B-Sides

Just over a month ago, Phoenix Americana outfit Jared & The Mill releaseded their new EP Orme Dugas. The album is named after an exit near the band’s hometown and encompasses the beauty and peaceful setting a band yearns for with life away from home. With this release there has been lots of time away from home as […]

One of the important comeback albums in blues-rock this century has just been reissued in the UK by a label devoted to his catalogue. Johnny Winter’s I’m A Bluesman (Talking Elephant Records TECD334), first released by Virgin/EMI in 2004 to acclaim (one of seven Grammy nominations in his career), the title was a sharp riposte […]

July 29th, 2016 should’ve been a national holiday for punk rock in literal form. Both coasts represented ostentatiously by the legends of the sport, left and right, East and West. The almighty Descendents representing spritely for the left coast and the ever-boisterous Bouncing Souls anchoring the east coasters, with a combined mass of just short […]

“I like to have a good time, and I don’t care who gets hurt.”—“Mr. Bad Example,” 1991 If you mention the name Warren Zevon to someone, they usually give you a look that indicates that they have no idea whatsoever who he is or that they know him as the “Werewolves Of London” guy. His […]

In the three years the late great rock impresario Bill Graham presented concerts at Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusetts, he provided more of a service than just filling up a couple open nights of the week at the summer home of the Boston Symphony. He was reaffirming the viability of rock shows as public events and […]

With expansive yet tight, overdriven riffs but subtle at times, Dinosaur Jr. has patented their explosive sound and have developed an epic alternative rock back catalog. With the release of their 11th proper studio album Give A Glimpse of What Yer Not last Friday (August 5), Glide thought it would be a good time to […]

Touring as an up-and-coming band is as much about the highs as it is the lows, and many music fans don’t realize how much it takes for that band they love to make it to the stage. In Tales From The Golden Road we let musicians and bands share their personal stories of life on […]

Minneapolis’ We Are The Willows recently celebrated the double vinyl release of Picture (Portrait) parts 1 and 2 on March 25th. Fans of The National, Sufjan Stevens and Basia Bulat will appreciate the sounds of this collective that offers unique vocals and discrete arrangements on non traditional instruments. Derived from a series of 350 letters written by […]

Philadelphia’s The Lawsuits released their second full length Moon Son on May 13th –  11 songs of unadulterated rock that pushes boundaries of genre defintion while remaining experimental and exciting: on a plateau just below that of the great My Morning Jacket. Guitars, keys and synth fill the album and feature the give and go trade-off […]

For the month of May, Georgia singer-songwriter Nate Currin will be sharing weekly dispatches from his current tour in support of his newly released album ‘The Madman And The Poet’ (REVIEW). We are excited to let Nate take the reins and share his journey with us as he traverses the East Coast, Midwest and South of this great […]

For the month of May, Georgia singer-songwriter Nate Currin will be sharing weekly dispatches from his current tour in support of his newly released album ‘The Madman And The Poet’ (REVIEW). We are excited to let Nate take the reins and share his journey with us as he traverses the East Coast, Midwest and South of this great […]

For the month of May, Georgia singer-songwriter Nate Currin will be sharing weekly dispatches from his current tour in support of his newly released album ‘The Madman And The Poet’ (REVIEW). We are excited to let Nate take the reins and share his journey with us as he traverses the East Coast, Midwest and South of this great […]

For the month of May, Georgia singer-songwriter Nate Currin will be sharing weekly dispatches from his current tour in support of his newly released album ‘The Madman And The Poet’ (REVIEW). We are excited to let Nate take the reins and share his journey with us as he traverses the East Coast, Midwest and South of […]

Since the untimely passing of  Prince, the world has mourned in the only way it knows possible – dancing, singing and generally celebrating the life of a man who wiggled his way into the lives of the worthy. In the fine tradition of celebrating the heroes that helped shape their lives and ideals, the Prince […]

Another one gone. Another one whose influence exceeded the imagination and forever changed the musical landscape. Like Bowie, Haggard and Frey earlier this year, Prince’s death reminds us that certain artists are capable of making an everlasting impression, and when they leave us, there’s a hole that’s hard to fill. Prince, however, was more than […]

This is probably the most important piece that, as a music writer, I have yet written.  These are probably the most important images that, as a music photographer, I have yet taken.  This is not just a show review. It is one part review, one part personal retrospective and, I guess, if you’re just going […]

The death of legendary keyboard player Keith Emerson adds to the sad tally of legendary icons who have been suddenly and unexpectedly taken from us in rapid succession so early on in this already fateful year. Each death confirms the fact that an exclusive club of musical greats, particularly those who took part in the […]

The guys in Dublin Ireland’s Otherkin would like the word Britpop to not even be equated to their explosive sound – after all they are from Ireland- lets at least charm in a little Thin Lizzy, Bell X1 and maybe even The Frames if we’re going in that direction. Maybe its just wishful thinking of […]

The Eagles’ set-lists from the two shows roughly a week apart during the summer of 1974 didn’t vary terribly much, but the performances did. Moving from the informality of the Lenox Music Inn and then on, in very short order, to the one-of-a-kind shed that remains the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, the band seemed to […]

There might be those who want to easily disregard LANY as just another electronic combo, but the trio has been hitting on all pop cylinders since they uploaded some tracks to Soundcloud in 2014. What makes em hitting the right notes is their penchant for R & B – silky 80’s grooves and slinky notes […]