Bonnie 'Prince' Billy News

Singer, songwriter and troubadour Bonnie "Prince" Billy is no stranger to film. The artist, whose real name is Will Oldham, got his start as a performer acting in John Sayles' Matewan .

Nothing says "24 Hour Charity Marathon!" quite like a 6 a.m. performance from Bonnie 'Prince' Billy.

Will Oldham has made a live record with the band he initially used for a week-long guerilla tour of Louisville in 2007, and then a well-received standard tour earlier this year.

Sometimes, musicians recording material substantially different than their norm tend to change the spelling of their names.

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy , or Will Oldham, to friends and family, should conduct seminars on aging gracefully.

If you're into introspective folk music written by mountain men with thick bears, it may have been a rough year for you.

A series of oblique angles on the past musical decade, beginning with how an entire generation of hipsters wore their musical preferences on their faces B is for ... Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Beard magazine and Bon Iver Standing on a subway platform waiting for the L train, I saw a group of young men with that slightly scruffy, indeterminately hip ...

Between them, Will Johnson and Jason Molina have spent the last 15 years filling in the empty spaces on the continuum stretching between Neil Young and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, maintaining a prolific pace that both insures a sprawling catalog and indicates a general hesitance to spend too much time dwelling on any one project.

I went to the Comedy Carnival in Dublin. It's a fantastic experience and really well programmed, with lots of interesting acts.

Columbus musician Brian Harnetty 's collaboration with Bonnie "Prince" Billy , Silent City , saw its European release last month, and it's getting some good press over there.

London-based Noah and the Whale has been dishing out their wistfully gentle indie/anti/nu/pop-folk for a mere three years.

This past August, singer/songwriter Will Oldham stopped by the Los Angeles recording studio where Johnny Cash and producer Rick Rubin were finishing work on the third album in Cash's American series of albums.

Will Oldham, a.k.a. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. Some of the most powerful, most musical voices we hear are the ones that aren't technically perfect.A This is even true in opera, where the great Maria Callas remains an iconic figure even though her most ardent fans will acknowledge there were some technical flaws in that dramatic, emotive instrument of ...

Verizon Wireless Amphitheater closed out its 2009 season by hosting the 24th annual Farm Aid concert, the first time the event has been held in St.

Streaming Woxy.com earlier today, I heard the song "The Walls Are Coming Down" from the London-based five-piece Fanfarlo .

Staffordshire, England, native Scout Niblett 's powerful pipes command attention with the same tomboyish tenacity and wide-eyed candor that made Harper Lee's character so memorable.

Three Columbus bands are playing album-release shows on Friday night, and they're all worth mentioning/attending. At the Rumba Cafe, Brian Harnetty will be releasing Silent City , his second album for Chicago's Atavistic Records.

North Carolina's Bowerbirds take the prevailing indie-rock A sthetic a ' ornate, textured arrangements, clean vocal harmonies a ' and apply them to Southern gothic, Appalachian bluegrass, and folk.

At this late stage in the Tortoise game, the Chicago-based virtuosic instrumental unit faces its most stringent uphill battle against themselves and their own legacy.

I was uniquely primed for Bonnie 'Prince' Billy , aka Will Oldham , who performed at Minglewood Hall on Tuesday night.