I’ve posted a lot about last weekend’s Forecastle Festival in Louisville, but this is the last separate gallery I’m editing. The rest of the photos will soon be in an album on the hissing lawns Facebook page. Diarrhea Planet‘s performance…
Noah Gunderson is based in Seattle and obviously has a big following somewhere. He’s got over 50,000 likes on Facebook, but not a single one of those people is among my 3,400+ friends, a group that includes plenty of musicians,…
I had heard enough of The Revivalists from New Orleans to know that I wanted to see the 7-piece soul/rock band at Forecastle Festival last weekend, but I wasn’t prepared for the sheer energy of the afternoon set. This video…
Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds is a big soul and funk band from Brooklyn, but as I watched them on the WFPK Port Stage last week at Forecastle Festival in Louisville, I assumed they were based in the deep…
This Parker Millsap KEXP session is a year old, but I’m sharing it here because it begins with the delightfully perverse “Quite Contrary”, which was one of the highlights of Millsap & co.’s set on the opening day of Forecastle…
OK, I’m late to the Houndmouth fan club, but the band from New Albany, Ind. (across the Ohio from Louisville) was one of my favorite acts at Forecastle Festival 2015. Such a talented and versatile foursome, and the new album…
Ahead of last weekend’s Forecastle Festival in Louisville, I obviously sampled music from all the bands I didn’t know, including White Reaper. I immediately loved the garage rock sound, so I added them to my list. I had no idea…
Carrie Ann Hearst is 7 1/2 months pregnant, but she seemed to relish the sun and heat on Saturday afternoon in front of a huge crowd at Forecastle Festival along the banks of the Ohio River in Louisville. Hearst and…
On the final afternoon of Forecastle Festival 2015, I finally stopped by the Forecastle Foundation booth near the Mast Stage in Louisville’s gorgeous, sprawling Waterfront Park. The Forecastle Foundation seems both idealistic and pragmatic in its approach to environmental preservation…
Day 2 of Forecastle Festival in Louisville got started an hour late because of the vicious storm the night before, and the day was blazing hot at times, but the music was even hotter. I’ll write some more commentary in…