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If you think your life is busy, take a look at Dizzy Reed’s recent agenda: As the main keyboard player in Guns N Roses, he has been touring hard all over the world for the past few years. He just finished up playing with the Dead Daisies on the Uproar Festival tour, with a few […]

Luray is led by Washington, D.C.-based singer/songwriter Shannon Carey who creates banjo-inspired indie rock fused with Americana and folk on the debut The Wilder, released on August 27th. Recorded in Eau Claire, Wisconsin with her brother/producer Sean Carey (of S. Carey and Bon Iver), The Wilder became a family affair with the addition of brother […]

Brice Ezell puts a spotlight on Elliott’s overlooked ‘Songs’ trilogy.

A few weeks ago, former RIP Magazine editor Lonn Friend stepped inside a Genesis time machine when guitar player Steve Hackett cracked open his oeuvre to release a spectral prism in Illinois. “Steve Hackett’s whimsical guitar has been swirling in my subconscious since I was eighteen years old,” Friend told me recently. “His riffs and […]

The first thing you notice when chatting with Berlin’s Terri Nunn is her laugh. It’s big and infectious. You get the feeling that she could tell the world’s worst joke but her punchline laughter would have you doubling over right alongside her. The next thing you notice is her honesty, her nonchalant comfortability talking about […]

Since 1993, Spaceland Presents has gone from hosting events (under the moniker Club Spaceland) out of a small Silverlake pub (which currently operates independently as the Satellite) to becoming one of the premier independent club promotion and event companies in Los Angeles. Until it ended its partnership with the 1717 Silver Lake Blvd drinking hole […]

Don’t fret that the end of summer is almost upon us. There’s something special to look forward to this weekend. The Life is good festival, which outshines other local music festivals by focusing on positive vibes, optimism and most importantly – family. Attendees at this year’s festival can expect to experience a plethora of free […]

Hailing from Adelaide, Australia – Atlas Genius is unique band with a unique story of success. The band’s nucleus is vocalist/guitarist Keith Jeffery and his brother Michael who plays drums and the very first song that they completed was a song called “Trojans”. After weeks of retooling that song, Michael insisted that the song should […]

Every now and then, you run into someone who is so no bullshit that it almost shocks you. Richie Ramone, drummer for the legendary Ramones during some of their most prolific years, is one of those people. He tells it like it is, walks the walk through the pretenders and over-the-toppers and plays rock & […]

Check out this electrifying Mars Volta performance from 2003.

This year’s Music Midtown Festival in Atlanta, GA has quite the impressive lineup, with a nice spread of rock, hip hop, pop and indie music to keep everyone interested. Here’s the list of our top eight acts to see at the festival this year.

Canadian singer/songwriter Jordan Klassen will be releasing his  full-length debut Repentance on September 18th. Repentance, the follow up to 2012s EP Kindness, was recorded at Buena Vista Audio with producer and multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Anderson (Aidan Knight, In Medias Res, Sheree Plett). Ukuleles, strings, horns, choirs, glockenspiels, omnichords accent Klassen’s chamber folk/pop alongside guitars, pianos, and […]

Gabriel is a master of doing hilarious and bizarre things on-stage. Check out 10 of his trademarks.

Jeff Angell is on a mission. The frontman/guitar player for the Walking Papers is in Lubbock, Texas, and looking for a swimming pool. It’s a day off for the band, who are tearing up their headlining slot on the Ernie Ball Powered Zippo Encore Stage on the Rockstar Energy Uproar tour, and relaxing in the […]

In this installment of “Back Off, Jerk,” Charles J. Moss defends the Kevin James film comedy ‘Paul Blart: Mall Cop.’

Last week Ben Shepherd unleashed his solo album In Deep Owl. Full of haunting and hypnotically alluring tunes that furrow the brow at the deeper meanings underneath some pretty cryptic sounding lyrics, Shepherd has not three-sixtied away from his Soundgarden roots. He has just chosen an almost Lou Reed/Plastic Ono Band kaleidoscope in which to […]

Chelsea Wolfe has been called a lot of things from “goth-folk,” “doom-folk” and “drone-pop,” yet she although she has been known to embrace the dark side, she refuses to be typecast as a modern day Siouxsie Sioux. After composing her first two albums on her mother’s classical guitar resulting in brooding cinema score flared compositions, […]

Check out a classic 1976 performance from the definitive jazz-fusion band.

With this week’s “Scraping the Barrel,” we take a closer look at #98 on the IMDB Bottom 100, ‘Plump Fiction.’

Check out 10 eclectic tracks that work even better stripped-down.