Consider the Alabama Shakes the torchbearers for the new retro rock. The sound's first wave, sparked in the early 2000s by bands like The Strokes and The White Stripes (plus a ­thousand other groups… ...
The Alabama Shakes — from the name to the members to the music they make — are a band deeply rooted in the American South, but their 2012 breakthrough debut Boys and Girls vaulted them out of Athens, ...
Alabama Shakes epitomize what a rock band should be in this era, mostly for what they lack. Confidence oozes out of every note that pours from singer Brittany Howard’s mouth, but it doesn’t translate ...