Interviews

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 […]

We Belong, is the eighth studio album from Sinkane, a band led by multi-instrumentalist Ahmed Gallab. And like much of Sinkane’s previous releases, it resists genre. It’s pop. It’s funk. It’s electronic. It blends the gritty punk newness of a 70s and 80s New York with the steady, foundational soul of the rhythms of his […]

Franklin-Tennessee-based band The FBR (named after Leonard Cohen’s “Famous Blue Raincoat”) released their debut album, Ghost, on January 19th. It builds on many years of songwriting separately and together, but also reflects a big leap forward when Malarie McConaha (lead vocals, electric guitar) and Tim Hunter (acoustic guitar, harmonica) realized that bringing their live band […]

The role of a producer seems to change as the years go by. In 2023, the right producer can be the difference between a smash hit and an inevitable flop. The combination of a dedicated producer who sees and trusts your vision and the proper studio environment is the recipe for pure music. That is […]

Vincent Neil Emerson has quickly solidified himself as one of the most endearing young voices in Modern Country/Americana. Entering a genre drenched in tradition and guitar prowess, Emerson found the middle ground between honoring the past and pushing the sonics forward. His latest creation, 2023’s The Golden Crystal Kingdom, is the artist’s most expansive album […]

New York-based No Wave band The Comateens’ “Danger Zone” and “Elizabeth’s Lover” have recently been reissued by Left for Dead, a label with a long connection to both the band and their original guitarist Ramona Jan. The tracks arrived on CD (with gatefold sleeve), 12” LP vinyl, and digitally via Bandcamp. The Comateens were founded in […]

Music can soundtrack triumphs as much as it does failures. Despite what is going on in your world and the world around you, there is always music to fall back on to reach a level of zen that can’t be found anywhere else. When you mix this with an undying love for your instrument and […]