The Misread City

HERE at The Misread City, we’re longtime fans of Rick Moody’s novels ( The Ice Storm ), short stories ( Demonology ) and music writing (co...

YOUR humble blogger caught a very good show at Largo last night by the LA folk duo The Milk Carton Kids . I've dug their Gillian Welch...

SOMETHING about the cool weather, the melange of religious songs and the reflective tone of the end of the end of the year leads...

HIS tunes are famously dark. But anyone who's paid attention to Richard Thompson's between-song banter, or seen his semi-comic 1000 ...

IT'S always a bit daunting to have to sum up an entire year's musical output -- even the best of it -- so I'm not gonna try to d...

I DON'T think I've been this starstruck since I interviewed Martin Scorsese a few years back. Meeting Gillian Welch and Dave Rawling...

ON Friday I have a New York Times review of an interesting if imperfect new book called Fire and Rain , which looks at the year 1970 and th...

THE best of it still sounds as fresh as the day its long-haired practitioners pulled out their mandolins and plugged in the amps: British fo...

ONE of the best films of 2010 was Winter's Bone, a kind of little movie that could which ended up with an Oscar nomination for star Jenn...

THURSDAY night sees one of the season's most intriguing bills: Joe Boyd, who produced folk-rock gods like Richard Thompson and Nick Drak...

LAST night I was lucky enough to catch Levon Helm, former drummer for The Band and one of the great comeback stories in rock music. The show...

A lot of us are excited that Fables of the Reconstruction -- R.E.M.'s most poetic and mysterious album -- has just gotten a deluxe reis...

SUNDAY night I was lucky enough to catch Britfolk guitarist Bert Jansch at Largo. It may've been the most stunning display of acoustic ...

The other night I accepted an invitation to see the Kentucky singer-songwriter Bonnie "Prince" Billy at McCabe’s Guitar Shop . I c...