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• 07.23.10: Bruce Springsteen joins Alejandro Escovedo at Stone Pony

  Bruce Springsteen played three songs with Alejandro Esvocedo at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park on Friday night. They performed “Always A Friend,” “Faith” and the Rolling Stones’  “Beast of Burden.” Springsteen had performed “Always a Friend” once before with Escovdeo, at an E Street Band show in Houston in 2008. “Faith” is from Escovedo’s [...]

• 07.21.10: Escovedo’s rockin’ ‘Songs’ defy time

  Alejandro Escovedo’s got a rock ’n’ roll heart. You can almost see it thumping out a dirty rhythm under his buttoned-up black vaquero vest. And pumping blood down to his red-cowboy-booted toes and through his 59-year-old fingers clutching a throbbing Les Paul. On Monday night, the ex-punk, ex-alt-country singer tore through 90 minutes of rootsy [...]

• 07.15.10: BLURT online’s 8-star review: “Street Songs of Love”

  As visceral and uncompromising as his early solo outings were cerebral and widescreen, Street Songs of Love makes a strong case for Alejandro Escovedo being one of our pre-eminent rock ‘n’ roll artists now operating well outside the parameters of the so-called Americana realm. That the man voted No Depression magazine’s “Artist of the Decade” [...]

• 07.15.10: Texas Platters – “Street Songs of Love”

  At KGSR’s 2008 anniversary concert, when asked how his heralded Real Animal had performed at market, Alejandro Escovedo scowled. “The same,” he said. We were both disappointed. Always the bridesmaid. Or is that Animal gateway “Always a Friend” never the bride? Either way, now nine solo studio LPs into his celebrated career, commercial accounting never [...]

• 07.15.10: Alejandro Escovedo a must-see artist

  In the early 1990s, I lived for a brief while in Austin, Texas. South by Southwest was still a party then, not a juggernaut. Austin City Limits was a TV show, not an industry. And my fellow Waterloo Records employee Alejandro Escovedo was just — at the urging of guitarist-producer Stephen Bruton — beginning his [...]

• 07.09.10: AND DAMN, HE CAN ROCK – Alejandro Escovedo

  “If the music is going well I can get through anything,” says the Austin auteur. With a fiery new album in stores, the music’s going quite well, thank you. Just what the hell is it going to take? That’s the longtime pressing question nearly two decades into the solo career of Alejandro Escovedo, at least [...]

• 07.04.10: Alejandro Escovedo, The Borderline, London, June 22nd 2010

  One significant gap in my Americana-rock-alt-blah-blah gig-going has been Alejandro Escovedo. I’m convinced his agent waits until I’m on holiday or elsewhere before booking Al into a London venue. Paranoia aside, I like Alejandro’s music and possibly even more so in recent years – to my ears, there’s a solid and unique strain of punk-acoustic-Mex-country-rock [...]

• 07.03.10: CD review: Alejandro Escovedo ‘Street Songs of Love’ – austin360.com

  Alejandro Escovedo ‘Street Songs of Love’ (Fantasty/Concord) Grade: A It’s ironic that the kickoff track to Alejandro Escovedo’s new album, “Street Songs of Love,” is entitled “Anchor,” because it lifts off with the same buoyant, guitar-fueled energy that fueled the best tracks on this album’s predecessor, 2008’s “Real Animal.” Indeed, this album is a nearly [...]

• 07.03.10: Live WXRT broadcast of “Taste of Chicago” from Petrillo Music Shell on Sunday, July 4th!

  Join Alejandro Escovedo and The Sensitive Boys at 1:00 pm CT as they create some fireworks of their own!  For more information and to tune in live, click on this link: http://wxrt.radio.com/xrt-free-4th-of-july-concert/

• 07.01.10: ‘Street Songs of Rock’ might be the more appropriate title for Alejandro’s new excellent LP!

  Don’t let the title fool you, as Alejandro Escovedo’s new long player Street Songs Of Love picks up the fiery rock right where his excellent last record Real Animal [2008] stopped. The album finds Escovedo collaborating again with producer Tony Visconti (U2, Bowie, Morrissey) and chief songwriting partner Chuck Prophet, which both have a great [...]

• 07.01.10: Alejandro Escovedo & guests played City Winery – pics, videos and a new MP3

  Alejandro Escovedo played two nights at City Winery with Bobby Bare Jr. opening. Special guests on the first night (6/29) included Mott the Hoople’s Ian Hunter, who joined Alejandro for a verse-trading encore of Mott’s “I Wish I Was Your Mother.” The second night (6/30) Alejandro’s producer Tony Visconti sat in with the band for [...]

• 06.30.10: CD Review: Alejandro Escovedo, “Street Songs of Love”

  I’ll tell you one thing right from the jump; Alejandro Escovedo’s new album, Street Songs of Love (Fantasy/Concord Music Group), may be my favorite album of the year from a production standpoint. Of course one might expect as much when Tony Visconti is in the producer’s chair. Visconti was responsible for albums from a few [...]

