After a brief hiatus during which we completely exhausted ourselves running the Soul of the Blues Festival, we’re back with a special Long Island Blues edition of the Indie Round-Up. INDIE ROUND-UP for August 11 2005 === Kerry Kearney, Secrets from the Psychedelta Slide guitar master Kerry Kearney is both …

The cover story of this week’s Time Out New York is about good places to go when you’re stoned. That’s right: high on marijuana, an illegal drug. And despite a loose tie-in to the new TV show Weeds, the article really is what it purports to be. Hooray for freedom …

With the opening bars you know right where you are: back in 1966 San Francisco, tripping your brains out.

Lately I‘ve been paying a lot of attention to Sen. Rick Santorum. Among politicians, he’s unusually good at articulating the views of the Christian right, and he’s also willing to debate on the record. Flogging his new book, It Takes a Family, on WNYC yesterday, Santorum accused the Left of …

Chassan's witty but heartfelt music speaks truth to the fool in all of us.

Corey Harris has that rare ability to sound like himself and always at home no matter what musical veins he’s tapping. His spiritual-musical journeys to Africa, explorations of Caribbean styles, and American blues and soul roots all contribute to the smooth pleasures of his new CD. It’s possible to appreciate …

Opponents of the death penalty may have finally found their “smoking gun” – a case in which an innocent person may have been executed. Many people have been exonerated while on death row, but the United States has never had a case in which an executed person was later proven …

This special Bastille Day edition of the Indie Round-Up comes to you from my own prison cell of the mind. Fortunately there is music. But will there be fireworks? Read on. It’s brief – there’s only one CD review. (Got a couple of others but they were too uninspiring to …

More than one man has worn the moniker “Bobby Purify” since the southern soul duo James and Bobby Purify – best known for its smash hit “I’m Your Puppet” – began its career in the mid-1960s. Though singer-guitarist Ben Moore wasn’t on board at the start, he’s been Bobby Purify …

This time around, from my mailbox to your computer screen, we’ve got Heartlanders, Hornicators, and the (so far, anyway!) Acoustic Album of the Year. Read on, dear listeners, for here is the one and only… INDIE ROUND-UP for June 30 2005 === Thomas Truax, Audio Addiction Thomas Truax invents his …