The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Black Friday is behind us and holiday decorations are popping up, but the Midwestern snow is stubbornly holding off. As radio and television ads become...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
While thankful for the closure that comes from a ruling that engineering disasters in the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet and our levees led to the post Katrina...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The Voodoo Music Experience just wrapped its 11th year, and volume-wise it goes to 11 (to borrow a phrase from Spinal Tap). Voodoo had an...
prefixmag (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... ultimate breakup mix? Here are her top ten (including two songs by the late, obscure folk singer Karen Dalton), as published in Bitch: 1. Karen Dalton "Just a Little Bit of Rain" 2. Prince "When You Were Mine" 3. Jackson 5 "Who's Loving You" 4. Lucinda Williams "I Envy the Wind" 5. Karen Dalton "Something's on...
Assistant Blog (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
... this might have seemed five years ago - folk (and, to a lesser extent, country) music; from Karen Dalton and Nick Drake through to The Band and John Fahey. And we’re now at a point where it is positively de rigour for every young band to have a xylophone and a ukulele, and to follow in the footsteps of the likes of Noah and the Whale, Jeffrey Lewis and Bon Iver by creating delicate,...
Stereogum (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The dozen songs on the Sounds From The Anthology Archives digital compilation are each excellent in their own, often hazed-out way. The collection's a mix of rare material that spans the '60s to the '80s and includes Karen Dalton, Betty Davis, Swedish garage rockers the Stomachmouths, Peruvian crew Telegraph Avenue (who turn in the wide-eyed, zoned-out awesome "Happy"), Indianapolis...
Stop Okay Go (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
There's an interesting article on Paste about some up and coming acts that are taking up the "(rather) musty mantle of folk music", including Alela Diane (left) who looks and sound-wise is often compared to Karen Dalton (right). Not sure...
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
... view". Where many other labels in the same field dream of scoring a "reissue hit" ( Karen Dalton's In My Own Time is a good example) where hipster buzz generates big sales that then taper off sharply, Numero's CDs "sell steadily and we keep every single release in print. Because the spines look alike, it helps to draw people to series as a whole". For all...
