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There comes a point in every man’s life when he sits down and starts contemplating his life’s decisions. Did he provide enough for his family? Did he make his parents proud? Did he keep the right ones out and let the wrong ones in? Did he follow his dreams? It’s a rite of passage for […]

Chances are you haven’t heard of Greylag, but the Portland trio recently released what may be one of the finer albums to hit this year. Consisting of vocalist and acoustic guitar player Andrew Stonestreet, lead guitarist Daniel Dixon, and drummer Brady Swan, the members of Greylag were drawn together seemingly by fate and the shared […]

Located just over the Florida/ Georgia border in Live Oak, FL  lies the infamous Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park which will host The String Cheese Incident’ s Suwannee Hulaween for the second straight year. Suwannee has made a name for itself by providing one of the most unique festival grounds setups and by hosting […]

There is a reason why the news about Corin Tucker, Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss resurrecting Sleater-Kinney for a new album and tour in 2015 sent so many music fans to run up and sing from the digital mountaintops this past week. Whether it was by design or not, the scoop came the week the […]

There are plenty of bright lights popping up in the music world these days. Everyone from hard rockers to singer-songwriters are shining through the rubble and emerging to breathe some fresh new air into their genres. Toby Lightman is one of those lovely breath mints. With the release of her fourth, and most accomplished, body […]

As the music world mourns the loss of rock and roll pioneer Jack Bruce, we decided to take a look back through the master’s long and storied history to examine the legacy he left behind. To call him monumental would be only to scratch the surface of his influence and impact on the state of […]

Ever since Primus’s take on the Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory soundtrack began streaming last week, we’ve been doing pretty much nothing but listening to it and discussing Primus. Les Claypool’s stalwart project has always been nothing if not bizarre and against the grain and their latest album is certainly a natural extension of […]

When guitar player Marc Ford joined the Black Crowes, the band was still running hot from their debut album, Shake Your Money Maker. With their high-rising singles “Hard To Handle,” “Twice As Hard” and “She Talks To Angels” garnering plenty of radio and video airplay, the southern rock band were sitting on top of the […]

Prepare yourselves, festival goers, as Art Outside Music Festival is only 1 week away (Oct. 24th-27th)! This will be the festival’s tenth year running, and the lineup they have put together is something truly special. The 2014 version headliners include The Motet, Conspirator, Emancipatior, The Polish Ambassador, Nahko & Medicine for the People, Papadosio, Quixotic […]

When Motley Crue made the announcement early this year that they were going to cease being a band following a big farewell tour, some fans actually cheered because it meant that bass player Nikki Sixx would have more time to devote to Sixx:AM, the band he put together with vocalist James Michael and guitar player […]

For a band to hang around long enough to produce seventeen studio albums, plus live records and various compilations, they have to have something that music listeners never get tired of hearing. For Judas Priest, they have been thrilling audiences with eardrum splitting, twin-guitar screaming, studded-out leather rocking for four decades. From 1974’s Rocka Rolla […]

Whether you are a country music fan or not, you have to admit that Carlene Carter is a pistol with vocal cords. The daughter of June Carter and Carl Smith, and the step-daughter of Johnny Cash, all three legends in country music, Carlene has always been the spunky gal with a love for sprinkling her […]

Why has Genesis’ ’86 LP acquired such a bad rap? The answer can be found in a few misconceptions regarding pop music and the band’s overall motives.

If you go about an hour and a half south of Memphis, you will happen upon a town called Clarksdale, Mississippi. There is a museum there, the Delta Blues Museum, and for anyone who has loved the blues, this is one of the most popular stopping places on their journey down what is known as […]

In what is now becoming an annual event in the Green Mountain state, the 4th annual Grand Point North Music Festival, curated and presented by Grace Potter and the Nocturnals along with Higher Ground is taking place this Saturday, September 13th and Sunday, September 14th, 2014 at Burlington, Vermont’s picturesque Waterfront Park. In addition to […]

With ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’, Marvel and Disney have shown the world that the appetite for grand space epics still exists — and it’s voracious.

Although harmonica player Kim Wilson is very excited about his new album with Mud Morganfield, a tribute to Mud’s father Muddy Waters called For Pops, we have started talking about Howlin’ Wolf with a joyful glee. “Sam Phillips loved Howlin’ Wolf,” Wilson stated. “The Sun stuff is incredible with the Wolf. I’ve got all of […]

If you take four musicians who grew up on the rock & roll of the fifties and early sixties and put them in a studio together, they are bound to come up with music that feels happy, uncluttered and fresh; the kind of sounds that you bop your head to, sway your shoulders and hips […]

It really doesn’t take much to start a band. You just need someone to sing and a couple of people to play instruments. But to maintain a band, it takes heart, soul, talent, luck, stamina, guts and most importantly chemistry. For without that special ingredient, your band will be nothing more than a sorry cover […]

It was really KISS that did it; zapping all those young boys between the eyes with bloody tongues and spaceman guitar solos, sparking in them dreams of being a rock star, singing or playing guitar in front of thousands of screaming fans. KISS is to blame for over half the rock & roll musicians walking […]