High Road Touring

[Rolling Stone] Brittany Howard’s planned solo set at Tuscaloosa benefit concert instead becomes band’s first show in over seven years By Daniel Kreps Alabama Shakes staged a surprise reunion Wednesday night in Tuscaloosa as a planned Brittany Howard solo show instead turned into the band’s first concert together since 2017. Howard was booked to perform a “short and intimate” ...

[Billboard] Rateliff now has six leaders with the Night Sweats and one solo. By Kevin Rutherford  Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats ascend to No. 1 on Billboard’s Adult Alternative Airplay chart dated Dec. 7 with “Call Me (Whatever You Like).” Band leader Rateliff now boasts seven Adult Alternative Airplay leaders overall – six with the Night Sweats and one, ...

[The New Yorker] By Amanda Petrusich 14. “What Now” Brittany Howard If anyone is presently poised to inherit Prince’s mantle, it’s Brittany Howard, the former front woman of the indefinitely sidelined Southern rock band Alabama Shakes. Howard is a visionary; she can write an earworm, but is more interested in work that melts the boundaries between genres. “What ...

[Pitchfork] By Linnie Greene The singer and composer scale down their collaboration for a grief-saturated set of songs filled with austere piano melodies and diaristic reflections. Grief saturates Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn’s Quiet in a World Full of Noise, as integral to the record’s beauty as ghosts are to a gothic novel’s tone. The air between ...

[Rolling Stone] Thirty years after the release of his “big, pompous” second solo album, Pixies frontman is reviving his solo career to give it its due, finally By Kory Grow In the early Eighties, Charles Thompson was such a swell, upstanding, likable young man that his high school teachers recognized him with “a funny little dinky ...