Archive: 2013

Kid Rock has jumped the shark in a big way according to Schultz.

Paul Banks at the Varsity Theater, Minneapolis MN 11.25.12.

He is the man with the golden fingers, the zen master of soul sacrificing chords that ruminate through the very aura of the human spirit

 In response to overwhelming fan demand, Leonard Cohen’s acclaimed “Old Ideas World Tour” has just added a second North American leg.  After enchanting audiences worldwide, the legendary singer/songwriter/poet culminated the first series of North American dates with breathtaking engagements at New York’s Madison Square Garden and Barclays Center on December 18 & 20 – and […]

It never works this quick for most bands, but somehow brother Ryan and Taylor Lawhon made the record deal thing happen pronto.  In March 2012, the Lawhons uploaded three original songs to a Bandcamp page under their initial moniker KO KO, the name of a boat they considered buying in the Newport Harbor. They had tracked the music on a laptop in the bedroom of their home, utilizing everything from guitars and bass to keyboards, synths, and organ.  Growing up on their mother’s eclectic taste in new age music, it’s no surprise that the brothers captured their sound as more organic than outrageous.

The second day of Jam Cruise is a day spent at sea steaming towards our first port. The schedule of music and activities starts at noon, just a few hours after the last notes had been played the previous night, and runs until early the next morning – and that’s just the music that’s been […]

In recent years, as “Best Of” lists have proliferated and inched ever earlier into the fall,  fourth quarter album output has borne little fruit. This year in particular, it felt like the music industry just shut down in Novemener and went fishing until January. The early winter months of November and December were a plain […]

When it was revealed that Widespread Panic would be one of the headlining acts at the 10th installment of the Wakarusa Music Festival this spring, it seemed like only a matter of time before the Southern jam-titans would announce their return to the road after taking the majority of 2012 off. Yesterday Spreadheads rejoiced as […]

Brian Bavosa looks at what he thinks was the best year of Phish in over a decade.

Ava Luna, a soulful indie big band from Brooklyn, popped up on our radar this past year when they landed the cover of the print edition of Deli Magazine here in New York. After what sounds like a bit of a comedy of errors, they finally have their official music video for the haunting Ice […]