2023 was a great year in music! Solid release after solid release made this year’s list one of the hardest to put together in TFN’s 17-year history. The simple fact is that TFN receives hundreds of albums every year for review so it is never an easy task. In regards to our annual best-of list … Read more
Jason Isbell And The 400 UnitWeathervanesSoutheastern Records/Thirty Tigers [2023] When Sam Jones’ documentary, Jason Isbell: Running With Our Eyes Closed, hit HBO early this Spring, music fans not only got an inside look into the making of the 2020 release from Jason Isbell and his band The 400 Unit, “Reunions,” but we also witnessed the … Read more
GRAMMY-Award winners Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit announced today the upcoming release of their eighth album, Weathervanes, out June 9 via Southeastern Records/Thirty Tigers. Written and produced by Isbell, Weathervanes features 13 brand new tracks. Weathervanes is a collection of grown-up songs: Songs about adult love, about change, about the danger of nostalgia and … Read more
Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit w/ Adia Victoria: Palace Theatre; Columbus, OH; Thursday, January 27, 2022 For live music fans, one of the biggest challenges of the on-going pandemic has been the shut-down of concerts, but Jason Isbell repeatedly told the two-thirds full crowd in Columbus’ Palace Theatre Thursday night that he and his band, … Read more
Metallica marks the 30th anniversary of its self-titled fifth album — a/k/a The Black Album — with two releases, both out September 10th on the band’s own Blackened Recordings. First up is the album itself being remastered and treated like royalty and the second release is a 50+ artists tribute album. To commemorate its 30th … Read more
Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit ReunionsSoutheastern Records [2020] In one of the songs on Jason Isbell’s seventh solo album since stepping away from the Drive-By Truckers, the singer sings again about his struggle to maintain his sobriety, “It gets easier, but it never gets easy.” He could just as easily be describing the work … Read more
Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit Jason Isbell And The 400 UnitLightning Rod Records [2009] For his sophomore solo record, Jason Isbell wants to emphasize that this is a band effort, hence the addition of The 400 Unit to his moniker. Unlike the four years it took Isbell to release his more independent effort, Sirens … Read more