Email Author Christian Schaeffer

2011 Stories by Christian Schaeffer

• Theodore Moves to Indie Powerhouse Misra Records, Releasing Vinyl in April

  published Jan 24, 2011

  2011 is shaping up to be a busy year for local noise-folk quartet Theodore. The band has plans to release both a ten-inch record and a full-length LP in the coming months, which will follow last year'... More >>

• Blood Pony

  published January 20, 2011

  Call it a mishmash, a hodgepodge or a catchall, but Blood Pony takes a kitchen-sink approach to orchestrating its roughshod folk songs. In... More >>

• Leon Redbone

  published January 20, 2011

  Few performers in the '70s cut a figure quite like Leon Redbone did. Nattily attired in a white linen suit and straw hat, to go along... More >>

• Various Artists: STL LOUD Volume 1 EP
  (self-released)

  published January 13, 2011

  STL LOUD Volume 1 is the brainchild of Ryan Albritton, the co-owner of and engineer at Dogtown's R&R Music Labs recording studio. The... More >>

• Mississippi Fever

  published January 6, 2011

  The experience of seeing live blues music — preferably late at night in a sweaty club after a night of boozing and carousing — is a... More >>

• Didion's Bible

  published January 6, 2011

  Author Joan Didion has always walked the line between first-person journalism and soul-scraping memoir writing in her essays. She chronicled a... More >>

• Generationals

  published January 6, 2011

  Despite a tart pop style and some notoriety from a Grey's Anatomy soundtrack appearance, the Eames Era never broke out of indie rock's... More >>

• Marrakesh Express

  published January 6, 2011

  Any guitar slinger worth his or her salt can dust off Neil Young's "Helpless" or Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth" and take a pretty... More >>