Motion Family‘s new video for Jackie Chain’s Alabama trunk-rattler “Parked Outside,” like the song that accompanies it, works as a celebration of tricked-out ancestral American automobiles. As rap videos go, it’s not exactly revolutionary, but Motion Family know how to film the usual rap-video sc...

Ruthie Foster's will release her new album, Let It Burn, on January 31st

Right now, Ryan Adams is on tour behind his excellent new album Ashes & Fire. And at a recent San Francisco show, he and opener Jason Isbell, the former Drive-By Truckers member, got together onstage to cover “Love In The First Degree,” the 1981 hit from the bearded-up establishment-country band Alabama. The Adams/Is...

The Huntsville, Alabama rap duo G-Side have a new album called Island coming soon, and now they’ve given us the single “Hot Sex N Cold Wine.” As you’ve probably figured out from the title, this one is all about doin’ it, and if a song can be NSFW, then this one is. Headphones up, and [...]

The Blind Boys of Alabama will embark on an extensive North American concert tour this fall