• 06.30.10: Music Pick: Keeping the Faith

  Alejandro Escovedo has spent three decades on pop music’s cutting edge, helping to push along American punk with the Nuns and doing the same for roots rock with Rank and File. But by now he’s been a solo artist for far longer, and his new album, “Street Songs of Love,” sits toward the rootsier end [...]

• 06.29.10: Alejandro Escovedo’s ‘Street Songs of Love’

  Recorded with Escovedo’s four-piece road band, the album is heavy on big guitars and big choruses. His lyrics strive for grand, universal statements about the most universal, if also most elusive, emotion. They teeter between flashes of the poetic and the generic, sometimes within the same song. These songs don’t call for insight; they demand [...]

• 06.29.10: Album review: Alejandro Escovedo, “Street Songs of Love”

  Like any number of underground rock heroes, Alejandro Escovedo has never achieved popular acclaim commensurate with his gifts or accomplishments. But he has long enjoyed the adulation of his peers, as demonstrated by “Por Vida,” a 2004 tribute CD involving the likes of John Cale, Ian Hunter and Lucinda Williams. Two admirers join Escovedo on [...]

• 06.29.10: Alejandro and The Sensitive Boys will be on SIRIUS XM radio “Outlaw Country” Wednesday, June 30

  Alejandro and The Sensitive Boys will be on SIRIUS XM radio “Outlaw Country” on Wednesday, June 30 for a performance and interview with Mojo Nixon at 7:00 pm ET.  The broadcast will air again on Friday, July 2 at 6:00 pm ET. http://www.sirius.com/outlawcountry You can also listen to SIRIUS XM radio free for the next [...]

• 06.28.10: Liner Notes: Alejandro Escovedo, ‘Street Songs of Love’

  Alejandro Escovedo’s success flies in the face of the music industry’s current trend of pushing young artists using short-term promotion and of-the-second gimmicks. Not only is the Austin-based roots rocker just hitting his stride as an artist at age 59, but he’s been working in the music industry for about three decades, having been a [...]

• 06.28.10: Alejandro Escovedo Talks About His New Album, ‘Street Songs of Love’

  The tenth solo album by Alejandro Escovedo, Street Songs of Love, will be released on Tuesday, June 29. The same night he’ll stride on stage at the first of three shows this week at New York City’s City Winery and no doubt blow the roof off the place at the start of his summer tour, [...]

• 06.27.10: WFUV to broadcast “Street Songs of Love” record release show live from City Winery in NYC on Tuesday, June 29.

  Tune in, stream the concert and join us for this very special event. For more info, check WFUV’s website: http://wfuv.com/

• 06.26.10: Alejandro Escovedo On His New Album, ‘Street Songs of Love’

  Alejandro Escovedo has had one of the more varied careers in music. In the late-’70s, Escovedo was a member of the San Francisco punk band the Nuns, followed by stints in Rank and File and the True Believers, several excellent, under-the-radar solo records, a near-fatal battle with Hepatitis C, and, finally, his breakthrough albums of [...]

• 06.25.10: Salvation in the Streets

  The good stuff is out there.  You’ve gotta dig past the Rolling Stone covers donning Lady Gaga and the headlines about Miley Cyrus, claiming she’s ‘all grown up now’, while donning a costume that makes her look like the proprietor of a S&M aviary.    The good stuff is, likely, going unplayed on the radio, [...]

• 06.25.10: Entertainment Weekly Reviews “Street Songs of Love”

  RATED A- Previously dubbed ”Austin’s answer to Bruce Springsteen” in these pages, Alejandro Escovedo here gets an assist from the Boss himself as the great man drops in on one track. That’s a fitting imprimatur, since Street Songs of Love, produced by Tony Visconti (T. Rex, David Bowie), feels every bit as classic and immediate [...]

• 06.25.10: No Country For Young Men – Alejandro Escovedo at The Borderline

  Alejandro Escovedo is introducing one of his new songs, ‘Down In The Bowery’, explaining it’s written for his teenage son Paris – “an angry young man, graffiti artist and punk rocker” and recounting the occasion he asked he him what he thought of his music. Paris said “it’s old man’s music”. Alejandro persisted “you mean [...]

• 06.24.10: A soulful roots-rocker survivor shares insights from a new CD at City Winery.

  “I’m a hungry man,” Alejandro Escovedo proclaims on Street Songs of Love, a new album out Tuesday 29 on Fantasy. It’s both declaration and behest—not just to a lover but also to life’s unknowns, sweetnesses and torments alike. He’s seen plenty of the latter recently: Now 59, Escovedo is only a couple of years out [...]

• 06.11.10: Dueling ND Artists of the Decade in Richmond

  A three-hour drive up the road afforded the opportunity to catch both Alejandro Escovedo (the No Depression print magazine’s artist of the decade for the 1990s) and Buddy Miller (our artist of the decade for the 2000s, in our final print issue) on the same night, at different venues, in Richmond, Virginia. So I took [...]