30 Years Ago Today – Gang Starr Release Pivotal Hip Hop LP ‘Step In The Arena’
Neil Young Announces 1990 ‘Ragged Glory’ Crazy Horse Era Live LP- ‘Way Down in the Rust Bucket’
Today, Neil Young has announced the release of Way Down in the Rust Bucket, a never-before released, incendiary and essential live album and concert film documenting a legendary 1990 show with Crazy Horse in Santa Cruz, California. Available for pre-order today and out on February 26, 2021, Way Down in the Rust Bucket features the debut public performances and much of […]
Built To Spill Side-Project Boise Cover Band Announces ‘Unoriginal Artists’ LP – Shares “Ashes To Ashes” (Bowie) Cover
Built To Spill side-project Boise Cover Band has announced the first-ever digital & vinyl release of its sole album, Unoriginal Artists (due March 19, 2021 via Ernest Jenning Record Co.). To ring in the announcement, they’ve shared their version of David Bowie‘s “Ashes To Ashes.” Check it out below… The one-off project convened in 2002 to record seven covers of everyone from David Bowie to Captain Beefheart […]
Mike Dillon To Release Trilogy Of Albums: ‘Shoot The Moon’, ‘Suitcase Man,’ ‘1918’
Mike Dillon has spent the last three decades playing well over 200 shows a year with both his own band, as well as a vibraphonist and percussionist with artists including Rickie Lee Jones, Les Claypool and Ani DiFranco. So when the pandemic hit in early 2020 forcing Dillon off the road, he instinctively directed his perpetually restless creative energy […]
Daniel Lanois Announces New Solo Album ‘Heavy Sun’, Shares Video for “Power”
Today, Grammy-winning songwriter and producer Daniel Lanois has shared a new song, “Power.” The track is the second single from Lanois’ forthcoming album Heavy Sun, and features lyrics affirming the strength of unity and cooperation, backed by spacious organ chords, chiming guitars and flourishes of synthesizer. Heavy Sun will be available on March 19th, the […]
Dale Crover Channels the Spirit of Dale Crover on ‘Rat-A-Tat-Tat’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
Melvins drummer Dale Crover flexes his musical muscles for his latest solo release.
‘I’m Too Old for This Sh*t’ Reminds Us We’re Never Too Old for Our Dreams (FILM REVIEW)
Maybe some dreams are too good to die.
VIDEO PREMIERE: Hearty Har (Fogerty Brothers) Trip Out with Synthy Psych-pop Tune “Waves of Ecstasy”
The 11-track debut record Radio Astro from Hearty Har, due out in February on BMG, is the work of rockers who are seasoned beyond their years and live up to their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame lineage with a strand of that DNA they can truly call their own. The sons of Creedence Clearwater Revival mastermind […]
‘MLK/FBI’ Is A Glorious Reminder That History Is Always Ongoing (FILM REVIEW)
A new documentary takes us inside the attempts to destroy the reputation of one of our greatest heroes.
Jeremy Levy On The ‘Star Wars’ Inspiration Behind His Grammy Nomination And Orchestrating ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ (INTERVIEW)
Composer, orchestrator, and arranger Jeremy Levy will be waiting to hear whether a song from his latest album, The Planets: Reimagined, will win a Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Capella at this year’s ceremony on March 14th. The song, “Uranus: The Magician” is part of a wider Jazz interpretation of Gustav Holst’s […]