On April Fools' Day 1994, Patterson Hood moved to Athens, where he wrote an album's worth of songs called Murdering Oscar (and other love songs). He recorded them on a boombox in a friend's bedroom and gave out the results... CONTINUE READING THE 'GUM DROP XCI: HEAR NEW PATTERSON HOOD, WIN A KORG KAOSSILATOR DYNAMIC PHRASE SYNTHESIZER»
Posted on June 3, 2009 in , (10 comments)
Tags: Drive-By Truckers | Leeds | Patterson Hood | Radiohead | The Mary Onettes
Drive-By Trucker Patterson Hood releases his second solo LP, Murdering Oscar (and other love songs), 6/23 on Ruth St. Records. On it he's backed by his DBT bandmates, members of Centro-matic, and (for the first time) his dad David Hood,... CONTINUE READING NEW PATTERSON HOOD - "POLYANNA" & "PRIDE OF THE YANKEES"»
Posted on April 16, 2009 (0 comments)
Tags: Centro-matic | David Hood | Drive-By Truckers | Patterson Hood | Thee Oh Sees
Next month, onetime Drive-By Trucker Jason Isbell, along with his 400 Unit, is releasing a self-titled album. We're told the opening track "Seven-Mile Island" is "an oblique eulogy" to Alabama harmonica player Topper Price. It's also a story about: [A]... CONTINUE READING NEW JASON ISBELL - "SEVEN-MILE ISLAND"»
Posted on January 28, 2009 in , (2 comments)
Tags: Bumbershoot | Drive-By Truckers | Jason Isbell | Jemina Pearl | Natalie Portman's Shaved Head
Patterson always speaks to the big issues of the day, whether it's Thriller's anniversary or demanding records, so you knew he wasn't gonna sit this one out. Tomorrow's Election Day and the Drive-By Truckers' main man will be damned if... CONTINUE READING PATTERSON HOOD AIMS TO GET OUT THE VOTE WITH AN MP3»
Posted on November 3, 2008 in (5 comments)
Tags: Doves | Drive-By Truckers | Patterson Hood | Paul McCartney
This weekend San Francisco hosted the first-ever Outside Lands Festival. We're still nursing hangovers from a long summer of fests, so in our stead we sent Heather of I Am Fuel You Are Friends to take it in, and take... CONTINUE READING OUTSIDE LANDS 2008 IN PHOTOS»
Posted on August 25, 2008 in (23 comments)
Tags: Beck | Bon Iver | CAKE | Coachella | Coup | Drive-By Truckers | Everest | Fucked Up | Liars | Matt Nathanson | Outside Lands | Primal Scream | Radiohead | Regina Spektor | Stars | The Felice Brothers | Wilco
This black and white Lex Halaby-directed clip finds Detroit's own Bettye LaVette alone at the Lockeroom Lounge, blowing smoke, drinking too much wine, looking at photos, staring at the walls, and singing about what it's like to grow old and... CONTINUE READING NEW BETTYE LAVETTE VIDEO - "TALKING OLD SOLDIERS"»
Posted on August 14, 2008 in , (3 comments)
Tags: Bettye LaVette | Drive-By Truckers | Ra Ra Riot | Throbbing Gristle
The tents are collapsed, the recycling collected, the hippies headed to the showers (j/k hippies don't take showers). Bonnaroo '08 now belongs to the chemically enhanced memories of its campers, and to message boards worldwide as people bitch about... CONTINUE READING BONNAROO: IT'S A (PHOTO) WRAP»
Posted on June 16, 2008 in (7 comments)
Tags: Adele | Alison Krauss | Bonnaroo | Brendan Benson | Drive-By Truckers | Jack White | José González | M.I.A. | Robert Plant | T-Bone Burnett | Tegan And Sara | The Fiery Furnaces | The Raconteurs | Vampire Weekend
Months after prematurely analyzing Brighter Than Creations Dark, the album's still in fairly steady rotation, so it's nice to see live takes of a few standouts. Though we would've loved to see "Righteous Path," you can't complain about Cooley's "A... CONTINUE READING DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS DRIVE BY THE INTERFACE»
Posted on March 21, 2008 in (1 comments)
Tags: Drive-By Truckers
Last week we linked to a stream of Thriller 25 (in stores today), which includes a 25-year-old rarity ("For All Time") with new vocals, and 2008 collabs with will.i.am, Fergie, and folks who aren't even in Black Eyed Peas. If you're not yet sick of MJ nostalgia, read Patterson Hood's "Smell the Glove," the Drive-By Trucker's column in the new Paste. "For the record, I consider 'Billie Jean' one of the definitive singles of the entire Rock Era and a piece of pop songwriting at its best." Also, he thinks Off The Wall is the best MJ album? Maybe it's a Southern thing.
