My Roots

George Lynch may only be days away from releasing his new record with Lynch Mob but he is already at work, in fact almost finished with, his next project. When he called in to talk about Rebel a few weeks ago, he was actually pulling up to the studio in LA about to record the […]

Bullet For My Valentine drummer Moose Thomas is wandering around a mall on one of the band’s days off amidst Slipknot’s Summer’s Last Stand Tour, which they are supporting alongside Lamb Of God and Motionless In White. With a new CD about to drop this Friday, August 14, there is an air of excitement around […]

A lot has happened to Vanessa Carlton since she released her last album, Rabbits On The Run, in 2011. She married Deer Tick frontman John McCauley, gave birth to a daughter, moved to Nashville from New York City, and started writing new songs for her forthcoming album Liberman. For a singer-songwriter, you can’t have big […]

Ask most songwriters and they will tell you that collaborating with another artist can be the spark of life … or at least the spark for some great music. Some of our greatest songs were created by two or more musicians sitting together in a room humming out a melody or rattling off some words […]

There are some young artists you hear and you shake your head and wonder about the future of rock & roll. But then you hear the Temperance Movement and you know it’s actually in safe hands after all. Having already broke in the UK and Europe with their debut EP Pride, followed by a full-length […]

Tommy Aldridge is a drum hero. But if told him that he would no doubt humbly laugh and shake his head and quietly thank you for the compliment, all with an egoless smile. However, if you were one of the fans inside the Hard Rock in Biloxi the other night, you know differently. The man […]

“This music represents a time in my career that I feel helped define the potential of my guitar playing.” Bruce Kulick is not talking about KISS or Grand Funk Railroad. He is talking about the time he spent in 1974 with a couple of best friends in a basement in New York, playing and creating […]

The summer has come upon us and with the touring season in full blaze, bands are ganging up together to hit the road in excitable ensembles. No doubt one of the most anticipated traveling caravans this summer, the Tedeschi Trucks Band has snatched up soul goddess Sharon Jones and her Dap-Kings, as well as Doyle […]

Chris Jericho has never been content to be just one person. From the time he was a kid, he wanted to be not only a pro wrestler but a singer in a rock band. Both of those dreams came true. So why stop there. He wanted to talk to interesting personalities so he started a […]

It takes a lot of guts to start something new; especially when the last adventure had generated positive accolades and four recordings. And when the change, on paper at least, seems so dramatic, you might not know how your fans will swallow the new you. For Oli Brown, the young British blues guitarist that Classic […]

From the opening chords of Bernard Fowler’s new solo CD, The Bura, out this week on May 21, you realize he plans to hold true to his statement that, “It’s a rock & roll record with seasoning.” With guitars still humming from the opening track “Shake It,” he delves into a masterfully smooth, slow-burning trip […]

This may come as a surprise to some of you reading this but actor Jeff Daniels is an accomplished guitar player, singer and musical storyteller, having released six albums, his first a live recording in 2004 to benefit his theater company, the Purple Rose Theater. For the man who appeared in such memorable films as […]

“Our music definitely hearkens another era,” singer Nicki Bluhm has said and she certainly proves that with her new album with her band The Gramblers. Called Loved Wild Lost, her voice is as cool as a Tennessee mountain spring. But it is the way she turns a phrase that ultimately wins you over. Describing the […]

Kristin Diable has been on the music scene for several years now, nabbing accolades from notable publications and winning over fans who come to her shows. Not one to focus on covering other people’s songs, not even during her early years when she was singing with her sister, Diable has always been about originality, pulling […]

“I consider myself unbelievably lucky,” British-born singer Michael Des Barres told me a few weeks ago when calling from his home in California. With a new album and a gloriously positive attitude about life, Des Barres takes all the good, the bad, the ugly and the extraordinarily fun with a wink and a smile. He […]

When Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds recorded their sophomore record, Pound Of Dirt, frontwoman Arleigh Kincheloe learned something very important about herself as a singer. “I learned a lot about my voice and I learned how to accept who I am as a singer and what that means,” she told me back then. “I […]

A concert is supposed to be experienced. It’s not supposed to be sit-listen-clap-repeat. Not at a rock concert, at least. It’s an on your feet until they go numb, fist shaking, lungs bursting from screaming and singing experience. It’s supposed to be a moment in time when the kids aren’t whining in your ear, the […]

Juliana Hatfield was a star. Her 1993 album, Become What You Are, which she recorded with her band The Juliana Hatfield Three, hit the ground running, spawning the #1 single “My Sister.” She was all over MTV, made the cover of Spin, had a song in the Winona Ryder flick Reality Bites, hung out with […]

Each one of us loves turning on the radio and being hit in the face with a balls-out rocking tune. It just makes the day worth living, the place you’re headed to a little bit better. Unfortunately, in today’s overgrowth of bland indistinguishable pop, that experience happens less and less. But because of the simple […]

“Marc, we need you.” It was 1987 and current Ramones drummer Richie Ramone had walked out of the band with shows coming up in the near future. The band was desperate. Marky Ramone had moved on after his departure in 1983. He had cleaned up and was working. He had a new grasp on his […]