There's a soulful, rustic twang to Dave Alvin's voice these days when he sings his rootsy new song "Harlan County Line." Fans of FX's series "Justified" are familiar with the song and might have seen ...

West Texas troubadour Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Southern California roots-rocker Dave Alvin were born worlds apart. Gilmore in Lubbock, where he co-founded the Flatlanders. He left music to join an ...

Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Dave Alvin will appear together tomorrow night at the Arts Campus at Willits with their band, the Guilty Ones. They are touring behind their second album that they have made ...

Singer-songwriter-bandleader Dave Alvin recently got a pardon from the Davis, Calif., municipal ban on his former band, The Blasters and its members. Seems the Blasters were banned from the college ...

The Third Mind, a supergroup of just-left-of-center rock stars including Dave Alvin (The Blasters), performs March 12 at WOW Hall, supporting last year’s full-length album, Right Now!, the group’s ...

Dave Alvin was barely into his 20s when he wrote “American Music,” the roots-rock anthem that serves as his watchword. With the Blasters, the Knitters, and on his own, Alvin surveys the expanse of ...

If you plan to spend some time in Southeast in the next few days, we have some ideas about how to pass the time. Jim Breur, who played a very believable pothead in "Half Baked," plays four shows on ...

When Dave Alvin was 12 or 13, he and his brother Phil would sneak off to The Ash Grove, an L.A. folk/blues club, where they'd watch Big Joe Turner, Lightning Hopkins and T-Bone Walker. Now Alvin is ...

Whenever Dave Alvin comes to town, I’m invariably reminded of my late friend and former Buffalo News colleague Jay Bonfatti. He was a serious fan of both Alvin’s solo work, and his efforts with the ...

You might have thought it was a Penn and Teller thing, the way Dave spoke and Phil stood still. It was even more of a magic act when Phil did step up to the mic and sing out in that holy shit voice of ...