Archive: 2014

As achild, lead singer Mozes and The Firstborn Melle Dielesen spent countless hours in front of the television watching and rewinding the animated movie, Prince of Egypt. The rather macabre plot, along with the rest of the movie made a deep impression on the young Melle. And several years later, he found himself living in London […]

[rating=9.00] It is a tribute to Eric’s Clapton’s fundamental integrity as a musician that, no matter how deeply he’s pursued mainstream acceptance, he’s never wholly forsaken his roots in the blues. Accordingly, what might seem just another careerist move, his appearance on “MTV’s Unplugged television program in 1992, turns into a reinvention of his persona […]

This penultimate episode ties up loose ends and sets up the sure-to-be-excellent finale.

In the mid-sixties, a New York kid named Leslie West was making his first dent on the music scene as the guitar player and singer of the Vagrants, a Long Island-based garage rock band that had a couple of minor hits on the East coast. By the end of the sixties he was making much […]

Before Marynard James Keenan celebrates his 50th birthday with the “Cinquanta” show, he’ll hit the road with Tool for a brief U.S. outing. The tour includes stops in Spokane, Portland, Eugene, Reno and San Francisco. The West Coast road trip marks Tool’s first U.S. outing since 2012. You can catch Keenan performing with his other bands – Puscifer and A Perfect […]

It’s the new Canterbury scene, and it sounds pretty damn good.

For those looking to have a good time and let loose on a Friday night, there are few better alternatives than a Robert Earl Keen concert. For over 30 years now, Keen, or REK, as he tends to be referred to by those in the know, has been offering forth a wildly combustible live show […]

To say that Railroad Earth blew through town would be an apt description for their show in Lincoln on January 15th, as there was a wind advisory over much of Nebraska, with winds gusting to well over 50 MPH. Although there weren’t a lot of people out on the downtown streets this evening, a good […]

2013 was a landmark year for The National, as  the five-piece premiered their documentary film Mistaken For Strangers at the opening film at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival and was met with rave reviews. The band capped off the year with their first GRAMMY nomination for Best Alternative Album in early December. With 2014 underway […]

Manchester Orchestra will release Cope on April 1, 2014 through their recent partnership with Loma Vista Recordings and their very own Favorite Gentlemen Recordings. The new full-length album from the Atlanta-based band was self-produced alongside their long-time collaborating partner Dan Hannon, and mixed by John Agnello at Fluxivity Studios in Brooklyn. They recorded the entire […]