BACKSTAGE WITH WELLES: ‘ANY KID CAN MAKE ROCK & ROLL’
Jesse Wells is the coolest paradox. The music of Welles is an intense storm of sound and emotion that steals all your attention, and…
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WELLES FIRES UP MERCURY LOUNGE WITH KATE DAVIS
“Good deal, good deal.” “Cool beans – cool, cool beans.” Quiet affirmations like these followed the pure-rock explosions set off by Welles at Mercury…
THE 3 MOST IMPORTANT ALBUMS OF 2018: P&W EDITORS’ PICKS
For once, picking favorites was pretty easy. When the editors at P&W reflected on what we felt were the most important albums released in…
WHAT FANS OF WELLES SHOULD KNOW: ‘YOU DON’T HAVE TO WORRY’
“It wasn’t a rap at first,” he joked. “When I wrote it, it was about twenty clicks slower, so all those words were just…
WELLES’ DEBUT ALBUM ‘RED TREES AND WHITE TRASHES’ IS A ROCK LOVER’S DREAM
“Dust me off like a jar of fire, declare me as your friend. It’s been done before, and we’re doing it now, and I’m…
RIVAL SONS AND WELLES FILL WHITE EAGLE HALL WITH INTOXICATING ROCK
The wait between scanning your tickets and screaming can seem endless before a good rock show, but sometimes, the reward is even better than…
WELLES CUT TO THE CHASE OFFSTAGE: ‘WE JUST MAKE ROCK & ROLL MUSIC’
“We’re just four dudes. I don’t know,” Welles said with a conclusive laugh, as if that was all the detail we needed. It was…
BONNAROO THURSDAY: JULY TALK, TWIDDLE, MONDO COZMO AND MORE
Thursdays at Bonnaroo are like the first day of school every year. You get your wits about you and see what is new and…
GOVERNORS BALL SATURDAY: WU-TANG CLAN, BANKS, LOCAL NATIVES & MORE
Even though we’d been praying hard to the rain gods, the slightly-cloudy weather that came on day two of Governors Ball was an unexpected relief…