Interviews

Second chances are always a good thing. For former Citizen Zero guitar player Sammy Boller, he’s looking forward to giving his debut album, the instrumental Kingdom Of The Sun, another whirl at getting heard. Released last year right as Covid was hitting and lockdowns were beginning, Boller may have gotten some attention but wasn’t able […]

In 2020, Swedish Death Metal stalwarts The Crown celebrated their 30th anniversary and went into production for their tenth studio album. To mark the occasion, they reissued a number of their albums on vinyl, and of course have had to postpone some of the party to a later date. But you won’t have to wait […]

Tori Ruffin has been a lifelong musician working with a plethora of industry giants over the years, from Prince to Dr. Dre and many more, and usually tours with Morris Day and the Time as a guitarist, as well as with Fishbone. However, his labor of love for many years out of his current home […]

Jordan Dunn-Pilz and Daniel Alvarez are TOLEDO. Literally. Two lives united in one creative process, void of ego and fixation to personal identity and agenda. Two young men in their mid-twenties living in Brooklyn, Jordan and Daniel have been best friends since they were eleven years old. They have grown together, shifted, stretched together, literally […]

The new album from singer-songwriter Lia Ices came during a time of major change in her life. She had made a major move from the East Coast to California, living on Moon Mountain in Sonoma, and was pregnant with her first child (she just had a second). These events inspired her to start writing and […]

She has one of the most iconic voices in rock & roll and she is not afraid to use it. Whether she was bitching about sorry-ass lovers or dreamily conjuring up enchanting romances, Ann Wilson has provided the literal soundtrack for how rock was supposed to sound. Forty-five years after the release of Heart’s debut […]

Indie rock is a genre that’s been recently subverted by teenagers left unattended with a microphone and cheap production software – leading the genre astray from its roots. Dylan Chenfeld’s Rebounder has been brewing a sound that is at the heart of alternative rock while crafting music that’s multidimensional. Describing the project in a sentence, […]

On Friday, February 26th, singer Bonnie Tyler will be releasing her eighteenth album. What? You thought she disappeared into thin air following her superstar hits of the eighties, “Total Eclipse Of The Heart” and “Holding Out For A Hero”? Those may be her most popular songs, still played on radio stations and tv commercials the […]

Staggering and sonically delightful, The Local Honeys deliver power, education, and a healthy dose of uprightness on their two-song release, Dying To Make A Living and Octavia Triangle, out via La Honda Records. Kentuckians through and through, Linda Jean Stokley and Montana Hobbs are exceptionally skilled old-time musicians with robust and dynamic voices that convey […]

The story of a bluesman getting discovered late in life is one that has repeated itself a handful of times over the last few decades. There is a sadness to this story in the fact that talented musicians can toil away most of their life without having their music ever heard and appreciated by anyone […]

For fans of British Pop, the names Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey are household names even if the names of bands keep changing. Fletcher’s unmistakable voice is at the center of Talulah Gosh, Heavenly, Marine Research, and Tender Trap. Even if you aren’t a fan, a quick listen to any of those bands will give […]

On March 5th, Badlands will release new 11-song album Djinn under the RITE label. Both the moniker and the label are run by Swedish composer, producer, and sound designer Catharina Jaunviksna, who creates her own Electronic-driven compositions as well as working on commercial projects in film, tv, radio, and theater. Her projects all reflect her […]

Cari Hutson probably never fully envisioned her first “true properly released” album would be an EP, but hey that’s just sometimes the way things happen in the music biz. After all quite a few successful bands have had debut EPs that set the course of their career: Kings of Leon, R.E.M., and Coldplay to name […]

Yes has a long history with bass player Billy Sherwood. Once he discovered them as a youth growing up in Las Vegas, that was it and he tried his darnedest to be Chris Squire. The only band member to be with Yes from the beginning, and on every album, Squire was a legend. But in […]

N8NoFace has been creating Synth-Punk music and releasing it into the wild on the internet since the days of MySpace, finding it to be an outlet for his voracious songwriting tendencies. Meanwhile, making like-minded friends and pursuing live performance eventually led to some great opportunities to spread the word about his solo work. In 2018, […]

Swedish Post-Metal band Cult of Luna are releasing a new EP, A Raging River, on February 5th via Red Creek Recordings, with distribution in the USA by Metal Blade and in Europe by Season of Mist. There are a number of things that are special about this EP in the context of the history of […]

Dan Auerbach is best known as one half of the arena-filling rock and roll outfit The Black Keys, but these days his real strongpoint is signing talented artists to his label Easy Eye Sound and lending his masterful skills as a producer to the albums it churns out on a regular basis. The latest example […]

Sean Scolnick AKA Langhorne Slim is an artist who thrives on cultivating an open and honest creative release, an inspired dance built on vulnerability and candor. Many of you reading this may know, Slim has had his own struggles with addiction and though being an addict does not define a person, it can penetrate them. […]

In June 2020, the Norwegian “Black‘n’Roll”/Metal band Vreid played a remarkable outdoor concert by livestream from their home in the mountains, capturing the landscape’s long connection to their music in their current band, and in previous band Windir. Featuring both an outstanding location and very impressive sound, the concert “In the Mountains of Sognametal” was […]

If you’ve been following the career of Aaron Lee Tasjan, there is one thing that has been a constant and that is his constant evolution as an artist. From playing guitar in rock bands to emerging as a solo troubadour in an Americana vein, to a full-fledged psychedelic ringleader a la Tom Petty, Tasjan has […]