Jason Molina

Few get more lonesome on record than Will Johnson and Jason Molina. I mean, sure Centro-matic can shake the rafters, and South San Gabriel can expand and overwhelm, and Magnolia Electric Co. often sound as big as the Midwestern sky they...

In this article: South San Gabriel, Centro-Matic, and Magnolia Electric Co.

The LP debut from Jason Molina (Magnolia Electric Co.) and Will Johnson (Centro-Matic, South San Gabriel) plays out almost exactly as expected considering the ingredients: two men with the dark, dark blues, the tools of Americana at their...

In this article: Magnolia Electric Co, Mingles, South San Gabriel, Centro-Matic, and Texas

...over the past year. It is not entirely clear when Songs: Ohia became Magnolia Electric Co. In interviews, Jason Molina has claimed that he considered the tenure of Songs: Ohia over after "Didn't It Rain", which would make Magnolia Electric...

In this article: Songs: Ohia, Magnolia Electric Co., Didn't It Rain, EP, Ghost Tropic, Mike Mogis, Alasdair Roberts, Secretly Canadian, and Trials and Errors

...could a label as great as Secretly Canadian, who count such purveyors of artistic integrity as Antony and the Johnsons, Jens Lekman, and Jason Molina amongst its roster, sign some kind of crap like this? This must be some kind of a sick joke,...

In this article: Secretly Canadian, Los Angeles, Cocaine, Cholesterol, Tusk, Kiss, Jens Lekman, Sheena Easton, and Casablanca Records

...anything the band had ever done. And when tragedy struck in December 2007, and Evan Farrell passed away, Jason Molina and the rest of the band wanted to create Josephine as a tribute to their fallen friend. But though their personal loss is...

In this article: Magnolia Electric Co. and Songs: Ohia

Even if Jason Molina of Magnolia Electric Co. didn't write songs about loss and loneliness, his pained, hollowed-out voice would still convey those subjects with unsettling intensity. The sympathetic accompaniment of his expansive band-which...

In this article: Magnolia Electric Co.

Navigation - link to other main sections from here In preceding albums by this Ohio collective their frontman Jason Molina had presided over an ever more minimal sonic toolbox. After the death of the bassist Evan Farrell two years ago,...

In this article: Will Oldham, Uncle Tupelo, and Ohio

Said it before but it's worth repeating: Jason Molina is one of the great unsung heroes of authentic American music. Three years since his band Magnolia Electric Co's last record, this is a concept album billed as "an honest-to-God effort...

In this article: Magnolia Electric Co, Secretly Canadian, Neil Young, and Tonight's the Night

by Alexander Tudor [Edit this content] ▾ 2 comments 10:59 July 1st, 2009 Reluctant though he may be, Jason Molina has been hailed as one of the pivotal figures in Alt. Country, since the term was cut free from its associations with the No...

In this article: Magnolia Electric Co., Alt Country, What Comes After the Blues, Trials & Errors, Neil Young, Didn't It Rain, Hank Williams, Ghost Tropic, and Appropriation

Wherever Jason Molina Goes, Melancholy Melodies Are Sure to Follow Jason Molina has been traveling yet another lonesome highway with Magnolia Electric Co., heading from Tucson to a Thursday night gig in Austin. The band has just gotten...

In this article: Magnolia Electric Co., Sojourner, Songs: Ohia, Fading Trails, Chicago, DVD, and Stroke