Music - Sept. 20, 2007
Cradle-rocking Ani DiFranco rocked the Riverside, too
With an 8-month-old baby waiting in the wings, Ani DiFranco played a knock-out show at the Riverside last night.
Tags: Ani DiFranco, Riverside, Righteous Babe Records, Melissa Ferrick, New Orleans, folk, fingerstyle

Music - May 21, 2007
Stropes helped develop Milwaukee into finger-style central
Where Milwaukee sits in a valley of artistic prominence, with the cosmopolitan mountains of Chicago and Minneapolis on either side, there is one art form in which Milwaukee claims supremacy: solo acoustic guitar playing.
Tags: Stropes, finger-style, acoustic, folk, fingerstyle, Michael Hedges, Kottke, McKee

Music - June 17, 2005
If Johnson disappointed at The Pabst, King reigned supreme
With fingers traveling at lightening speed, musician/guitarist Eric Johnson shined like his guitar when it hit the spotlight at The Pabst Theater on Wednesday. But his material felt a bit outdated. Not so the work of the opener Kaki King.
Tags: Kaki King, Pabst, Eric Johnson, blues, fingerstyle