After listening to Hacienda’s debut, Loud Is The Night, I was surprised to learn, as I did in an interview with album producer, Dan Auerbach, that the band had been unfamiliar with the late, great Doug Sahm’s times and music until turned on to him by the Black Keys singer-guitarist. So capably do their songs … Read More →
Backtracks takes a look at songs that were a meaningful part of los grillos past and have recently come back to los grillos in whatever random ways such things happen–in a movie, in a bar, in a dream, or just in the head for no apparent reason. … Read More →
I was just getting off my shift at Henry’s in the quarter selling pints and cigarettes to half drunk tourists. It was 6 o’clock and the intensity of heat and moisture still hung to the air. Buildings were sweating; most of them hotels that had … Read More →
Damien Jurado has been quietly building a catalog of somber introspection and sharply relealized vignettes since his 1997 debut for Sub Pop, Waters Ave. S. His early Sub Pop catalog of loneliness and sorrow ranges in style from the guy and his guitar folk of Rehearsals For Departure to … Read More →
Backtracks | AC/DC’s Thunderstruck
Backtracks takes a look at songs that were a meaningful part of los grillos past and have recently come back to los grillos in whatever random ways such things happen–in a movie, in a bar, in a dream, or just in the head for no apparent reason. … Read More →