Mobile and Baldwin County News
The Independent Music Collective — the University of South Alabama student organization that has become one of Mobile’s quiet engines for live original music — hosted its first annual Thanksgiving…
Fishbone, the Los Angeles band that helped lay the groundwork for 1990s ska-punk, returned to Mobile for a Fat Tuesday 2013 performance at the Alabama Music Box, with support from…
Joe Cain Day — the uniquely Mobile Sunday that sits between the Ionic and Comic Cowboys parades in the Mardi Gras calendar — gained two newer musical traditions by 2013:…
Two members of one of Mobile’s most beloved bands traded their full-band format for an intimate duo setting in early February 2013, as Pine Hill Haints frontman Jamie Barrier and…
Critically acclaimed singer-songwriter Richard Buckner brought his spare, literary songcraft to Mobile’s Satori Coffee House on Wednesday, December 5, 2012, for an intimate solo engagement presented with the Independent Music…
The Alabama Music Box closed out November 2012 with one of its strangest and loudest bills of the year on Friday, November 30, as the Gary Wrong Group headlined alongside…
The Alabama Music Box on Dauphin Street hosted one of its rowdier bills of the fall on Thursday, November 15, 2012, as Birmingham’s Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires…
Mobile’s jazz organization MOJO saluted one of the towering figures in American music — alto saxophonist Charlie “Yardbird” Parker — with a tribute evening at the Gulf City Lodge, 601…
International touring acts don’t often route through Mobile — which made Bomba Estéreo’s stop at the Alabama Music Box a genuinely rare booking. The Bogotá band, one of South America’s…
The Blind Mule has spent the holiday season doing double duty in downtown Mobile — plating Cajun dishes and signature salads while turning its space into a gallery of local…