Chris K Davidson

Performer Magazine

COVER STORY: Courtney Barnett Opens Up About Her Creative Process on New LP

And spit out better words than you’
But you didn’t
Man you’re kidding yourself if you think
The world revolves around you”
So sings Melbourne, Australia’s Courtney Barnett on “Nameless Faceless,” a song addressed to internet trolls and the first single released from her much-anticipated second LP, Tell Me How You Really Feel. This song is just the beginning as Barnett does not hold back in rest of the follow-up to 2016’s critically lauded Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit.

B-Metro

Not a Bad Seat in the House

Home concerts give music lovers an up-close view of favorite artists or a chance to discover new ones.
Photography by Eric Dejuan
The prospect of entering the house of a person you do not know to spend a few hours with 20 to 40 strangers watching a musician seems, on the surface, nerve wracking and slightly unthinkable. But in its usual magical way, Birmingham makes this situation work.
Granted, these types of performances have been around for decades and the term for them varies depending on...

B-Metro

Game Changers

Aug 1, 2013 ... The people behind Flying Monkey Interactive aren't just playing games. By Chris K. Davidson Photography by Beau Gustafson Cute little virtual....

Magic City Bands

Tonight: Counting Crows

Interview with Adam Duritz of Counting Crows

Alarm

Q&A: Sleepwalking with Brian Fallon

“Time is a strange thing,” Brian Fallon said to me when I phoned him on the afternoon of January 31st as we both wondered how February was a mere 12 hours away.
“It seems like the older I get, time moves faster and faster. When I was a kid, it would just drag forever. But now it’s this ever-present ticking clock. Whenever you’re home, you’re always counting down to what’s next. ‘I’ve only got three weeks. I’ve only got two days.'”
Though his latest music output has slowed down just a tad from...

Performer Magazine

[INTERVIEW] FLEET FOXES Open up about new album, Crack-Up

Interview with Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes for Performer Magazine

Alarm

Q&A: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Doesn’t Need to Be Right

Formed during the late 90s in San Francisco and naming themselves after Marlon Brando‘s motorcycle club in The Wild One, the now LA-based trio, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, has put out seven albums of blistering garage rock that overpower the listener on both record and at the live show. Titles such as Beat The Devil’s Tattoo, Howl and Take Them On, On Your Own only hint at the visceral energy packed in the songs.
Though their latest album, Wrong Creatures, is coming five years after 2013’s S...

Under the Radar Mag

Loma Album Review

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Unconventional rhythms, melodies, and instrumentations drape themselves across the tracks of the self-titled full-length debut by Loma, a recent signing by Sub Pop that consists of Jonathan Meiburg of Shearwater and Cross Record's Emily Cross and Dan Duszynski. After touring throughout America and Europe, the two groups decided to join forces to see what songs they could create together.
The dark pop orchestration ...

Under the Radar Mag

Eels on “The Deconstruction”

Interviews, Music

Since the mid-1990s, Mark Oliver Everett (aka E) has crafted wildly inventive and stylized orchestral indie rock that blends the philosophical and the heartbreak without ever sounding overly calculating or sentimental. Aside from his records with his main outlet Eels, Everett has composed music for films such as Yes Man, played Brian in the Judd Apatow-produced Netflix series Love, written an autobiography (2007's Things the Grandchildren Should Know...

The Big Takeover

The Sound of A Revolution: This Is American Music

“Southern Indie” label This Is American Music shows there’s more than meets the eye in their home region and reveals the importance of community in the music business....

Alarm

Q&A Noah Gundersen Won't Get Lost in White Noise - ALARM

Interview with Noah Gundersen about his new album, WHITE NOISE

Under the Radar Mag

Album of the Week: Wye Oak

In the Google's documentary, Merge Records: 25 Years in 24 Minutes, Wye Oak frontwoman Jenn Wasner discusses how the help she received from label cofounder Laura Ballance kept the band continuing even after Wasner's romantic breakup with drummer Andy Stack. Fortunately, for us, the band sounds stronger than ever at 12 years old and with the release of their sixth LP, The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs.
Wye Oak's latest batch of songs firmly addresses the imperfections found in a w...

The Gospel Coalition

How One Church Is Making Scripture Sing

Growing up in the modern worship boom of the mid-2000s, where thousands flocked to Passion conferences and CCM mainstays started releasing “worship records’’ that flew off shelves, I became quite fond of the latest and greatest in the genre. But though these contemporary songs stirred my heart for worship leading, they also had the unintentional effect of steering my interest away from what I perceived as the remnant of older generations: hymns.
The summer after my freshman year of college, h...

Magic City Bands

Tonight: David Ramirez at Saturn

Though he has been based in the music capital of Austin, Texas for the last several years, David Ramirez has spent a lot of his time touring the country with little more than a car and his guitar.
“In four years, I’ve traveled 160,000 miles/And the wind keeps pulling me” – “Stick Around”. Apologies (2012)
The last few times he has come through Birmingham, he has stuck to that guitar, vocal mic, and barstool combination at venues like WorkPlay and Bottletree, and he frequently plays shows with...