Email Author Justin F. Farrar

2008 Stories by Justin F. Farrar

• Exodus

  published November 12, 2008

  Indie dorks get wood for My Bloody Valentine performing Loveless or Sonic Youth unleashing Daydream Nation. Metalheads, however, are... More >>

• Crooked Fingers (CD release)

  published November 5, 2008

  Eric Bachmann has racked up serious frequent flier miles wandering the musical map. Ever since those indie darlings Archers of Loaf broke up in... More >>

• Ray LaMontagne

  published November 5, 2008

  Ray LaMontagne is a denim-clad throwback, and that makes him a pretty cool dude. Instead of ripping off Coldplay and John Mayer just like every... More >>

• Little Feat

  published October 29, 2008

  Bands usually swim straight down the shitter after losing their most talented members, but not Little Feat. Although the group fell apart when... More >>

• Indie Rockers Aren’t Playing Americana, They’re Playing Dress-Up

  published September 24, 2008

  Vintage rural rock, country folk, and stoner bluegrass are some of the more beautiful things our screwed-up... More >>

• Jackson Browne

  published September 24, 2008

  Have you seen the cover of the new Jackson Browne album? My God - he looks like the Dude from The Big Lebowski, which just might be... More >>

• A Museum of Post-Sun City Freak

  published September 17, 2008

  Over the past 25 years, the Seattle-based Sun City Girls and their myriad side projects have evolved into America's most... More >>

• The Juan MacLean

  published September 10, 2008

  This is going to be a special gig. First off, it's the Juan MacLean’s first tour in nearly five years. For somebody so vital to the current... More >>

• Phoebe Snow

  published August 27, 2008

  In the late '60s, Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, and Laura Nyro were the first singer-songwriters to open up folk music to uptown jazz, soul and... More >>

• Duff McKagan's Loaded

  published July 30, 2008

  Duff McKagan's Loaded sounds like the name of a Broadway revue complete with a medley of memorable bass lines and a jazzy dance number to "One in... More >>

• Appalachian Ghosts

  published July 30, 2008

  I've always believed that traditional music + punk rock is an aesthetically bankrupt... More >>

• The Master Musicians of Jajouka feat. Bachir Attar-- CANCELED

  published July 16, 2008

  The Master Musicians of Jajouka are one of world music's pioneering outfits. Although Smithsonian Folkways and the Ocora label had been producing... More >>

• The Blasters

  published July 16, 2008

  For those of you now gearing up for that Los Lobos show on the 25th, why not get the party started a week early and shake your rumps to the... More >>

• Cowboy Robots Ride Again

  published July 9, 2008

  Some blog-like entity called Losanjealous recently wet its panties over this Beachwood Sparks reunion. In fact, they... More >>

• Seaweed at SP20

  published July 9, 2008

  Back in them early '90s, a lot of rock critics tagged Seaweed as grunge, simply because they recorded for Sub Pop. No doubt the Tacoma outfit... More >>

• Wave That Flag, Hoss!

  published July 2, 2008

  I love my country...but fear my government. That's one of them liberal bumper stickers. It's pasted to a... More >>

• Railroad Earth and Greensky Bluegrass

  published June 18, 2008

  Railroad Earth's hemp-friendly fusion of bluegrass, roots rock and more flavors of folk than you can count not only attracts fans of Americana and... More >>

• Psychedelic Horseshit

  published June 4, 2008

  A musician friend recently e-mailed saying, 'Man, this whole retro lo-fi thing is a scene now.' He's right, ya know. Post-punk sleeps with the... More >>

• Life After Freak Folk and Alt-Country

  published May 28, 2008

  Just about everybody and their mama hates on freak-folk these days. But I got to admit, the idea of forcing... More >>

• Arch Enemy

  published May 21, 2008

  Ever ponder how many teenage metal dudes out there must be routinely choking their chickens to pix of Angela Gossow? Think about it: Not since... More >>

• Blue Rodeo

  published May 14, 2008

  In the late '80s, Blue Rodeo's records were always for sale via that 39-cassettes-for-a-penny scam that appeared in Star magazine. Little did we... More >>

• Roy Loney

  published May 14, 2008

  Does anybody really know why Roy Loney didn't make a ton of killer albums after leaving the Flamin' Groovies in '71? Probably not. But the talent... More >>

• Dark Meat Drags Underground Rock Below the Mason-Dixon Line

  published April 30, 2008

  On first glance, Georgia's Dark Meat fits snugly into underground rock's current zeitgeist. Like Feathers and... More >>

• The Mae Shi

  published April 23, 2008

  Underground California is a weird fuckin’ place. While national trends in indie rock come and go like male mayflies post coitus, the Golden... More >>

• Blood on the Wall

  published April 23, 2008

  Too many indie critics have dismissed Blood on the Wall for blatantly ripping off the Pixies, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr. and several other... More >>