Interviews

Cris Jacobs is going back to his roots.  Saddled by some recent bouts with mental health issues, along with a self-proclaimed musical identity crisis, Jacobs recently found himself at something of a crossroads in his career. Unsure of his next steps, Jacobs took solace from a serendipitous backstage encounter with bluegrass legend Jerry Douglas.  Inspired […]

Last week we aired Part One of our interview with Zev Feldman, an internationally recognized, GRAMMY-nominated independent record producer and the Co-President of Resonance Records in Los Angeles. He is a driving force for Record Store Day. The first interview focused on the process and his operation, while this, Part Two, addresses the releases that […]

Louise Post has it made these days, though maybe not in the way you think.  We talked with the Veruca Salt frontwoman and solo artist via Zoom about her journey 30 years into her career.  She first found success in 1994 with her indie/alt-rock outfit Veruca Salt, when it burst onto the scene with the […]

Zev Feldman is an internationally recognized, GRAMMY-nominated independent record producer and the Co-President of Resonance Records in Los Angeles. He is also a consulting producer of archival and historical recordings for Blue Note Records. He’s widely known as the “Jazz Detective.” Over the last 25 years, he has worked for PolyGram, Universal Music Group, Rhino/Warner […]

New Orleans-based singer/songwriter Lynn Drury will be releasing her album, High Tide, in various formats on April 5th, 2024, via Nolamericana Music. It was Produced by Papa Mali (Ruthie Foster), and recorded mostly live over three days last year at Dockside Studio in Maurice, Louisiana by Justin Tocket. Drury prefers to record in a studio […]

We all know a person who seems to master whatever task they put their mind to. There’s that one friend who never played organized sports but somehow embarrasses people in pick-up basketball and the other friend with a phenomenal singing voice that only breaks out if the right song comes on after a few drinks. […]

With a title like Screamin’ At The Sky, you knew this was going to be a rocking album. With sonics exploding and lyrics straight on, Black Stone Cherry has made their eighth studio record a memorable one. They have outdone themselves yet again by focusing on the lyrics and giving them an adrenaline shot with […]

Some artists play music but some artists live it. They inject their passion for art into every aspect of their lives, strangling their day-to-day life with creation and grace. Music grabs these people at a young age and never releases them, constantly reminding them that their purpose is to make magic out of the simplest […]

The Children is an experimental project that combines the creative visions of members of Swans, Angels of Light, and Cop Shoot Cop, among others. They will be releasing their album A Sudden Craving via Erototox Decodings on 12” LP vinyl and digital download on March 8th, 2024. Born from the New York-based DIY scene, and […]

LA-based duo Songs for Sabotage bring with them many years of experience in the New York music scene and in multiple bands and genres. They are releasing their sophomore LP, Clean Trauma, on March 13th, 2024. It represents a significant sound shift in comparison to their previous album, Night of Joy, moving into electronic and […]

“I love playing drums. I have eight children and grandchildren and we all play drums together. We get pretty tribal and that makes my life happy,” Artimus Pyle says with a laugh. Considering that his life has been filled with enough drama that would break any human being’s spirit, the Kentucky-born drummer is still standing […]

While just the words “steel pan ensemble” might conjure a “hard pass” from most wisecrackers, perhaps a few things to consider about Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band: They do a mean cover of “Nuthin But A G Thang,”  and they are from Germany, where there are no sunny escapist tropicales that might influence a Caribbean […]

Mackenzie Shivers recently released her fourth full-length album, primrose was in season, working again with frequent collaborator Kevin Salem (Rachel Yamagata, Emmylou Harris) as Producer, and the collection shows Shivers’ continual push into new and interesting blends of acoustic and electronic elements. The album is one of dynamic contrasts, both in terms of sounds and […]

New York-based Rock artist Des Rocs has been touring pretty steadily over 2023 and into 2024, and has recently announced a US Spring headline tour starting in April, with special guest Jigsaw Youth. These shows build on his autumn 2023 release of new album Dream Machine via Sumerian Records, a high-energy collection that reflects on […]

If there’s anyone who’s earned the right to do whatever the hell he wants with his music, it’s Mick Mars. He’s renowned for his years handling axe duties with Mötley Crüe, who burst from the Sunset Strip in the early ‘80s, dropping classics like Shout at the Devil and Dr. Feelgood. They were the band […]

British Columbia-based singer/songwriter Zada was born in Ethiopia and spent many of her formative years in the mountains of Canada where she became a proficient skier and horseback rider. She calls herself a “mountain girl” for that reason and brings a lot of her love for the natural world into her work, particularly through her […]

Chestnut Grove is a Philadelphia-based multi-genre Rock band who have been playing together for 12 years, and they recently released their album Can’t Stand The Music. The release followed a ‘Ta-Ta For Now’ tour where the band pulled out all the stops for some mega shows, including big hometown celebrations to finish things off. As […]

Back in the 1960s, Jenny Boyd and her sister Pattie were top models in Britain, being courted by rock stars and living a jet-set life. Serenaded by Donovan on his 1968 Hurdy Gurdy Man album with the Top 5 UK single “Jennifer Juniper” and marriage to drummer Mick Fleetwood, the middle Boyd daughter ended up […]

Time Spent Driving are a California-based band who were Emo groundbreakers in the late 90s/early 2000s drawing their members from Melodic Punk and Hardcore bands and after a break-up, reformed in 2012. In late 2023, they released new album Estrangers, their first via Negative Progression Records. The collection is coming to vinyl soon and reflects […]

Discovering artists after they’ve been recording for several decades can be both inexplicably exciting and overwhelming. The rush of discovering something new washes over your brain as you hear that song for the first time, you rush to their website or Spotify page to see what other remnants of magic they have out there. What […]