Subject: Dave Alvin

• SXSW Partial Band List Announced. NEXT.

  And, as usual, no one from Kansas City is on it. Yet. (You will be glad to know, however, that Dananananaykroyd, from Glasgow, is.) A coworker was wondering aloud today whether the festival would be as big this year because of the economy. Many of the unsigned acts that flood the city -- playing free shows any place that will have them, paying all their own expenses, sleeping in the van and so forth -- probably won't be able to go this year. And in past years, that's precisely how Kansas City

  January 8, 2009

• The Hacienda Brothers

  July 10, 2008

• The Blasters

  June 29, 2006

• Americana Pie

  Grab a slice of 2004's best roots music while it's still hot.

  December 30, 2004

• The New Rolling Stone Album Guide

  Edited by Nathan Brackett with Christian Hoard (Fireside)

  November 11, 2004

• 100 Albums and Running

  A Change for the better tops the list of 2002's best records.

  December 26, 2002

• The Blasters

  Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings (Rhino)

  June 20, 2002

• Red Meat

  Alameda County Line (Ranchero)

  March 22, 2001

• Dave Alvin

  August 20, 2009

• Concert Review: Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women

  BY ROBERT FOLSOM I'm a girl watcher, I'm a girl watcher/Here comes one now. Or five. And they weren't girls. They were Dave Alvin's Guilty Women taking the stage to the tune of the O'Kaysions' "Girl Watcher" Friday night at the Folly Theater, just ahead of their bandleader. Scott SpychalskiClick for more pics of Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women. Alvin formed his all-female backing band in 2008 after the death of his close friend, West Coast singer-songwriter Chris Gaffney, who had been a memb

  August 24, 2009