Tag: Alabama Shakes

  • In the middle of making her new album, Brittany Howard decided to record the air conditioner.

  • First Listen: Alabama Shakes, ‘Sound & Color’ First Listen National Public Radio 2015-04-12 Ann Powers, NPR Music Critic The Alabama Shakes’ new album, Sound & Color, comes out April 21. Brantley Gutierrez/Courtesy of the artist In the six years I’ve lived in the region, I’ve developed a mantra: Southern freaks are the best freaks. For…

  • Do you identify as Black, mixed — how do you see yourself? I’m both. Everything and nothing. Clay Cane, “Brittany Howard of the Alabama Shakes: “I Don’t Think About Color”,” Black Entertainment Television, (June 25, 2013). http://www.bet.com/news/music/2013/06/25/brittany-howard-of-the-alabama-shakes-i-don-t-think-about-color.html.

  • If you haven’t heard of Brittany Howard of the Alabama Shakes, the 24-year-old is making jaws drop in the music industry. Armed with ferocious vocals, passionate lyrics and a dynamic presence — on and off stage — Howard as the front woman of the Alabama Shakes is bringing rock and blues back from the grave…

  • Alabama Shakes’s Soul-Stirring, Shape-Shifting New Sound The New York Times Magazine 2015-03-18 Joe Rhodes With its highly anticipated second album, this band of small-town misfits finally has a ticket out — not that they would ever leave. In the upstairs dressing room at the Georgia Theater in Athens, Ga., in January, Alabama Shakes was getting…