Johnny Cash

  • ZZ Ward on Getting Back to The Blues (3/16 at City Winery)

    “I’ve been wanting to do Liberation for so long.  I knew I wanted to move further into the blues…  The music that really got me started was the blues,” says ZZ Ward, referring to her forthcoming fourth studio album, Liberation, which drops this Friday, March 14th, courtesy of the...
  • Dustin Kensrue Takes His Love Letter to the Southwest on the Road (5/4 at Underground Arts)

    “I always think of the intense smell of the alley behind The Trocadero.  I often think of that when I think of the worst smell I’ve ever smelled,” says Dustin Kensrue, laughing, discussing the many times he was at the legendary Chinatown venue fronting post-hardcore legends Thrice.  However, he...
  • Mara Connor Talks COVID and Covers

    Last week Southern California singer/songwriter Mara Connor released the Decades EP, a celebration of some of the greatest songs of the second half of the twentieth century and also some of Connor’s best musical friends, with whom she collaborated on the five-song EP.  Connor covers songs by Fats Domino,...
  • Thunderpussy: “It’s Rock’N’Roll for fuck’s sake.” (Saturday at MilkBoy)

    “I love it when people are skeptical about our name,” says Whitney Petty, lead guitarist of Thunderpussy. “Older women — and I just mean older than me — are like, ‘What is this music? My kids like it and it’s so vulgar,’ or ‘My kid wears their T-shirt and...