Phish – Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, CA 10/27/14 (Night One Highlights/Lowlights)
Last night, Phish played their seventh ever show at San Francisco’s Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. Stepping to the stage for show seven in the midst of a twelve-show fall tour, the band rolled into the Bay Area lacking that one heavy hitting highlight evening that fans have been looking forward too for months. Although last […]
Ryan Adams – Moody Theater, Austin, TX 10/23/14 (SHOW REVIEW)
Something about Ryan Adams and his music brings out the stranger side in people. When he plays live this goes to the extreme. It’s difficult to pin down exactly why, but the best assumption is that acts like Conor Oberst, Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, and Ryan Adams (to name a few) have all written songs […]
Sleater-Kinney Reunion – Ranking The Discography (First to Worst)
There is a reason why the news about Corin Tucker, Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss resurrecting Sleater-Kinney for a new album and tour in 2015 sent so many music fans to run up and sing from the digital mountaintops this past week. Whether it was by design or not, the scoop came the week the […]
José González Announces New Record -‘Vestiges & Claws’
Mute has announced the release of José González ‘s new record, Vestiges & Claws. The album, his first in seven years, is out on February 17 and was produced by González in his home as well as Svenska Grammofonstudion, both in Gothenburg, Sweden. It consists of years’ worth of musical sketches that in other hands […]
Daniel Lanois – Flesh and Machine (ALBUM REVIEW)
[rating=7.00] Despite having made eight albums of his own, Daniel Lanois still gets his bulk of praise for the records he produced for others, specifically those that went on to achieve superstar status: U2’s The Joshua Tree, Peter Gabriel’s So, and Bob Dylan’s Time Out Of Mind. Whether the legacies of those artists, specifically U2, […]
Toby Lightman Gets Accomplished on ‘Every Kind of People’ (INTERVIEW)
There are plenty of bright lights popping up in the music world these days. Everyone from hard rockers to singer-songwriters are shining through the rubble and emerging to breathe some fresh new air into their genres. Toby Lightman is one of those lovely breath mints. With the release of her fourth, and most accomplished, body […]
Pearl Jam – Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, MN 10/19/14 (PHOTOS)
Photos of Pearl Jam at the Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul on 10/19/14. Photos by Billy Briggs.
Jack Bruce 1943-2014 – Five Classic Basslines
As the music world mourns the loss of rock and roll pioneer Jack Bruce, we decided to take a look back through the master’s long and storied history to examine the legacy he left behind. To call him monumental would be only to scratch the surface of his influence and impact on the state of […]
ALBUM STREAM – Swearing at Motorists – ‘While Laughing, The Joker Tells the Truth’
After an eight-year sabbatical of sorts, former Secretly Canadian mainstay Swearing At Motorists has returned to the musical fray with a new album and live dates. The band has resurfaced in Hamburg, Germany, with a new album titled While Laughing, The Joker Tells The Truth (streaming below), to be released on October 21, 2014 on […]
FREEMAN – The Parish, Austin, Texas 10/25/14 (SHOW REVIEW)
You can take Gene Ween out of Ween, but you can’t take the Ween out of Aaron Freeman. This fact was established within the first moments of Aaron Freeman taking the stage at the Parish on Saturday night. With his new band, aptly and perhaps metaphorically named FREEMAN, the former Ween frontman appeared healthy, happy […]