Archive: 2017

 Neil Young + Promise Of The Real will release their new studio album The Visitor [Reprise Records] on Friday, December 1, 2017 in stores and via all digital music retailers. The vinyl edition will follow on January 5, 2018. The digital pre-order grants an instant grat download of the new track “Already Great.” When Neil Young entered Shangri La Studio with the […]

There’s no understating how down to earth is Todd Park Mohr. As evinced in his conversation with Doug Collette, THE ‘Big Head’ of Big Head Todd and the Monsters is anything but an egotist. In fact, the casual air he radiates belies the industrious perseverance that’s not only brought him and his band to their […]

Austin’s Golden Dawn Arkestra are the type of heady musical collective that could only exist in a town filled with musicians. Fronted by local scene veteran Topaz McGarrigle aka Zapot Mgwai, this group consists ten or more musicians and dancers. This may explain why the band doesn’t tour outside of Austin much, as their live […]

Four years is a long time to wait for a band to release a new album. Rhode Island rockers Deer Tick understand this, which is why they gifted their fans with not one but two full-length albums after a four-year gap. The new albums, aptly titled Deer Tick Vol. 1 and Deer Tick Vol. 2, […]

[rating=9.00] Jim Byrnes soaked in the blues in St. Louis as an adolescent but has lived in Vancouver ever since he returned as a Vietnam vet. With thirteen years or so of a partnership with master guitarist and producer Steve Dawson, Long Hot Summer Days is their seventh album together. While Byrnes may be a […]

One of the year’s most delightful surprises is now available to own.

The South by Southwest® Music Festival (SXSW®) has announced another round of artists invited to perform at the 2018 event. Each year the SXSW Music Festival hosts a select mix of new, up-and-coming, international, and legendary artists from multiple genres. The festival is the destination for all who share a passion for creativity and new […]

Evanescence visited Philadelphia’s Tower Theatre on 11/2 in support of their new album Synthesis (out 11/10) which includes reworked songs from their catalog. The performance included a full orchestra amongst many other visual and audio treats. Photos by Cathy Poulton

It’s almost difficult to believe that we are now twenty years out from 1997 and all the great music that was released that year. Grunge was on the verge of taking its last breath and nu metal hadn’t yet left its mark, for better or worse, on the decade. Experimentation reigned and many bands’ releases […]