Interviews

Juliana Nash recently released her album Pennies In Time, and though she’s a prolific songwriter ever since her time in the band Talking to Animals, this collection has a very special history since it brings together never-before-recorded songs from the band’s live performance heyday in the 90s with her current mentality and outlook on life. […]

Slightly Stoopid has never been an easy band to categorize. A lot of the band’s sound is based in reggae, but they also incorporate rock, blues, hip-hop, and more into their sound. One thing is for sure: Slightly Stoopid is a band that does its best work onstage for its legion of devoted fans that […]

In September 2022, Park City, Utah will host the inaugural Park City Song Summit, an event whose founder and CEO, Ben Anderson of the jam band Aiko, is joined by Julia Rametta as Director of Business Operations and Julia Stout as Director of Event Operations. There is very little ambiguity about the goals and ideas […]

Siblings who pursue the same career are not unusual. It’s been happening since time began. But when they form bands together, sometimes the most iconic songs have been created: “Highway To Hell,” “Barracuda,” “Midnight Rider” and “Unchained,” to name but a few. Okay, so the Bacon Brothers haven’t reached that mountaintop yet but they do […]

The Lickerish Quartet brings together former Jellyfish members Roger Joseph Manning Jr., Eric Dover and Tim Smith, and the Quartet is a creative outlet for their continued collaboration in new directions. Before the pandemic period, they had decided to create a collection of songs together and laid substantial groundwork for what evolved into three EP […]

Bobby Mahoney and the Seventh Son are a New Jersey-based Punk-influenced Rock band who have been making music for over twelve years now. Their new EP, We Go On, was recently released by Telegraph Hill Records and channels all the verve and love for live music that only a couple of years of shutdowns could […]

With John Doe’s new solo album, Fables In A Foreign Land, released on Friday, May 20, the X singer/bass player finds himself in a pre-industrial state of mind, where living wasn’t easy but people were less cluttered with hyperkinetic flashes of social media, spending their lifetimes focused on pretty much what was right in front […]

Brooklyn-based five-piece band Jeremy & The Harlequins will release their fourth full-length album, ABRA CaDaBRA digitally and on CD on May 20th via Pasadena Records (ORDER), with vinyl to follow in the Fall. With it, the band delve into musical traditions from earliest Rock to bring a certain amount of “boogie” to the new collection. […]

Don McCloskey recently released his new album The Chaos and The Beauty via Lemon Hill Records, and it represents several years of development for a number of the songs. He also turned his band’s rehearsal sessions in Philadelphia ahead of the album release into live performances at Fergie’s Pub as a residency where they continued […]

Jamie and the Guarded Heart have recently released their second album, Funeral Song, following a period of releasing mainly singles, and have found that writing and recording the new songs in the pandemic period helped them express even more openly some of the themes of locality and loss that have always been part of their […]

The band NITE has recently released their second album, Voices of the Kronian Moon, and their first with Season of Mist, and are currently on tour supporting their release. Loosely identifying as Blackened Heavy Metal, NITE has moved further away from horror imagery with their second album, but early adopters should feel reassured that they […]

The Bay Area band Moonalice has been operating for about fifteen years, but in 2019, it got an infusion of new members, expanding them to a ten piece and making them more of a musical collective. The experience of Covid cut into their plans for extensive touring but did bring them closer as a community […]

Flames of Durga is a California-based three-person Rock band who have increasingly found their wings while weathering a very troubled time in the world. Featuring sisters Béah and Cecilia Romero on guitars and vocals and Nate Million on drums, the band released the single “Remember the Now”, building on their previous EP, shortly before going […]

Jacksonville, Florida-born and Nashville-based Jordan Fletcher recently released the EP True Stories which sets out to fulfill and exacting standard of really telling things like they were and are in his life. However, the EP is just the beginning of an autobiographical road that he’s embarked on after making a personal choice to explore more […]

Imagine a teenage girl in a room filled with posters pinned to her walls, calling the local radio station on request night and asking them to play a song called “Ball & Chain” by a new singer named Aldo Nova. Fast-forward to 2022 and that former teenager is talking to that now seasoned artist about […]

Danielia Cotton has always stood out. In her hometown of Hopewell, New Jersey, (population 2,010), she was one of only a handful of black students at her junior high school. However, she didn’t just stand out because of the tone of her skin. She also stood out because of her powerful voice when she sang […]

If you don’t know that Shooter Jennings is a multi-dimensional artist by now, you’re lost somewhere back in 1970’s Outlaw Country. The son of country music legends Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter has made his career diving headfirst into all aspects of the word music. He has done country, sure, but his heart has multiple […]

For more than a decade, The Pimps of Joytime have been living up to their name and bringing the party to fans across the country. Now they are gearing up to release their new studio effort Reachin’ Up on April 15th. The album finds the Pimps swirling funk, soul, jazz and world music into their […]

Chicago-based Indie entity Michelles recently released their third album, The Empty Promises of Rock and Roll, which was their first in five years. While the time it took to make the album stemmed at least partly from the global situation, it’s also the result of composer, vocalist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Michael Daly carefully building a […]

The LA-based band Goon have recently released the EP Paint By Numbers Vol. 1, and have an LP waiting in the wings to arrive this summer, too, featuring the work of Kenny Becker, Andy Polito, Tamara Simons, Dillon Peralta, and Emily Elkin. Both collections are said to be a departure from Goon’s 2019 album, Heaven […]