Archive: 2025

Poker is more than just a game of cards; it’s a battle of wits, and bluffing is one of the most powerful weapons in your arsenal. But bluffing isn’t just about pretending you have a better hand—it’s about reading your opponents, controlling your emotions, and knowing when to act decisively.  Whether you’re a beginner or […]

Brazenly raw emotion and headbanging psychedelia overflow in the dynamic sound of Exceptional Failures. The PDX two-piece, made up of singer/guitarist Corey Distler and drummer Damian, shatters expected limitations of a duo with heavy riffs and fiery, unpredictable solo breaks. Distler’s poignant lyrics, often drenched in the darkness or the spiritual worth of humankind, are […]

Bay Area-based songwriter Deborah Crooks performs and records under her own name and with the band Bay Station. Place-based and rooted in practice, her work is informed by her studies of natural and personal history, as well as co-writing and collaborating with other artists and musicians. Her most recent projects include the multi-character, bird-themed folk […]

Being a multi-billion-dollar industry, iGaming grows exponentially as there are plenty of businesses ready to take their place in this niche. However, this brings new challenges that require smart solutions. Indeed, new rules and market saturation create a challenge for operators who want to stand out and scale up. Traditional single-brand models are no longer […]

With the Grateful Dead in town for a show at Austin’s Municipal Auditorium the night before Thanksgiving 1972, Jerry Garcia and Phil Lesh joined up for an epic jam session with Doug Sahm at Austin’s Armadillo World Headquarters concert hall. The jam was so epic that it would include Leon Russell and members of the […]

The music world has never seen anyone like Rahsaan Roland Kirk. The blind multi-instrumentalist could play three horns at once through his amazing circular breathing technique. He was a master of every woodwind instrument, and used unusual instruments like the manzello, the strich (a straight Eb alto saxophone to which he added a French horn […]

Singer-songwriter Afton Wolfe is arguably the most conceptually artful troubadour that we have heard since Tom Waits. The reference to Waits is rather obvious in Wolfe’s deep, gravelly voice and in his off-the-beaten-track concepts. Yet, Wolfe also possesses the fearlessness of Bruce Cockburn, the intellectualism of Leonard Cohen, the deep woods poetry of the late […]

Available on vinyl, digital and compact disc formats for successive late 2025 Record Store Days, Warren Zevon’s final live performance, recorded Live At The Edmonton Folk Music Festival, joins 1980’s Stand In The Fire (issued in expanded form twice) and 1993’s Learning To Flinch, as sterling examples of how the late singer/songwriter so artfully transposed […]

Crammed into the basement of Philly’s First Unitarian Church on November 19th, Austin’s Die Spitz tore through just over a dozen songs, fusing the spirit of late-’70s Orange County hardcore with the sharpened political consciousness of Gen Z. The band — whose members were born decades after hardcore first blew open — managed to channel […]