Archive: 2021

Drummer Mike Pride takes his intense touring and two years of recording with the punk outfit MDC and twenty years later turns the band’s raucous catalog into swinging acoustic jazz. It’s the kind of project that could only come from the label RareNoise. I Hate Work draws its material exclusively from MDC’s iconic 182 debut […]

Kelley Mickwee and her voice are one of the most recognizable talents making music in her home state of Texas at the moment – even if you may not immediately know it. Mickwee has been a mainstay in the Texas-based music scene for years: currently, as part of Kevin Russell’s Shinyribs’ Shiny Soul Sisters, singing […]

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Memphis soul gospel queen Elizabeth King recorded her first single in 1970, and if all had gone as planned, she would have made her first album a few years later. Instead, it took another half-century, but Living In The Last Days, the latest sacred soul long-player from Memphis’s Bible and Tire imprint, captures King at the […]

Alex Bloom grew up with pop and rock standards, studying music in college. Today his focus is putting his education to use, exploring what it means to be a singer-songwriter in the 21st century. Bloom prefers to forgo categorization and sticks to what feels authentic. “My goal with all the music I release is to keep exploring […]

New York City rockers The Velvicks are back with a new single and it is every bit as edgy, gritty, and rock n roll as you might expect. “ChaChaCha” is a classic rock anthem packed to the brim with killer electric guitar riffs, fast-paced drums, and pulsing bass rhythms that propel the track forward with an […]

With a half-century of hindsight, Faces’ Glyn John-produced third album ‘A Nod Is As Good As a Wink… to a Blind Horse’ (released 11/17/71, and second in ’71) accurately quantifies perception of the band as ersatz Rolling Stones. With their natural predilection to rock, along with a flamboyant frontman, plus a penchant for turning sloppiness […]

While the world rants and raves about Nick Cave (deservedly so), there is another baritone that has been doing the dark and mysterious on his own terms for just as long: Howe Gelb. Yes, the Giant Sand luminaire has certainly earned his artistic privileges and then some with his dusty vibrato and windswept mysterious tunes […]

Despite changing the course of film history with Easy Rider, Dennis Hopper’s career behind the camera in the years that followed was sparse. Most of that absence is due to the failure of his 1971 follow-up, The Last Movie, which effectively led him to be exiled from the director’s chair for nearly a decade. That […]

Energetic and hard-hitting, Royal Castles are making nostalgic but contemporary garage-rock. Hailing from the Royal City of Guelph, Ontario and featuring the power trio of Katrin Sawatzky, Jordan Gabriel and AJ Johnson (Juno-nominated Cuff the Duke), the three-piece take influence from the bands of their formative years, delivering pounding drums, crunchy guitars and a healthy […]