Brent Smith of Shinedown Talks Big New Album ‘Planet Zero’ (INTERVIEW)
Shinedown fans have been waiting a little longer than they expected for the new album to show itself. Planet Zero was originally supposed to be released in late April but because of some production details it was pushed back to the mid-summer, which excitedly, was this past Friday, July 1st. The title track serving as […]
The Bacon Brothers Return With New EP ‘Erato’: A Shrewd Talk With Michael & Kevin Bacon (INTERVIEW)
Siblings who pursue the same career are not unusual. It’s been happening since time began. But when they form bands together, sometimes the most iconic songs have been created: “Highway To Hell,” “Barracuda,” “Midnight Rider” and “Unchained,” to name but a few. Okay, so the Bacon Brothers haven’t reached that mountaintop yet but they do […]
John Doe Talks Punk, Country, X, Poets & New Solo LP ‘Fables In A Foreign Land’ (INTERVIEW)
With John Doe’s new solo album, Fables In A Foreign Land, released on Friday, May 20, the X singer/bass player finds himself in a pre-industrial state of mind, where living wasn’t easy but people were less cluttered with hyperkinetic flashes of social media, spending their lifetimes focused on pretty much what was right in front […]
40 Years Later, Aldo Nova Still Out To Prove He’s No One Hit Wonder (INTERVIEW)
Imagine a teenage girl in a room filled with posters pinned to her walls, calling the local radio station on request night and asking them to play a song called “Ball & Chain” by a new singer named Aldo Nova. Fast-forward to 2022 and that former teenager is talking to that now seasoned artist about […]
Shooter Jennings Talks Multi-Dimensional Artistry With Yelawolf & Bond With Brandi Carlile (INTERVIEW)
If you don’t know that Shooter Jennings is a multi-dimensional artist by now, you’re lost somewhere back in 1970’s Outlaw Country. The son of country music legends Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter has made his career diving headfirst into all aspects of the word music. He has done country, sure, but his heart has multiple […]
Joss Stone Talks A Life of Soul, Collaborations & Acting On ‘The Tudors’ (INTERVIEW)
Joss Stone is a multi-talented lady. She’s a singer, songwriter, actress and can cook in her kitchen with hundreds of her fans watching her culinary successes … and disasters. But whatever she does, it’s always with a smile on her face. Not even covid could deflate Stone’s happiness, although it did deter her plans for […]
Joan Osborne Shares Stories Of Her Unrelenting Soul Career (INTERVIEW)
“I’m fresh from my walk and feeling good,” Joan Osborne tells me when I call in for our interview. “I live mostly on the East Coast so it’s great to be someplace where it’s 60 degrees in the middle of January.” Osborne is indeed refreshed from the sunny California weather and spends our time together […]
Samantha Fish Is The Real Deal: The Next Blues Kingpin Shares Stories New & Old (INTERVIEW)
“At the end of the day, we’re all still a bunch of kids cause we play music for a living, right,” Samantha Fish says with a knowing laugh. Having been a musician since her teens, she is very familiar with life on the road, playing guitar and singing songs of her own creation. She was […]
Jay Jay French of Twisted Sister Answers Questions Never Asked & Talks Lifetime of Hustlin’ & Rockin’ (INTERVIEW)
“I became a rock star but I’m also a real musician who changed my focus in order to succeed.” Twisted Sister guitar player Jay Jay French had announced to his family one day that he was going to be a rock star. After spending years as a drug dealer in New York City in his […]
Go-Go’s Drummer Gina Schock Talks ’80s Glory Days & Reigniting Bionic Pop Punk Spark (INTERVIEW)
A photograph is worth a thousand words, and for Go-Go’s drummer Gina Schock, she has probably taken thousands of pictures in her lifetime so far. Lucky for us, she is sharing some of those snazzy polaroids from her years in The Go-Go’s in her new book, Made In Hollywood: All Access With The Go-Go’s. Landing […]