Posted on February 12, 2008 (10 comments)
After hints and clues, Bonnaroo's 2008 lineup's been announced. They've confirmed Lez Zeppelin, but not Led Zeppelin. Though Robert Plant will show up to shuffle along with Alison Krauss. In their seventh year, Bonnaroo's also bringing... CONTINUE READING BONNAROO 2008 LINEUP: METALLICA AND PEARL JAM, BUT NO LED ZEPPELIN»
Posted on February 6, 2008 (61 comments)
Tags: Bonnaroo | Death Cab For Cutie | Drive-By Truckers | Iron And Wine | M.I.A. | Mastodon | Metallica | My Morning Jacket | Pearl Jam | Rilo Kiley | Robert Plant | Tegan And Sara | Vampire Weekend
In a letter dated 1/22, which was sent to fans in celebration of Brighter Than Creation's Dark's official release, Drive-By Trucker Patterson Hood opens by explaining "my record" is now "our record" before moving onto the crux of his missive.... CONTINUE READING PATTERSON HOOD ON "DEMANDING" RECORDS, AND HIS FAVE CLASSIC ROCK LPS»
Posted on January 23, 2008 (1 comments)
Tags: Drive-By Truckers | R.E.M.
Drive-By Truckers' new opus officially comes out tomorrow, but you can stream it today at CMT. Since evaluating it prematurely, the record's been on the regular playlist at Stereogum Headquarters: We still say it's too long, but it's started feeling shorter. Current favorites: "The Righteous Path," "Two Daughters And A Beautiful Wife," "Daddy Needs A Drink," "The Man I Shot," etc. Hell, at this point we even like the heavily contested "Bob." Though it feels like "You And Your Crystal Meth" will stink forever.
Posted on January 21, 2008 (2 comments)
We've been spending a lot of time with the mostly super Brighter Than Creation's Dark, trying to play pedal steel along with "The Opening Act" and watching which less-immediate songs bloom, all the time curious to know how many debates... CONTINUE READING NEW LIVE DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS - "THE MAN I SHOT"»
Posted on January 16, 2008 in (1 comments)
Tags: Drive-By Truckers
We love us some Drive-By Truckers and their southern-fried opera-writing ways, but Brighter Than Creation's Dark is longer than creation's long. Maybe longer. By our estimation, they could've chopped about eight of the 19 tracks and still had themselves a... CONTINUE READING PREMATURE EVALUATION: DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS - BRIGHTER THAN CREATION'S DARK»
Posted on January 11, 2008 in (25 comments)
Tags: Drive-By Truckers
Jason Isbell moved on and prospered from his questionably amicable split with Southern-fried Stereofaves Drive-By Truckers, and now the moon's shining on DB-T's turns in the studio. A few months ago they backed up Bettye, here they're kicking up shit... CONTINUE READING NEW DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS - "THE RIGHTEOUS PATH" & "I'M SORRY HUSTON"»
Posted on December 14, 2007 in (7 comments)
Tags: Drive-By Truckers
The swaggering 61-year-old Detroit soul singer Bettye LaVette has teamed with our favorite Southern rockers for her forthcoming album The Scene Of The Crime: 45 years after recording "My Man – He's A Lovin' Man" at the age of 16,... CONTINUE READING NEW BETTYE LAVETTE (FEAT. DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS) - "YOU DON'T KNOW ME AT ALL" (STEREOGUM PREMIERE)»
Posted on August 3, 2007 in (16 comments)
Tags: Bettye LaVette | Drive-By Truckers
Biggest news in recent months from camp Drive-By came from the departure of Jason Isbell, with John Neff being promoted to full-time status in the band's Southern-fried three axe attack. And since then, those crazy mother Truckers have been on... CONTINUE READING DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS PREVIEW NEW MATERIAL, BACK-UP BETTYE»
Posted on June 8, 2007 (7 comments)
Tags: Bettye LaVette | Drive-By Truckers
Cool project for R.E.M. lovers. Back in September of '06, a host of Athens artists including Drive-By Truckers' Patterson Hood, Tin Cup Prophette, and The Observatory (featuring 14 Elephant 6ers) pulled together to pay live tribute to the city's favorite... CONTINUE READING FINEST WORKSONGS: ATHENS BANDS PLAY THE MUSIC OF R.E.M.»
