Interviews

HÉR is a Polish experimental music group, whose name translates roughly as “here, now”, who will be releasing their first album, Monochrome, via Season of Mist on January 30th. That seasonal release is very appropriate since the album draws inspiration from the icy spirit of the Old North that we find in Viking sagas and […]

Toad The West Sprocket are celebrating 40 years of a band this year, an anniversary that comes on the heels of their extensive Good Intentions Tour in 2025. Along with this anniversary arrives a stonkingly entertaining new collection of their music, reinterpreted acoustically, titled Rings: The Acoustic Sessions,which arrives onJanuary 30th. With songs chosen from […]

Warren Haynes has been extremely busy these days. For him, that’s really saying something. He appeared on CBS News to speak about the passing of Bob Weir, sat in with the band on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, premiered a new song, “Desiree” for Paramount’s Landman, and sat in with Joe Russo’s Almost Dead […]

Soen is a Progressive Metal band from Sweden who released their new album, Reliance, via Silver Lining Music on January 16th, and are coming to the US for a North American tour in March. If you’re really quick, you might catch them on the “7000Tons of Metal” cruise from Miami at the end of January, […]

Ov Sulfur is a Blackened Deathcore band based in Las Vegas who will be releasing their second full-length album, Endless on January 16th via Century Media Records. Made up of already experienced musicians, they hit the ground running with their first EP and album, and have put considerable thought into the direction of this second […]

At 29, Madison Cunningham is standing at the edge of a threshold, looking backward and forward at the same time. In a year, she’ll leave her twenties behind—a decade she describes with a mix of nostalgia, sadness, and quiet exhilaration. What she’s carrying with her is not certainty, but something sturdier: a hard-earned sense of […]

When Patrick Davis left Camden, South Carolina, at 25 to chase songs and stages in Nashville, he carried with him the weight of a small town and the wisdom of a working musician’s son. Camden never let go. Neither did his father, a gig-hardened player who taught his boy to love the Beatles, Van Morrison, […]

ILUKA is an Australian-born, LA-based singer/songwriter who recently released her second full-length album via Nettwerk, titled the wild, the innocent, & the raging, which turns on the idea of “beginning again” throughout its 14 rocking tracks. The album stems from ILUKA’s own life experiences uprooting and starting over in the States, but it also casts […]

The Salt Collective is an international collaborative project initiated by French songwriter and guitarist Stéphane Schück, who also works in the field of medicine. They released their debut album, Life, in 2023, the product of a fairly remote process of collaboration, but a very satisfying expression of many musical voices brought together. Now, they will […]

If you were lucky enough to attend one of their infamous South By Southwest day parties in the alley off South Congress’s Yard Dog Art Gallery, then you likely experienced the magic of Bloodshot Records. These beer-soaked parties were raucous and gloriously unhinged in the way that anyone who loves rock and roll can appreciate. […]

Joe Bonamassa recently did something very good for the music-loving world. He put his clout to work and assembled a massive thirty-two song tribute album to one of his idols, BB King. And it just about blows your socks off. Wanting to do something to celebrate King’s 100th birthday in September, Bonamassa started asking and […]

Emma Swift’s new album, “The Resurrection Game,” unfolds like a series of letters written from the far edge of an emotional winter. It is a record of desolate beauty and delicately held hope, the sound of someone who has passed through collapse and found something luminous in what remained. Swift does not sing to escape […]

Danheim is the Nordic Folk and Viking-inspired project of Danish singer/songwriter and Producer Reidar Schæfer Olsen, who has been operating in Electronic and Ambient music for over ten years. Olsen draws on historical and mythological sources for inspiration, and through using organic elements in his music, he builds up an atmosphere of authenticity that spans […]

Kansas City Indie Rock duo Katy Guillen & The Drive, led by Katy Guillen (vocals/guitar) and Stephanie Williams (drums) has recently released their sophomore album, Make That Sound. From towering Rock heights, to quieter, more confessional moments, the album really stretches the duo’s sound and shows off their expansive musical chops. There seems to be an intuitive link between genre elements that take […]

On November 08, in Los Angeles, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame will hold their induction ceremony and finally the name of Bad Company will appear on the list of inductees. It’s been a long time coming for this rock band that formed from the bluesy ashes of Free. But here they will stand, […]

For Will Anderson, the act of making music has always been about connection. As the lead vocalist and songwriter for the Platinum-certified pop band Parachute, he spent over a decade crafting songs that soared through radio waves and across festival stages. But nothing in his long career could prepare him for the private, aching creation […]

It’s taken nearly eight years, but The Barr Brothers have finally returned with their latest studio recording, Let It Hiss. Despite the gap, this time has hardly been idle for Brad and Andrew Barr as they have been playing with their other long-running and prolific band The Slip, lending their instrumental talents to a range […]

John Moreland doesn’t chase validation. He just writes songs — slowly, deliberately, and only when the words demand to be written. “I just do my thing,” he said, his voice unhurried. “And hope for the best, honestly.” For Moreland, the act of making music has never been about fitting in. “I don’t really know how […]

In the burgeoning late 1970s punk scene in New York, there were dozens of bands, maybe even a hundred, as the decade moved towards its close. Some music magazines helped spread the word, though not always those most allied with mainstream music, and the British flavor of punk had not yet really arrived or been […]

For Sierra Hull, an innocuous 2023 phone call with the creative geniuses at Gibson ultimately led to the culmination of a dream decades in the making.  Immediately upon receiving her first Gibson mandolin at the age of twelve, Hull became enamored with the craftsmanship and pristine sound quality that sets Gibson instruments apart. In 2009, […]