Will Sexton Announces New LP ‘Don’t Walk the Darkness’
“Most of my life,” says Will Sexton, “I’ve complicated things musically. But, nowadays, I have a different approach: it’s less cerebral, and more about gut and soul.” It’s been an evolution years in the making for revered guitarist/vocalist Sexton, who launched his career when he still in grade school. Now the towering Texan, nearing age […]
Alice Cooper’s Christmas Pudding Wins Again With Johnny Depp, Rob Halford & Joe Bonamassa (SHOW REVIEW/PHOTOS)
Alice Cooper’s Christmas Pudding has been a yearly affair in Phoenix for 18 years. The fund-raising event was started by Cooper and his wife as a way to get teenagers off the streets of Phoenix and into an environment that would teach them the arts. Cooper has spent his career ‘playing’ a teenager and it […]
SONG PREMIERE: John Dennis Explores Courtship with Sparse Folk Duet “Good Good Love”
John Dennis is a 27 year old Freeburg, IL native and Nashville-based recording artist who will be releasing his third full length album, Mortal Flames, on January 31, 2020. This record marks the newest installment in a series of elemental themed albums released with producer Bryan Clark and Rainfeather Records. It is preceded by Eternity’s […]
Happy 70th Birthday Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top (Watch Live Rockpalast 1980)
VIDEO PREMIERE: Marc Broussard Offers Soulful Reimagining of James Taylor’s Lullaby “Sweet Baby James”
Marc Broussard is a singer, songwriter, performer, and humanitarian. His commitment to making the world a better place is a mantra that he has been bound to since the beginning of his career. It has always been about tying music to a mission, one reason that his new studio album entitled A Lullaby Collection SOS […]
Tyler Connolly of Theory of a Deadman Talks New LP ‘Say Nothing’ (INTERVIEW)
Sometimes changes come slowly, allowing you time to adjust and acclimate to the new; but more oftentimes than not, change swoops down onto you and in the blink of an eye the landscape has altered and you either flow with it or panic. At one point, Theory (you know, Theory Of A Deadman, without the […]
Circles Around The Sun Announce New Studio Album & Final Recordings With Neal Casal
Circles Around the Sun have announced a March 13, 2020 release of their third full-length studio album. The self-titled, seven-track collection marks the final recordings of founding member and guitarist Neal Casal. The sessions were tracked at legendary recording engineer Jim Scott‘s Southern California studio just one week prior to Casal tragically taking his own life. In a […]
‘Mob Town’ Is An Unconventional, Albeit Unpolished, Mafia Movie
[rating=6.00] As part of the pantheon of quintessential American cinema, the mob movie is not only constantly revisited, but reinvented. Such is the case with Mob Town, a reframing of crime drama conventions, but still seems littered with the genre’s most reliable tropes. Director Danny A. Abeckaser, working from a script by Jon Carlo and […]
Happy 70th Birthday Tom Verlaine of Television (Listen Live at CBGB ’76)
Renee Holiday Talks Musical Rebirth, Poetry and More (INTERVIEW)
Renee Holiday is a soul singer. As an up-and-coming R&B artist in Seattle, she released two EPs (Scatterbrain and Molting) under the name Shaprece. She also released the more progressive C.O.A.L.S., which showed her power as a vocalist. As Shaprece, she was frequently featured as a guest on tracks by Seattle hip-hop artists. In working […]