NEW ORLEANS -- When he was growing up in the 1970s, Michael Franti listened to lots of Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder and Bob Marley -- musicians who weren't afraid to risk album sales in order to make a statement about issues in the world around them. Today, fewer and fewer …
&The R&B singer enlists an unlikely backing band, and police hassle The Coup's Boots Riley. By August Brown, Times Staff Writer BETTYE LAVETTE'S 2005 album "I've Got My Own Hell to Raise" was one of the year's most unlikely and welcome comebacks. It's a teary and raw R&B record of …
DeVotchKa, “the best band in America you’ve never heard of” according to Filter Magazine, has signed an exclusive deal with ANTI RECORDS for the European release of their much-praised album How It Ends. DeVotchKa are four musicians who have quietly become one of the most celebrated bands making music today. …
Tour Underway; Followed by Dave Matthews Support Dates On the heels of his celebrated performance at Bonnaroo last week, Xavier Rudd – the acclaimed Australian singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist – has just launched an extensive U.S. Tour this week in support of his second Anti- album, White Moth. The disc, …
Spoon has signed an exclusive deal with ANTI Records for the European release of their eagerly anticipated new album "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga". The album will be released on July 9th 2007. With a history of stellar records, Spoon has topped themselves with Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, a …
Wild Countryman ~ By CHRIS MORRIS ~ When Marty Stuart joked on the Safari Sam’s stage last Sunday night that Lankershim Boulevard should be renamed Porter Wagoner Boulevard, he was probably making a reference to the old North Hollywood location of Nudie’s Western Wear. Wagoner – who was fronting Stuart’s …