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Rolling Stone •

Derek Trucks Talks About New Live Album, the Allman Brothers

In between touring Japan, winning a Grammy, performing for the Obamas and playing The Apollo, Derek Trucks found some time in February to produce and complete a new live album: Everybody’s Talking, due May 22nd. For the first live release with his latest musical embodiment, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Trucks called in legendary mastering engineer, Bob Ludwig, who took home a Grammy of his own this year for his work with The Derek and the Dominoes Layla re-issue. Ludwig and Trucks combed through 12 sho...
New York Magazine •

Summer Road Trips -- New York Magazine - Nymag

How to Dominate the Highway According to 30-year truck driver Bob Wonsick, who spends eleven hours a day hauling up and down the East Coast.

1. Pack like a survivalist. “Think about what you’d need in the event you were stuck in your car for 24 to 36 hours.” That’s frozen bottles of water, nonperishable snacks, and duct tape (“It fixes everything”).

2. Duplicate your keys. “Invest the $5. Then place them inside a magnetic hide-a-key in a safe place outside of your vehicle.”

3. Dress fo...
HelloGiggles •

The Accidental Family Band: An Interview with Grouplove

“I don’t want to be that girl,” Hannah Hooper sighs, “but I kind of don’t feel like taking my sunglasses off.”Hooper and her bandmates in Grouplove, Christian Zucconi (guitar, vocals), Andrew Wessen (guitar, vocals), Sean Gadd (bass, vocals) and Ryan Rabin (drums), have been churning through interviews in the auroral corporate lounge of Atlantic Records’ midtown offices for the better part of the day and are noticeably punchy. I offer to assume my own shades and the rest of the band follows suit...
Rolling Stone •

Scott Weiland's Christmas Kitsch at City Winery

Fans waiting in line outside the sold-out Scott Weiland Most Wonderful Time of the Year show at City Winery last night seemed genuinely stoked on seeing the grunge-rock legend take the stage as a quasi-campy crooner. “If you’ve listened to all of his stuff – solo, STP, Velvet Revolver – it’s not that different,” said a 30-something long-time Weiland fan from Baltimore.  “He just wants to be Bowie. It all goes back to Bowie.” Weiland often cites Bowie, a master of metamorphosis, as a major musica...