In Tune: Dispatches from Harvest Fest
If Wakarusa is a purple-dreaded starlet, whirling barefoot in the grass, a flash of body paint, bikini bottoms and chemical haze, Mulberry Mountain’s other giant party, Harvest Fest, is her well-studied older sister—maxi-skirt swaying to the beat, moonshine rounding the campfire, pungent smoke rising from the crowd.
Kari Faux is the Real Deal
A Little Rock rapper gets Lost en Los Angeles.
Young Gods of America: Homegrown Hip Hop
YGOA carves out a Little Rock scene and takes risks for fame and fortune.
Mud, Music and Magic: Dancing, hugs, a couple of duds, rain and other impressions from 4 days of Wakarusa
Wakarusa has a reputation as a longtime jam-band festival that increasingly caters to the blissed-out, hula-hooping hippie's alter ego, the electronically fueled, dance-all-night party kid.
Adventures in Austin
Tracking Arkansans in Austin at South by Southwest 2013…also wrote this profile on the Little Rock rapper, SL Jones, while I was there.
Levis Releases Music in Pakistan
In Pakistan, Levis is focused on more than jeans.
The Best Record Store in Mississippi
The Little Big Store used to be little (a shed on a road with a plethora of abandoned buses) and ended up big, now occupying five rooms of a rambling train depot filled with (most likely) millions of records.
What’s In a Label?
Jackson is a tiny city, but the musicians are forming bands and the lawyers are forming…record labels?
Bentonia, MS: Stumbling Upon the Blues
Every summer, a little-known festival celebrates Hill Country blues.