By Brian Wise New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Weekend 1, April 23-April 26, 2026 It’s almost exactly 20 years since Bruce Springsteen appeared at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival with his Seeger […]
Episode 20 of On The Record finds Brian Wise reporting in from the field—first Austin, then New Orleans—with the kind of on-the-ground detail that reminds you why festivals still matter, even as many struggle to […]
On Lost Cause Lover Fool, The Milk Carton Kids aren’t chasing reinvention – they’re doubling down on the quiet magic that made them one of modern folk’s most disarming duos in the first place. Released […]
By Brian Wise. Revered Canadian singer songwriter Ron Sexsmith is on tour in Australia now with his terrific recent album under his belt. Call it serendipity but when I had to change my return flight […]
By Brian Wise Old Settler’s Festival, Austin, Texas – Friday, April 17 – Sunday, April 19, 2026 Across this one weekend, Austin offered a reggae festival right in town, a huge country music event in […]
Episode 19 of On The Record kicks off with one foot in the present and the other firmly planted on the long tail of rock history—touching on new Rolling Stones material before sliding into an […]
Benjamin Tod’s Vengeance & Grace is out today via Thirty Tigers, arriving as a 20-track double album built around a clear structural concept: ten songs, each presented in two distinct versions. One set features full-band […]
Tom Waits has today released a new single, “Boots on the Ground,” a collaboration with Massive Attack marking his first newly released recording since 2011’s album Bad as Me. The collaboration has been years in […]
Barney McAll: MonK KnoW: Explorations of Thelonious Monk (Independent, digital release) Review by Des Cowley. Thelonious Monk’s body of work casts a long shadow over jazz history, ever since the pianist first stepped into the […]
There are episodes of On The Record that wander; Episode 18 plants its flag firmly in one year—1966—and dares you to argue it wasn’t the moment pop music grew up. Brian Wise and Michael Mackenzie […]
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