• Another Punch Brothers video

    Punch Brothers have released another brief video snippet from their new album, Who's Feeling Young Now?, available today from Nonesuch Records. This time it's the song New York City, with Chris Thile and the gang pictured in the studio. Perhaps all

  • Road To Roosky videos

    The Carter Brothers have released a pair of impromptu videos featuring material found on their new Compass CD, The Road To Roosky. Tim, the banjo playing brother, tells us what to expect right up front on this roots-oriented look at where

  • Sweet Dixie and InMotion

    In my own small brush with posterity, I once exchanged emails with Craig Newmark of Craig’s List back in 1997. I had run an ad on the San Francisco-based bulletin board system that read, “Free beer and Bluegrass in Fairfax this

  • Smilin’ Jim Mills on TV

    Banjo master Jim Mills is the subject of a short documentary piece produced by UNC-TV, the public television service at the University of North Carolina. The video starts with a musical biography on Mills, covering his early discovery of the banjo

  • Abigail Washburn in China

    Abigail Washburn spent November and December of 2011 in China, touring along the ancient Silk Road which once served as a trade route between China and the West. The tour was in the form of a cultural exchange, funded by

  • Another Punch Brothers preview

    Here's a second video preview from the upcoming Punch Brothers CD, Who's Feeling Young Now, due from Nonesuch on February 14. This one is for the song, Clara, which again shows Chris Thile and his merry band experimenting with the use

  • Expedition Quartet on NPR

    Experimental banjoist Jake Schepps and his Expedition Quartet are featured in a new edition of Tiny Desk Concerts at NPR.org. They perform music from their recent album, An Evening In The Village, which includes new arrangements of the music of Béla

  • Nightflyer in the studio

    We posted once before about Nightflyer, a new band recently formed by Rick Hayes, who spent many years as the mandolinist with The Gibson Brothers. Hayes, along with Richard Propps on guitar, Tim Jackson on dobro, Ronnie Stewart (not this one)

  • Trailblazer video from The Roys

    Brother/sister duet partners The Roys have just released a music video for Trailblazer, one of the songs from their 2011 Rural Rhythm release, Lonesome Whistle. The track is also being released as a single to radio. It showcases Elaine Roy as

  • Punch Brothers video preview

    Nonesuch has released a video preview for the first single from the upcoming Punch Brothers project. The new album, Who's Feeling Young Now?, is set for release February 14 on both CD and vinyl LP, with a variety of pre-order specials