SONG PREMIERE: David Dondero Shares Self-Deprecating Hurricane Story with Pop Rock Tune “Thought I Was A Hurricane”
In 2006, when NPR’s All Songs Considered called David Dondero one of the “best living songwriters”, you would have thought that everything would have changed for him. But today, Dondero is, at best, uncomfortable with that badge. “That’s just one person’s opinion”, he says. He’s opened tours for Pedro the Lion, Against Me!, The Mountain […]
Moody Little Sister Explore Self-Empowerment Through Americana Soul on ‘Great Big Mama Sunshine’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
Last August, Moody Little Sister released their sophomore album Great Big Mama Sunshine. This album serves as catalyst in their canon. Not only does it find them departing from their piano-pop beginnings, but this album is their first after moving to rural New Mexico from Portland, Oregon. Naomi Sparrow’s vocals mixed with Rob Stroup’s arrangements make for […]
SONG PREMIERE: The Little Miss Rhythmically Addresses Resolution Pressure With “A Week Into New Year’s Resolutions”
The Little Miss is the moniker of Los Angeles-based artist, Hayley Johnson, who created the project in the spirit of old-timey folk and country-western music. With the addition of her bandmates, “The Cactus Kissers,” she has since found a way to blend the old with the new, focusing on maintaining the vintage western flair of a Marty Robbins while introducing the more contemporary existential and comedic elements of a Father John Misty (but with, perhaps, […]
VIDEO PREMIERE: Kiwi Jr. Jangly Roam Freely with Garage Rocker “Gimme More”
Circulated by Mint Records, already recreated at high volume on stages across Canada, labeled “Delightful as fuck” by NOW Magazine and “Naive enough to be charming” by Exclaim, Toronto’s Kiwi Jr. presents Football Money: a dispatch stitched out of fragments, a lustrous twelve-string paint-job unraveling ten booksmart tracks in under thirty minutes. A product of […]
Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons Ring in the New Year with Hometown Portland, OR Show (PHOTOS/SETLIST)
Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons employed their hard-driving rock n’ roll sound and Joseph’s poignant songwriting to escort a crowd at Portland, Oregon’s Star Theater out of 2019 and into 2020. Photographer Greg Homolka was on hand to capture some of the action. Walter Salas-Humara opened the show. Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons, Star Theater, […]
Happy 75th Birthday Stephen Stills (Watch “Treetop Flyer” Live ’83)
Surviving Allman Brothers Band Members Announce 50th Anniversary MSG Show
In a cool twist to start of 2020, the surviving members of The Allman Brothers Band‘s final touring lineup will celebrate the band’s 50th anniversary with big show at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on March 10, and the lineup will include drummer Jaimoe Johanson (the only remaining original member), Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, Oteil Burbridge, […]
SONG PREMIERE: Robert Vincent Questions Consumerism With Powerful Americana Tune “Conundrum”
Liverpudlian singer-songwriter Robert Vincent is a premier voice in the UK’s Americana circuit, having received the inaugural Emerging Artist Award from famed British broadcaster “Whispering” Bob Harris in 2016 — who described him as ‘”absolutely magnetic,” Vincent was then invited onto BBC4’s Old Grey Whistle Test: For One Night Only. That performance marked a real […]
The Decade in Film: The Best Movies of the 2010s
Despite popular belief, Hollywood proved that it still has some original ideas left in the 2010s.
Coachella 2020: Rage Against the Machine, Frank Ocean, Travis Scott Headlining – King Gizzard, Viagra Boys, Fontaines D.C. Onboard
Just as expected the recently reunited Rage Against the Machine are headlining Coachella 2019 as well as Frank Ocean and Travis Scott. Coachella 2020 takes place in the usual stomping grounds of Indio, CA across two weekends: April 10-12 and 17-19. Other artists of interest on this year’s billing include: Thom Yorke, Lana Del Rey, FKA twigs, IDLES, Fontaines […]