Articles by Jason Schneider

Folk & Country 2011: Where Are the Protest Singers?

PUBLISHED Nov 28, 2011

On July 13, Vancouver-based Adbusters Magazine, inspired by the Arab Spring, posted on their blog that people could similarly amass on Wall...

Brett Netson

Simple Work for the Dead

PUBLISHED Nov 22, 2011

On his first solo album, Built To Spill guitarist Brett Netson channels much more of his extensive work over the past two decades with the...

Devon Sproule

I Love You, Go Easy

PUBLISHED Nov 9, 2011

Having quickly become a critical darling in the U.S. and UK with her 2007 album, Keep Your Silver Shined, Devon Sproule's fragile folk gets...

The Waterboys

An Appointment With Mr. Yeats

PUBLISHED Nov 9, 2011

Despite hailing from Edinburgh, Mike Scott became one of the central figures of Irish rock's renaissance during the '80s, leading the Water...

Cowboy Junkies

Sing In My Meadow

PUBLISHED Nov 9, 2011

Now three-quarters of the way through their Nomad Series, the Cowboy Junkies continue to use the project to fully explore aspects of their...

Various

This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45RPM (1957-1982)

PUBLISHED Nov 9, 2011

The precursor to this set, 2009's Fire In My Bones, was a revelation ― there really is no other word for it ― in terms of redis...

Tom Waits

The Bad And The Beautiful

PUBLISHED Oct 24, 2011

"The amount of time that you spend on anything should not, and will never, directly correspond to how important or interesting it is," Tom...

Tom Waits Opens Up about 'Bad As Me,' Reflects on Captain Beefheart

PUBLISHED Oct 21, 2011

While we've known since February that Tom Waits was working on a new album of original songs, it wasn't until late August that any further...