Irish Singer Janet Devlin Reveals Herself With Her “Confessional”
LOS ANGELES, CA- Several years ago, Blurred Culture was able to spend some time with the singer-songwriter, Janet Devlin. We learned then that this young lass had a passion and determination that burned stronger than most. She candidly opened up to us about a…
Leon Bridges and Khruangbin’s Laid Back Tribute to The Lone Star State
AUSTIN, TX- Many albums and songs have been made throughout the history of music as odes to certain cities. The Clash’s London Calling comes to mind or maybe even Guns N’ Roses’ rambunctious dedication to Los Angeles in the form of Welcome to the Jungle….
If I Go 10,000 Miles
WOODSTOCK, NY — “I didn’t realize you would be standing all around us,” Anaïs Mitchell remarked to audience members gazing down from the balcony behind the stage. “I’m missing a couple of buttons to the back of my dress!” Over the crowd’s chuckling, Josh Kaufman…
Breaking Down the Walls
NEW YORK, NY — December sure can do a number on us, with end-of-year existential accounting and the often-inverse relationship between time spent with extended family and feelings of goodwill. My folks are on the other side of the Pacific, and ultra-long-haul flights leave ample…
CATS Is So Bad … It’s Good
HOLLYWOOD, CA- I feel the need to start out by saying that I did not pay to see Cats. Well, not money at any rate. I managed to dig up some ancient passes for a theater nowhere near my home, but my friend and I…
This is London Calling
NEW YORK, NY- “This is London Calling” — these words were the BBC World Service‘s opening for broadcasts to occupied countries during World War II. For those living abroad, the radio tagline must have felt like a beacon of light, providing a connection to…
Time Is Tight: The Memoir of Booker T. Jones
LOS ANGELES, CA- “Life was meant to be lived in the key of C. It was the simplest, least complex key. It had no sharps or flats and was beautiful and pleasing to the ear…I believed that C was the natural key for the earth,…
Joseph Arthur’s achingly beautiful album explores beginning again
BROOKLYN, NY — Human experience is far more nuanced than the binary of happy and sad. We can be filled with wide expanses of unhealed geography and yet be whole. Augusten Burroughs explores this concept in “How to Live Unhappily Ever After,” and his…
The Band Camino Floods the Sold Out Room with all the Emotions
CARRBORO, NC- Self-proclaimed as “your mom’s favorite band”, The Band Camino is a dynamic group from Memphis, Tennessee that consists of Jeffery Jordan (vocals/lead guitar), Spencer Stewart (vocals/guitar), Graham Rowell (bass) and Garrison Burgess (drums). Formed back in 2015, they seamlessly thread together rock…
Dancing in the Doom Days
NEW YORK, NY- Madison Square Garden’s Hulu Theater was cloaked in darkness as the fog machines kicked in. The only source of light was the eerie red gleam emanating from the screen behind the stage and the soft glow of neon bracelets worn by front-row…
