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Welcome back. We’ve missed you. This is eighth year of our Newport coverage, including our really fantastic article in the Newport Mercury in ’08, and it’s safe to say, the festival’s been on an upward trend for us. It’s also safe to say that we, at Ravings, are familiar with how exhausting and draining these kinds of festivals can be on us. It is safe to say, we are rather curmudgeonly. We rain on all parades. (c) Dr. Seuss, and illus. by Chuck Jones, we think. Here is what it boils down to: it’s hard to enjoy a three-day, four-stage music-gasm knowing that we’re stillRead More →

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Sallie Ford (+SOS, -electricity) at Newport, 2011 In a few more weekends, the sheet (music) will hit the fan. It’s that time (of the season) for probably our favorite festival. Probably? Almost certainly. Almost certainly? We can do better than that.It’s about time for the Newport Folk Festival. It took us a little while to do another writeup on it. Why? Lack of inspiration, laziness, lack of direction. Working on a book (or two). But last night, we realized why we had to come back; speaking to a friend, whom we’d met at last year’s, there really is something different about this “little” fest. ARead More →

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Talk in Tongues – Alone with a FriendFairfax Recordings-out tomorrow3 / 5 We’re going to have to admit something: we’re a bit stumped when it comes to reviewing the L.A. quartet’s debut LP. Alone with a Friend is one of those psych-rock albums that is put together well, that is overall pretty good, that definitely has some singles in it, that… Still merits only 3 stars from us. Here’s why. We’ve had this album on our listening shelf for almost a month. Ultimately, we spun it up only about four or five times in that length of time, and we’re still feeling a bit onRead More →