Archive: 2014

Whenever you hear about the end of a band, no matter how great they are, it’s more than just common to hear about angry disputes and oceans of bad blood between group members. In fact, the longer a band has been together, it seems that the chances for bitterness and anger grows proportionately. Rare is […]

[rating=8.00] For the first time since 2011, TV on the Radio are back with a new album Seeds, albeit under vastly different circumstances. The three year timespan has brought numerous changes to the band: the unfortunate passing of bassist Gerard Smith, the parting of ways with longtime label Interscope, and the members’ geographic relocation from […]

The dates for U2’s upcoming iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Tour 2015 have been announced today by Live Nation. The iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Tour, which begins in 2015, will see U2 play indoor arenas for the first time in a decade and will visit 19 cities worldwide during its first year with pairs of shows in each […]

How do you tell a story or express an emotion without using words? That’s the challenge that composers of instrumental music face. I talked to steel pan jazz artist and composer Jonathan Scales about Lurkin’, which appears on the 2013 album “Jonathan Scales Fourchestra.” Of this album, Modern Drummer says, “Inventive steel pan player Jonathan […]

Red House Records has announced a new solo release, Ain’t In No Hurry, by Jorma Kaukonen, set for release on February 17, 2015.  The album is a collection of classic American songs, blues, rockers and Jorma originals including a lost Woody Guthrie lyric set to music by Jorma and Larry Campbell. All tracks frame his life, development as an artist and […]

Mayer Hawthorne and producer Jake One (Drake, Snoop Dogg, Fun.) are teaming up to release their self-titled debut album Tuxedo (Stones Throw Records) on March 3, 2015. The duo unveiled the cover art + track listing y and recently gave fans a sneak peek of the upcoming funk record with the video for “Do It” (below). Tuxedo is Mayer Hawthorne (Aquarius) and Jake […]

At the end of December 2013, Christmas looming and the New Year just around the corner, Phosphorescent played a four-night stand at the Music Hall Of Williamsburg in Brooklyn; and for four-nights running, blew the roof off the place.  Matthew Houck, fronting his seven-piece band, plus an auxiliary string trio deployed throughout the set, played […]

Bobby Keys, longtime saxophonist for The Rolling Stones, has died.The legendary musician had been battling cirrhosis and passed away at his home in Franklin, TN early Tuesday morning.  He was 70 years old. A Texas native who’d lived in Middle Tennessee since the early ’90s, in addition to his 40-plus-year tenure with The Rolling Stones, […]

Warren Haynes has had a busy year to say the least. The 54-year-old guitarist has spent much of 2014 celebrating the twentieth anniversary of his band Gov’t Mule with a tour that has crisscrossed the U.S. and hit the UK, Europe, Australia and Japan. In between touring with Mule, Haynes also managed to close the […]

Diamond Rugs are set to release their rowdy new record, Cosmetics (Sycamore Records/Thirty Tigers/RED), on February 24, 2015. John McCauley (Deer Tick), Robbie Crowell (Deer Tick), Ian Saint Pé (ex-Black Lips singer), Steve Berlin (Los Lobos), Hardy Morris (Dead Confederate) and Bryan Dufresne (Six Finger Satellite) have come together once again to tap into the […]