My Roots

He may be young but Marcus King has the fastest old blues fingers around today. With only three recordings under his belt, the just-turned 22-year-old from South Carolina has already made a name for himself in the blues/jamband scene, having shared stages with the Tedeschi Trucks Band, Widespread Panic, Blackberry Smoke and Warren Haynes, who […]

The highly anticipated follow-up to Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite’s 2013 collaboration, Get Up!, will finally hit shelves on March 30th and it is every bit as emotional, dramatic, fun and entertaining as their first time out. Maybe even more so because with No Mercy In This Land the duo has gone deeper into the […]

Ty Tabor wasn’t planning to do a double album; he actually just wanted to gather up some of his online-only songs and put them together onto a CD for the fans. But the creativity started cooking and before he knew it, new songs were coming to him. So the Best Of changed over to a […]

Since 2010, Myles Kennedy has been pulling a non-stop double-duty workload as a singer for guitar player Slash’s solo band and Alter Bridge, the band he joined in 2004. Not many vocalists can pull something like that off but Kennedy has – recording and touring with both bands, alternating as one entity took a break […]

Up until 2015, David Duchovny was known primarily as an actor, the star of several hit TV series – The X-Files and Californication – and movies like Kalifornia and Return To Me. But 2015 turned pivotal for the native New Yorker as it was the year he not only published his first book, Holy Cow, […]

Although Duane Betts is already well-known as a guitar player, having toured with Dawes a few years ago, was in Backbone 69 with Cisco Adler and Christopher Williams, and has jammed with the likes of Gov’t Mule, The Doors’ Robby Krieger and his father Dickey’s old band, the Allman Brothers, he is ready to make […]

Don McLean wrote (and sang) perhaps the most iconic song in American rock & roll, “American Pie.” Yet, he has done so much more than that one song which propelled him to fame, fortune and sold out concerts the world over following it’s release in 1971. McLean, a prolific songwriter, had hits throughout his fifty […]

Frank Hannon wasn’t planning to do a record. He was setting out to improve his voice, challenge it, explore it in different ways. But a record is what he eventually found himself in the midst of once his little personal project kept spiraling full-ahead. That record, the first of three volumes, is called From One […]

They are the band that would not die. Panned by critics but loved by fans and musicians alike, Anvil has had the last laugh in all the naysayers’ faces. After forty years and sixteen albums, they are still out there playing and recording and doing interviews and having a grand old time the whole way. […]

On February 28th, Clearwater, Florida, will be hosting a rocking show at their Capitol Theatre, as that’s the night the reunited original Dixie Dregs will hit the stage for the first time in forty years. The band that recorded 1977’s Free Fall – Steve Morse, Andy West, Rod Morgenstein, Steve Davidowski and Allen Sloan – […]

Joe Satriani is releasing his sixteenth solo album this month. That’s almost insane. But considering that Satriani seems to have an endless well of licks and melodies stored up in that brain of his, it’s no wonder he keeps putting out incredibly intense, other-worldy music that never ceases to amaze us. On January 12th, he will […]

If you’ve heard the single, “Young Adult,” from Inara George’s upcoming album, Dearest Everybody, you can tell that a lot has been on the mind of the wife and mother of three young children, and none of it really revolves around Hollywood parties or hanging with rock stars. That’s because her family has been her […]

When best of the year lists start popping up in December, they are mostly filled up with well-known established artists and on-the-rise youngsters starting to make a big noise for themselves. Older musicians still out there making music rarely see their names on the lists but that doesn’t mean they aren’t just as noteworthy. Like […]

We have so many things to be thankful for that Tom Petty had done in his career and one of his last, most beautiful contributions was producing Chris Hillman’s new solo album, Bidin’ My Time. Capturing the singer and master mandolin player in his finest glory is a testament to both men, that great music […]

Greta Van Fleet Leads Must Needed Hard Rock Revival (INTERVIEW)

Rex Brown doesn’t mince too many words. He’s about as straight-forward as an arrow heading directly towards the red circle. So when he was ready to make some new music, he wanted it on his terms, in his words and let the fans see if they liked it, without him begging like a wide-eyed pop […]

When talking about Prog, inevitably Spock’s Beard will come up in the discussion. I mean, how can it not? Yes, ELP and Genesis may have been the genre’s biggest stars in those early days but Spock’s Beard was the new generation’s messiah of intelligent, mind-bending sounds. And one of their greatest achievements was the 2002 […]

“Light it up, let’s get this show on the road!” Co-lead singer/keyboard player Lawrence Gowan sings out the rally cry and Styx is off and running for ninety-plus minutes of rock & roll at Studio A inside the IP Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi on Friday night, October 20th. Those words also happen to be the […]

“We’re An American Band.” “Some Kind Of Wonderful.” “I’m Your Captain/Closer To Home.” For Grand Funk Railroad, the hits kept rolling in the seventies as they packed arenas for supercharged live shows. Mark Farner, Don Brewer and Mel Schacher took longhaired rock, fused it with their love of R&B and high-tailed their Flint, Michigan, band […]

You can hear it in their voices that this is something genuinely exciting. With last Friday’s release of Rise, the first collaborative EP from Orianthi and Richie Sambora, you can easily imagine this is only the tip of the iceberg for the duo who call their project RSO. The five songs spring to life with […]