TAS Review: Ten Newport Folk Festival Highlights

If you didn't make it to this past weekend's sold-out and sun-drenched Newport Folk Festival, you might have caught it broadcast live via The Alternate Side's sister station WFUV and NPR Music. TAS asked WFUV's acting assistant PD, weekend host and producer Sarah Wardrop if she'd keep track of her own top ten Newport Folk Festival highlights, which runs the gamut from the intoxicating Gogol Bordello to knockout newcomers David Wax Museum.

TAS Live Review: Justin Townes Earle At Webster Hall, December 18

Reveling in his rapscallion past (and present), Justin Townes Earle regaled the crowd at his Webster Hall show in New York last Saturday with tales - and songs - that had a definite self-destructive streak. The Alternate Side's Eleanor Kagan was there and regards Earle's hedonistic excesses as a tricky muse, but one which offers up a wealth of lyrical insight.

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