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Blake Mills is Some Sort of Magician

Blake Mills is a player I only heard about recently and I’m not sure why because this dude is a god damn six string samurai.  He’s one of the most original guitarists I’ve seen in a long, long time.   I don’t want to guitar geek out on you too much here but this dudes got chops.  Mr….



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Rocky Votolato & Chuck Ragan | Kindred Spirit

I love both of these guys and apparently they love each other too so I would be remiss if I didn’t write a few words about this Split EP that they put out back in June. I was initially disappointed that it was a traditional Split with each artist contributing three individual songs apiece. I…




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Philly Concert Picks | August 26th – 29th

Wednesday the 26th: The Delta Saints / Stolen Rhodes / Thee, Idea Men @ Milkboy The Delta Saints are a great blues rock band from Nashville.  Stolen Rhodes and Thee, Idea Men are both excellent rock bands from right here in town.  Don’t miss this one. Thursday the 27th: Holy Ghost Tent Revival @ Triumph Brewing…



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Sam Beam & Ben Bridwell | Sing Into My Mouth

You probably know the voices behind this interesting cover album with the pretty bizarre name. The title comes from the Talking Heads’ song that they re-created to lead off this batch of songs so they can’t take full credit for that. What Beam can take credit for is his ever changing musical project (but not…




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What the Hell Have I Been Listening to? | Recovering from My First Visit to the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame

  It’s been about a month since I started my EBE sabbatical/road trip/bender and I’ve finally sobered up enough to get back to work. It may not always be pretty but gosh darnnit I’ve got myself a lot to say again. Disclaimer, I haven’t actually sobered up and most of this will be drunken, unintelligible…




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Philly Concert Picks: August 19th – 21st

Wednesday the 19th: Social Distortion and Lucero @ Festival Pier   Festival Pier is what it is and there’s probably going to be about a thousand people there and it’s going to be a total shit show.  But when is the next time you’ll be able to see Social Distortion and Lucero in the same…



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Philly Concert Picks August 6th – 9th

Thursday the 6th: Banditos @ Bourbon and Branch I was lucky enough to share the stage with these guys awhile back and they fucking kill it.  They’ve got a great down and dirty roots rock thing going on.  They sound a little bite like Futurebirds but dirtier.   Thursday the 6th: J. Roddy Walston & The…



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Ripple Green | Marble Arch

I’ll shoot it straight with you guys.  Here at EBE we get contacted fairly regularly from bands, managers or promoters trying get us to push a new single or an upcoming gig.   Through a combination of laziness and the fact that most of it just isn’t that good we ignore the majority of these inquiries….



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Philly Concert Picks | July 29th – August 1st

Wednesday the 29th: Jason Isbell @ The Electric Factory Former member of the Drive-By Truckers and a power house in his own right, Jason Isbell has become somewhat of a alt-country heavy weight.  Also Black Mills is opening for him… I hadn’t heard of this dude until recently but he’s fucking amazing….   Friday the 31st: St. James…



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Outside the Box Festival | Boston, MA 7/14/15-7/19/15

It’s not every Thursday that I sit on the grass of Boston Common and watch Greek Dancers. Actually, it’s not any day. Ever. And to be honest I wasn’t even sure they were Greek. There was live music playing that I could only describe as “international” and there were costumed dancers, that much I was…