throughout four years of college, students are expected to memorize various formulas in order to excel in understanding certain topics. While these formulas lead to success in the academic realm...
This Saturday, the Crimson Tide will be playing the Crimson Tide, a spring semester tradition entitled A-Day. No spring semester is complete without the brief glance into the excitement and joy felt by...
On Saturday nights at 11:30 p.m. eastern time, the Studio 8H stage in Rockefeller Center is transformed from a Grand Central Station terminal to a different performance venue depending on the performer....
Standing a few rows back at Alcove, you may catch brief glances of the three-piece rock band performing eye level with the audience. The band members are dressed in Napoleonic-era garb, with white shirts...
On Jan. 1, I created a playlist. It’s the fruition of a wild idea: to place all the music that I listen to and enjoy throughout 2017 in one place. In the past, I created playlists with specific sounds,...
Finding entertainment in Tuscaloosa is not a difficult task, but finding entertainment that increases intellectual prowess is a more difficult search. Luckily, a variety of restaurants, bars and breweries...
Very rarely do people go through the same music interests at the same time. My friends and I will typically discuss music with each other and introduce new artists, but recently I have noticed a trend...
Very rarely do people go through the same music interests at the same time. My friends and I will typically discuss music with each other and introduce new artists, but recently I have noticed a trend...
Chris Hornbrook marches to the beat of many drums. The spectrum of genres in his musical repertoire varies from punk to electronic. Hornbrook plays with Big Black Delta and Senses Fail, but he continues...
When five musicians with over 100 years of experience in the music industry through various projects, solo careers and involvement in other bands come together, one wouldn't assume a specific group of...
While the weather improves and the end of the semester feels imminent, Tuscaloosa’s live music scene also begins to pick up. Venues, like Green Bar, have back-to-back nights of good music. Make sure...
Any given weekend night, Thursdays included, the all-too-familiar chorus of ‘Wagon Wheel” echoes through Tuscaloosa's downtown bars. A cover band strums away as a most-likely-intoxicated audience...
There’s this band from Athens, Georgia, (I know what you’re thinking – of course they’re from Athens) with the ability to combine a broad array of genres into a unique southern psychedelic rock...
There are 37,665 students at The University of Alabama. When I walk the Quad, a favorite pastime of mine, I encounter my fellow students, but I will never have the opportunity to know them all. They may...
Just like any other weekend, Tuscaloosa’s music scene will be in full-swing with a wide variety of live music options.VCTRE w/ Illvis at Green Bar: On Friday night, UA student Aaron Pugh, will take...
If you happen to look at my previous columns, you might notice a single strand found throughout: John Mayer. I know that liking Mayer and his music is fairly commonplace these days, but since this is an...
Every wildly successful rock band, or musician, with the capable skills must cover one specific song to receive utmost respect. This song has been covered by many of your favorite bands. My personal opinion...
The name “Whitney” typically makes a list of popular girl names, but in 2016, this name was seen on another type of list: Best Albums of 2016. The alternative band from Chicago is the union of talented...
Bon Iver’s newest album, “22, A Million,” was released after a five-year hiatus for the band following the release of the self-titled “Bon Iver.” Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, however, did not take...
On July 29, 2016, John Mayer posted an Instagram of an album cover. The caption read, “This is the best record of the past two or three years. Proven many times over in my head. Think Radiohead 1996....
It’s the 2016 Super Bowl halftime show. Coldplay has just performed their fan favorites including “Paradise” and “Viva La Vida.” Then, a recognizable beat begins to play and the all too familiar...
The year 2016 has been a great year for rap. It’s only October, and we have new albums from Chance The Rapper, Kendrick Lamar, Frank Ocean, Kanye West, Drake and Schoolboy Q. We've seen the rap industry...
Driving to and from Tuscaloosa is one of my favorite things to do, despite how long it takes. The drive to Atlanta should only take three hours, but since I do not drive on the interstate, it takes me...
One of the best attributes that an artist or band can have is the ability to perform better live. It's different for each band. Some incorporate more instrumental parts to show off their ridiculous skill;...
September has been a month of exciting music releases. New singles have increased enthusiasm for upcoming albums, and it’s interesting to see how artists are releasing music. This year, we have seen...
One week ago, John Mayer’s album, “Continuum,” turned 10 years old. While this may seem like a trivial tidbit of information, I would like to make the argument that this album has not aged. Ten years...
Kings of Leon’s newest album, “Walls,” will be released on Oct. 10. Last Friday, Sept. 8, they released the first single off the album, “Waste A Moment.” Being the fan that I am, I patiently...
