A shindig for the season
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff When Robb Talbott and his wife, Tasha, lived in West Virginia, they frequented an annual event at a ski touring center meant to celebrate the changing of the seasons...
Category: Music
A feeling and a sound
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Celtic interpretations of Christmas tunes have become a staple of holiday season playlists, but rarely are they performed with the sheer talent, pedigree and affinity of Affinití, the trio...
What goes around comes around
By Ben Olson Reader Staff The Recording Industry Association of America noted in its mid-year 2019 report that vinyl records earned $224.1 million in the first half of the year, which is closing in...
A homemade show
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Each year when Sandpoint natives Laurie and Katelyn Shook come home to play their annual Giving Thanks show at the Panida Theater, they put in work. From self promoting...
They got the funk
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Running into people at the grocery store can often be a nuisance, but for Nights of Neon, it was a stroke of good fortune. The band had been forming...
Reliving Janis
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Janis Joplin came onto the national music scene like a flash in a pan, making an everlasting impact on rock music in what amounted to fewer than five years...
In good company
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Isabelle Stillman’s sound is described as “a tapestry of her love of family, the confusion of growing up, the reality of being a woman in our society and her...
Party like it’s 2019
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It’s one thing to admire the musical oeuvre and sartorial style of iconic pop-rocker Prince, and another thing entirely to imitate him. Many have tried, and the sonic graveyard...
Sound and color
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Growing up in Ventura, Calif., Berto Boyd remembers being surrounded by creative and talented people. He also recalls how drugs and gangs were becoming more prominent. “I was always...
Folk-grass album release concert Saturday
By Ben Olson Reader Staff For the past 18 years, singer-songwriter Kevin Brown has hosted a bluegrass radio show on Spokane Public Radio called Front Porch Bluegrass. In those almost two decades, Brown has...
