Tonight, the fourth annual Open Highway Music Festival kicks off at Off Broadway in St. Louis with a set by Austin’s Bob Schneider. Sam Gregg will open the show. Speakers in Code is proud to once again be an official supporter for the fourth consecutive year. Tickets are on sale for each night of the … Read more
i see me as i was, you as you were before the color began to bleed out of us What a track to kick off the new Ha Ha Tonka record. I mean, what a track. “Colorful Kids” sounds both like and unlike Missouri’s Ha Ha Tonka; it’s rife with Brett Anderson’s machine-gun mandolin lines, and … Read more
Summer is over, but we’re not sweating autumn. No, we’ve got some fine albums to look forward to, starting tomorrow with a new dose of tunes from one of our favorite bands, Ha Ha Tonka. Let’s all celebrate falling leaves, pumpkins, candy corn, and the dozen upcoming albums listed below! Ha Ha Tonka, Lessons (9/24) HAIM, Days Are … Read more
Well, another trip around the sun. And here we are. Again, we haven’t listened to every release. We haven’t listened to every genre. And we know many of you are probably tired of lists. But, like we mentioned last year, this is all about discovery. And again like last year, with discovery being the reason … Read more
Ladies and Gentleman, we pulled a Bud Selig. We have a tie. You’re just gonna have to listen to both of our #1’s very carefully and break it yourself. In any case, here are The 50 Best Albums of 2013 . . . according to us (with convenient links to stream, because we love you). … Read more
Photo by Jason Gonulsen “I’m old enough to know that I could probably get away with it still,” Brian Roberts of Ha Ha Tonka sings on “Dead To the World,” the lead track from their latest album, Lessons, released on Bloodshot Records. To get away with anything isn’t the point these days for the band … Read more
Ha Ha Tonka, backstage after their second encore of the evening | Photo by Jason Gonulsen I see me as I was, you as you were Me as I was, you as you were Before the color began to bleed Out of us One day all of this will end. The post-Thanksgiving Ha Ha Tonka … Read more
We can blame it on the circumstances Oh, at least we took the chances we had to I used to sing this song with a pretty special person on long drives rolling down lonesome highways. From the first time we heard it, we knew it was for us, especially the lyrics noted above. We would … Read more
Photo by Todd Roeth No, we’re never gonna have much Myself I’d take such as a compliment We can blame it on the circumstances Oh, at least we took the chances we had to Why we’re attracted to a certain song, a certain album, or a certain band is a mystery. I really do believe … Read more
As we make our way into the second half of 2012, we want to take a minute to look back at what we saw, what we wrote, who we spoke to, and who we shot in January through June. In the coming days, we’ll also be posting our favorite songs of the first half of … Read more
Back in September of 2010, we made Union Tree Review’s “Let Me Be” the Pajammy Jam of the Day (as in a slow, made for bedtime kinda song). We wrote that “Let Me Be” is a chugging, acoustic train, reminiscent of Ryan Adams: brilliant lyricism, piano in all the right places, plenty o’ references to booze … Read more