Alejandro Escovedo

"When you find a team of people who can put together songs and music and production, it's a rare kind of thing," says Escovedo, who plays Minglewood Hall's 1884 Lounge on Tuesday, along with New York singer-songwriter Jesse Malin. "Having ...  

JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound at #HotelVegan (more by Amanda Hatfield) Call Maxwell's the unofficial New Jersey headquarters for the Big Apple BBQ. The Hoboken venue will host three of the six artists scheduled to bless the Manhattan festival...  

Alejandro Escovedo will perform at the White Rabbit Cabaret this Saturday. by Katherine Coplen Singer, songwriter, band leader, guitar player - Alejandro Escovedo's career reads like a How To book on succeeding in the music industry. From the beginning of his musical career with his punk band The Nuns, to his tex-mex rock band Rank and File, to his now-fifteen full-length album run, Escovedo has ...  

With the number of shows happening in the city, we have to make hard decisions about what exactly to cover on Soundboard, and sometimes good bands don't make the cut. So while I have your attention, let me recommend that you check out Icky Blossoms tonight at Schubas opening for Fool's Gold.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]  

Alejandro Escovedo Off Broadway May 15, 2012 Storytelling is a craft that is formulated through years of experience and must be as finely tuned as a guitar. Spirited rock and roll is the backdro...  

From the initial English edition through the Drew Carey-hosted American version of impromptu games and scenarios, home audiences laughed along with a rotating cast of regulars that included Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie, Greg Proops, Brad Sherwood ...  

The Isthmus Guest List is back with another round of free tickets to amazing concerts, shows and more fun events around Madison. This week's contests include tickets to: Joe Pug at the Frequency; Pink Lightning, Alejandro Escovedo, Kurt Vile & The ...  

Every Alejandro Escovedo show should be required viewing, but this one promises something extra special for fans of St. Louis music. The rock-roots legend's show will be supported by Jimmy Griffin, frontman of the Incurables and guitarist for El Monstero. A formidable talent on his own, Griffin i...  

"That’s always been our template because punk rock for us has been about having a vast record collection and championing the great stuff. "I see [Big Station] as a journey, a place where we all go or come from, kind of a junction in some sort of voyage.  

Escovedo began performing in the first-wave punk rock group The Nuns, with Delphine Neid, Jennifer Miro, and Jeff Olener, in San Francisco, California. After Escovedo's departure, The Nuns recorded an album on Posh Boy Records, but had little commercial success.  

Anime had its Big O; well-traveled singer/songwriters look to Alejandro Escovedo and Damien Jurado. That, and more tenuously tangential links in our roundup for the 16th, also including Hope For Agoldensummer, The Royalty, and We Are Serenades. How strange is it that Alejandro Escovedo was once in a side-project rock band called Buick MacKane and has [...]  

Escovedo: Definitely. That was the purpose ... I did a little bit of writing with Sheila E., my niece, and I get a real sense of rhythm from her, of course, ’cause she’s incredible. The songs that we wrote didn’t make it to the record ...  

Like many Americans (and most professional musicians), all-universe rocker Alejandro Escovedo was woefully under-insured when complications from Hepatitis C resulted in an extended, near-death ordeal that ran from 2003-2005.  

Alejandro Escovedo at Clearwater 2009 (more by Chris La Putt) Alejandro Escovedo, who just guested with Bruce Springsteen at SXSW along with Arcade Fire and others for a performance of "This Land Is Your Land," is sticking around in his...  

7 p.m., Alpine Valley Music Theatre, W2699 County Road D, Elkhorn. Tickets are $37.50 and $72 through ticketmaster.com. All ages. BEST COAST w/ Those Darlins: Wednesday, July 25, 8:30 p.m., Majestic Theatre, 115 King St. Tickets are $17 in advance through ...