Archive: 2020

The Band’s appearance at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center had the potential to be triumphant, if for no other reason than the venerable open-air venue, summer home of the Philadephia Symphony Orchestra, represented something of a hometown show: it is situated within two hours  Woodstock, the quintet’s upstate New York home at the time.   But […]

The iconic 86-year-old Wayne Shorter is revered in the top echelon of jazz greats both as a player and composer.  Wynton Marsalis, the Artistic and Managing Director said it succinctly, “Wayne Shorter is at the highest level of our music- you can’t get any higher than him. Everybody strives to have a personal sound. Wayne’s […]

It’s interesting to ponder on what kind of music Miles Davis would be making today if he were alive. Perhaps the latest effort, Absurd in the Anthropocene from widely hailed L.A. -based prolific trumpeter, composer, and producer Dan Rosenboom provides one possible answer to that unanswerable question. While Rosenboom often leads his own quintet or […]

It was a night of wild guitar heroics as prog-rock legends plus hard rock virtuoso guitarists performed at the legendary Roxy Theatre on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, California. On January 25, 2020, Sons of Apollo, the juggernaut prog-rock supergroup, introduced several songs from their just-released album MMXX (Twenty Twenty) along with a few tracks […]

Chris Maxwell is a quintuple threat: gifted songwriter, singer, guitarist, producer, arranger. He’s best known for the catchy, jagged junkyard rock he made with the legendary New York band Skeleton Key in the 90’s and more recent work as half of the Elegant Too production team. With the latter he’s composed and recorded music for […]

In the latest Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle offers his illustrated commentary on Watch It Burn, the new album from Washington D.C. punk rockers American Television, in his signature six-panel comic strip form. Click on the image for full resolution (best viewed on desktop):

Sir Richard Bishop is back from his travels around the world! With Oneiric Formulary, his forthcoming album due out April 17th via Drag City, he’s dug deeper into his bag of extra-musical gestures from the eternal and unknowable, along with a few sounds we might recognize, all transmuted for our mortal ears’ enjoyment. The title Oneiric […]

Little Dragon returns with their new studio album New Me, Same Us, available physically and digitally on March 27th on Ninja Tune. Entirely self-produced and recorded at the pioneering Swedish four-piece’s long-term home-built studio in Gothenburg, the album is another chapter in the continuing evolution of Little Dragon. The album’s infectious lead single “Hold On” […]

Sparks – brothers Ron and Russell Mael – have announced the May 15 release of their 24th studio album, A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip, and a European run of tour dates in October. In the announcement video, the band also confirm the release (without providing any dates) of the Sparks-written musical feature film Annette, starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard […]

Firefly Music Festival, the east coast’s largest music and camping festival, taking place June 18 – 21, today announced the full lineup. The 2020 lineup includes Rage Against the Machine, Billie Eilish, Halsey, Khalid, Blink 182, Maggie Rogers, Cage the Elephant, Illenium, Run the Jewels and more performing across six stages. Eilish made history at the 62nd annual Grammy Awards by becoming the first woman […]