Jan 5th, 2009 · On New Year's Eve in New Orleans, the Evan Christopher/Tom McDermott Danza Quartet held sway with a set of music that was anything but picayune. With a sousaphone-toting bassist and a tambourine-banging drummer, the quartet made the show an affair to remember.
May 28th, 2008 · You won't hear any cymbal crashes, rumbling drum fills or guitar riffs on Fields of Industry's latest CD, Two Dogs, A Television. Though a number of tracks take cues from rock (the group often sounds like The Velvet Underground), it's an almost heartbreakingly spare album, steeped as much in folk and country as in shoegaze and psychedelia. Even on the more charged songs like "I'm Not Afraid of a Fight" and "Toybox," the only percussion heard is a gently rapped tambourine.
Apr 18th, 2008 · Emery Byrds's "A Great Silence" opens with the purposeful ringing of an acoustic guitar and a tambourine before singer Matt Carastro confronts a growing disconnect between onetime friends. Once united by raucous Saturday nights, they come to realize over time that they're faking it.
Aug 21st, 2006 · Page France's nuanced, clever folk-pop is carefully constructed using acoustic guitar, organs, glockenspiel, tambourine and the pretty backing vocals of keyboardist Whitney McGraw. Meanwhile, Michael Nau's striking voice lends the band's music an air of sincerity and innocence.
Nov 7th, 2004 · Singer Tift Merritt's latest CD has a hefty dose of alt-country sound, but she's branching out to blues, rock, pop -- and even some Memphis soul. The North Carolina-based singer talks with Sheilah Kast about Tambourine.