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Fricke's Picks: Cajun Spice and Thrash
The Zydepunks — a New Orleans quintet with dueling accordions and fiddles instead of rock guitars — play a fast, whirling music that is not just zydeco and way mor... | More »May 23, 12:00 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Dylan's Basement Bash
"At 2:12 Dylan plays a tender if slightly clumsy lead guitar solo on his acoustic twelve-string. At 3:18 Bob bumps his guitar on his chair." That is the kind of detail... | More »May 22, 11:27 AM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Everyone Sings Newman
After releasing Randy Newman's 1968 debut album, Randy Newman, to great acclaim and near-zero sales, the singer-songwriter's label, Reprise, ran a pair of co... | More »May 21, 11:36 AM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Paul Kelly
At a recent New York club date, the Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly opened with a song about the end of things, "You Can't Take It With You" — from a 19... | More »May 8, 3:15 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: James Blackshaw
In 1999, James Blackshaw was a teenage guitarist from the London suburbs, playing in indie-rock bands. Then a friend played him The Dance of Death and Other Plantation... | More »May 7, 3:50 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Answer
The Answer opened their midnight-hour SXSW show with a few words. "We're from Belfast, Northern Ireland, and our business is rock & roll," crowed singer Cormac Ne... | More »April 25, 3:02 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Boredoms
Japanese trance-rock band Boredoms were far fewer in number for their recent in-the-round show at New York's Terminal 5 — three drummers, an onstage sound proce... | More »April 24, 1:55 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Black Angels
Even by the nonstop-rock standards of 2008's SXSW festival, it was weird to see a band that seems to live on ultraviolet light, out in broad daylight, making ripp... | More »April 23, 2:25 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Bobby Whitlock
On my last night at this year's SXSW, I was a guest at a very private party — a surprise sixtieth-birthday bash for Bobby Whitlock, who was, for a time, at the ... | More »April 11, 12:51 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Graveyard
Of the nearly 400 acts that played in Austin on the first night of SXSW 2008, Graveyard, from Gothenberg, Sweden, were probably the only band that would also have fit ... | More »April 10, 11:50 AM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: UFO
In June 1973, the British hard-rock quartet UFO landed in Germany for a tour — as a trio, because their guitarist suddenly quit. UFO had already gone through two oth... | More »April 9, 12:39 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Soulshake Express
The liner notes in the CD booklet of Heavy Music (Beatville) by Sweden's Soulshake Express are almost forty years old, borrowed (with a credit) from the back of t... | More »March 28, 12:50 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Nik Batsch's Ronin
There were moments — long, magnetic spells, actually — during a recent set by Nik Bartsch's Ronin at Joe's Pub in New York when the Swiss instrumental qu... | More »March 27, 1:14 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Joseph Arthur
Joseph Arthur has Ryan Adams Syndrome: He can't stop making records. Since 2000, Arthur — an Ohio native first championed by Peter Gabriel in the mid-Nineties â... | More »March 26, 2:23 PM ET| David Fricke
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