Archive: 2013

Watch the first set of the Disco Biscuits’ recent NYE show in NYC including the countdown medley.

A look at a movie from theater’s golden era starring Clark Gable and William Powell.

Since splitting with his vaunted backing band The Rumour in 1980, Graham Parker’s been able to maintain his edge working as a solo artist and with various accompanying ensembles. He’s able to wield that edge here in the thirty-year reunion with his former comrades, most effectively as Three Chords Good comes to an emphatic conclusion.

kyline Drive is what happens when 60 Watt Kid guitarist Derrick Thomas downshifts from art-rock to Americana folk. Topanga Ranch Motel is the first offering from the Thomas lead group that drips cinematic, heartfelt, mid tempo, modern day folk numbers.

The Black Keys are teaming up with the Flaming Lips for a handful of dates in the U.S. in late April and early May. The Black Keys are headlining with The Flaming Lips listed as the special guest on all four gigs. The outing marks the first U.S. appearances booked for The Black Keys in […]

Lotus announces the second leg of the 2013 tour today in support of the forthcoming album, Build, out February 19, 2013 on SCI Fidelity Records.  The first leg of the tour finds Lotus in the Northeast, Midwest and South including two night runs in New York City (Manhattan’s Best Buy Theater and Brooklyn’s Knitting Factory), […]

David Browie celebrated his 66th birthday this morning with a surprise for everyone else: he broke a long musical silence with the new single "Where Are We Now?" from a forthcoming album, The Next Day, which is due in March. Recorded in New York with longtime collaborator Tony Visconti producing, the unexpected album is Bowie’s […]

If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. The current reality is that all new  album releases are going to leak, whether the artists and  labels like it or not. In the most guarded cases, a new album hits the web only  a couple of days before its scheduled release date. In worst case scenarios, an unreleased […]

A sizzling 45 minutes of especially groovy music from the Wayne Shorter Quartet.

Check out a documentary about the criminally underrated Incredible String Band.