Posted on April 24, 2007 in (4 comments)
Tags: Drive-By Truckers | R.E.M.
Sad news for Drive-By Trucker lovers, as one-third of the band's ass-whuppin' three axe attack has decided to part ways with the band, amicably. Jason Isbell joined the group after the band's breakthrough Southern Rock Opera and wrote his way... CONTINUE READING JASON ISBELL WAVES "BYE" TO DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS»
Posted on April 7, 2007 (28 comments)
Tags: Drive-By Truckers | Jason Isbell
New West is promoting DBT's latest album A Blessing And A Curse by posting a new live mp3 or studio outtake every day this month at letthereberocktober.com. "The blessing is that by the end of the month, you can collect... CONTINUE READING DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS ROCKTOBER»
Posted on October 3, 2006 (3 comments)
Tags: Drive-By Truckers
Athens rockers 5-8, Drive-By Trucker Patterson Hood, and others join Stipe, Buck and Mills on "It's The End Of The World As We Know It" at the 40 Watt Club earlier this week. Watch Patterson's "So. Central Rain" here. All... CONTINUE READING LEONARD BERNSTEIN!»
Posted on September 14, 2006 in (25 comments)
Tags: Drive-By Truckers | R.E.M.
Happy Valentine's Day! Yes, we're so far ahead of the curve we're not even going to MENTION New Year's Eve. It's always a letdown anyway, right? This awesome nugget of tough love is from Drive-By Truckers' A Blessing And A... CONTINUE READING NEW DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS - "FEB. 14"»
Posted on December 30, 2005 in (4 comments)
Tags: Drive-By Truckers
Some photos that were left out of VH1's roundup, so ONE more Bonnaroo 2005 post (and two MP3s)... Matisyahu Meets Mike Gordon At 17, the future Hasidic reggae-rapper followed Phish on the road. In this photo he and Gordo are... CONTINUE READING LAST BONNAROO POST, I PROMISE: PART 2»
Posted on June 18, 2005 in (25 comments)
Tags: Bonnaroo | Drive-By Truckers | Jenny Lewis | My Morning Jacket | Rilo Kiley
Didja miss me? I tried to see as many Bonnaroo bands as possible. It's hard 'cause they all play at the same time. Fortunately I ran into my friend Stacey who lemme hitch a ride on her golf cart... CONTINUE READING BOUNCING ROUND THE 'ROO»
Posted on June 14, 2005 (37 comments)
Tags: American Music Awards | Bonnaroo | Dave Matthews | Drive-By Truckers | Kanye West | Modest Mouse | My Morning Jacket | Nona Hendryx | Phoenix | Rilo Kiley
Chuck Klosterman, the cool-obsessed pop culture essayist who loves Kiss but believes "Coldplay is absolutely the shittiest fucking band I've ever heard in my entire life" (Pg. 3), has compiled a list of recent "high-quality" albums May Esquire readers can... CONTINUE READING CHUCK KLOSTERMAN'S 21 CDS FROM THE PAST 3 YEARS»
Posted on May 2, 2005 (59 comments)
Tags: Chuck Klosterman | Courtney Love | Drive-By Truckers | My Morning Jacket | The Hold Steady | The Lemonheads | TV On The Radio | Weezer
