Interviews

Richmond, Virginia-based Metal band Enforced released their third full-length album War Remains in late April 2023 via Century Media Records, an album that was recorded shortly after a globe-spanning tour and a life, as a band, that has been pretty fast-paced since they first began recording music in 2017. The band features Knox Colby on […]

Although he is widely known in the rock & roll world as the drummer on some of Journey’s most popular hits – “Don’t Stop Believin’,” “Separate Ways,” “Any Way You Want It,” “Faithfully” and “Who’s Crying Now” – Steve Smith has always called Jazz his home base.

In the world of rock and roll, it’s hard to find a busier artist than Ambrose Kenny-Smith. His day job, if you will, is multi-instrumentalist with Melbourne, Australia’s psych gods King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. The group is unrivaled in both their studio output (over 20 albums in a decade with five of those […]

The Hackles recently released their first official album as a trio, titled What a beautiful thing I have made, via Jealous Butcher Records. It builds on two previous albums from the outfit, but with this album Halli Anderson emerges here as a fully-fledged band member, joining Kati Claborn and Luke Ydstie on the project. If […]

Josie Cotton recently released her new album five years in the making, Day of the Gun, via her own label Kitten Robot Records, co-produced by Paul Roessler. Singles and videos from the album have been making their way into the world for the past couple of years, teasing Cotton’s trajectory and densely woven ideas, but […]

Dokken. Foreigner. End Game. Dio. MSG. The list goes on for as long as your arm when it comes to naming all the bands and special musical projects that Jeff Pilson has been involved in. Going all the way back to ninth grade when he played dances with his band Mahogany, Pilson has had music […]

“All I’m trying to do is continue the tradition of The Stones, Zeppelin and The Faces,” says lead guitarist/singer/songwriter Dustin Douglas of the modern blues rock band Dustin Douglas & The Electric Gentlemen. “Take the traditional blues spirit, mix it with some heavy rock n’ roll and play it for a new generation.”  Douglas and […]

Singer, songwriter and producer Billy Raffoul recently released his EP, I Wish You Were Here, via Nettwerk and completed a rather substantial tour in support of American Authors. For Raffoul, unveiling the songs on the EP and gathering feedback from audience reactions had been a gradual process that impacted recording choices. Though the song-by-song approach […]

Beth Bombara has announced her album, It All Goes Up, which will arrive on August 4th via Black Mesa Records. It’s a record where Bombara has particularly noted certain elements of difference in comparison to her previous album, Evergreen, both in sound and theme. Since it’s decidedly a set of songs that derive from a […]

Dan Montgomery is an artist most associated with Americana music which developed from his early career as a singer/songwriter playing an acoustic guitar. His even earlier career began as a very young teenager playing Rock ‘n Roll in cover bands in his native New Jersey. That past might have faded from public knowledge had his […]

The Kinks have released The Journey – Part 1, a double CD featuring handpicked songs by the Davies brothers and Mick Avory.. The drummer legend shares the legacy of the band with Glide

Grammy Award-winning guitarist Eric Krasno (Lettice, Soulive) and Grammy Award-winning drummer Stanton Moore (Galactic, Garage-a-Trois) released the first album under their new banner of The Krasno/Moore Project in March, titled Book of Queens, which arrives on vinyl and CD later in the year. This instrumental project, forming a trio with organist Eric Finland, consciously sets […]

There is an old saying claiming that there is beauty in the struggle. A person’s ability to stare directly at a less-than-desirable situation and explore its margins to find some sense of purpose in it all is a trait held by only a few. Atlanta’s latest gift to hip-hop is a shining example of a […]

Grammy Award-winning Panamanian jazz pianist Danilo Pérez, also composer, educator, and social activist, has had a close personal and professional relationship with Wayne Shorter and reflects on his memories with the late great.

You probably know her from the 1988 movie Crossing Delancey. Or Carrie. Or Honeysuckle Rose. The girl with all the curls and bright green eyes was a mainstay on stage and screen since the mid-1970s. She was in the stage version of Amadeus before the Academy Award-winning movie was made, and she was this close […]

Even though it’s only existed publicly for a short amount of time, jazz pianist Steve Okonski’s debut album feels generational. Magnolia is subtle in its approach but once that first note hits, that subtly turns into a full emotional rollercoaster. Through seven magnificent examples of pure jazz, Okonski took the practice of jazz piano and […]

Vashti Bunyan was a young songwriter and performer courted by Rolling Stones’ manager Andrew Loog Oldham in the late 1960s, with whom she recorded Jagger-Richards songs and her own pieces. On the verge of leaving this path behind, she undertook an overland journey by horse-drawn cart to the Highlands of Scotland to join a commune […]

Jon Gutwillig has been a busy man. Recently, when he’s not touring the country with his Philadelphia-based trancefusion band, The Disco Biscuits, the affable guitarist has been working on a pair of formidable musical endeavors. In addition to Revolution In Motion, his yet-to-be-debuted space-themed rock opera, Gutwillig, along with author and longtime New Yorker journalist […]

Tyler Connolly had been home almost a week when we spoke for this interview. For someone just coming off the first leg of Theory Of A Deadman’s Rock Resurrection Tour with Skillet and Saint Asonia, he sounds pretty spry. I guess with a rocking new album, Dinosaur, having just been dropped on March 17th, getting […]

The Zombies are releasing their first album since 2015, Different Game, on March 31st via Cooking Vinyl Records. It’s a busy time for the band as they resume their Life is a Merry-Go-Round tour with an appearance at SXSW, concerts in Texas and New Orleans, and then a full UK Spring tour. Their appearance at […]