On the Road with the Black Pumas
The Black Pumas are a heavy-grooving soul-rock band from Austin that came together around the collaboration of big-hearted singer Eric Burton and Grammy-winning guitarist and producer Adrian Quesada. Quesada has a rich background playing and producing soul, funk, and Latin music, and he earned his Grammy as a member of Grupo Fantasma in 2010. (The…
On the Road With Lee Fields & The Expressions
With the release last month of It Rains Love, one of his most nuanced and hypnotically grooving albums yet, Lee Fields is celebrating 50 years as a soul journeyman. Fields, who has deep roots in the golden era of funk and soul, paved the way for artists like Sharon Jones and Charles Bradley—he counts them…
On the Road with J.S. Ondara
Six years ago, Kenyan folk singer J.S. Ondara left his home country behind to live with an aunt in Minneapolis and pursue his dream of becoming a musician. Though he was wholly unprepared for the windchills of the northern Midwest, he’s been able to channel his experience as a stranger in a strange land into…
Up Close and Personal with San Francisco’s Original Punks
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Long before it became a playground for budding millionaires, San Francisco was a city filled with freaks. Its punk scene, like a lot of early punk scenes, drew art students, outcasts, weirdos, and plenty of people just looking for a new kind of kick. Ruby…
On the Road With Jacob Collier
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Earlier this month, we went to Irving Plaza in New York City to get to know Jacob Collier, the 24-year-old hyper-kinetic, preternaturally talented British composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist. Collier began releasing YouTube videos in his teens that featured complex arrangements of pop songs and playfully…
Forget the Neon—This New Photo Collection Shows Darkness and Decay Along America’s Highway
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Robert Frank’s mid-’50s photographic romp around the United States—captured in his seminal book The Americans—canonized the road trip as a photographic right-of-passage. Since then, many notable photographers have taken the temperature of the country via the open road, with varying degrees of success. Among the…