Interviews

When coronavirus first hit last year and everyone was nervous and frightened about what was happening, this album would have been the perfect pick-me-up if it had been out. But Lee Rocker, upright bass player for The Stray Cats and his own Lee Rocker Band, conceived, wrote, and recorded Gather Round during this time of […]

Pony Bradshaw (James Bradshaw) may not be a household name but he is quickly carving out a respected place amongst great Southern songwriters and troubadours. His thoughtful approach to songwriting seems is rooted in storytelling in the most literal sense, and he crafts lyrics filled with intriguing, often troubled characters that haunt their Southern landscape. […]

On January 22nd, Omnivore Recordings released the Destiny Street Complete collection in CD and digital formats, featuring the work of Richard Hell and The Voidoids, which explores the entire “saga” of the Punk album Destiny Street and the definitive remixed version of that work. The album, which follows 1977’s Blank Generation, was recorded in 1981 […]

If the pandemic has done anything good, it’s given people a chance to do things they had been wanting to do. Guitarist Joel Hoekstra had already begun his latest album, Running Games, with his Joel Hoekstra’s 13 project prior to lockdown but with touring on hold, it freed him up to really dig in and […]

On Friday, January 22, the 9th Annual She Rocks Awards will livestream their ceremony, honoring eleven artists who have made a positive, distinguishable mark in music. Nancy Wilson of Heart is among the amazing women being paid tribute to (others include The Go-Go’s Kathy Valentine, Cindy Blackman Santana, Cherie Currie, Amy Lee and Starr Parodi). […]

Composer, orchestrator, and arranger Jeremy Levy will be waiting to hear whether a song from his latest album, The Planets: Reimagined, will win a Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Capella at this year’s ceremony on March 14th. The song, “Uranus: The Magician” is part of a wider Jazz interpretation of Gustav Holst’s […]

Over the last few months of 2020, 415 Records and Liberation Hall teamed up for the remastered release of an anthology and several albums by bands who were part of the 415 label’s original slate of releases in San Francisco in the late 70s and early 80s during the rise of Punk Rock and Alternative […]

Steve Hackett may call his new album, Under A Mediterranean Sky, an acoustic album but it’s truthfully a breathtaking journey across the landscape of melody and instrumentation. Invoking the dramatic pulse of battle to the sweeping romanticism of Egyptian sunsets, Hackett has produced an album for the bodily senses, culled from his many years of […]

A fitting title, Passenger. And what a ride it has been for Michael Rosenberg, the 36-year-old singer-songwriter from Brighton. Certainly, there are humble beginnings to this story. Rosenberg embarked on his musical journey young, seemingly forced in the direction of his dreams, the path he was destined for. With a clear and simple direction: write […]

The cast and crew of ‘Dickinson’ on what makes their period dramedy relevant to life in the 21st century

The director behind HBO Max’s ‘Heaven’s Gate: The Cult of Cults’ on chipping away at the caricatures to tell the real story behind one of America’s most notorious groups of religious extremists

LA-based Punk-inspired band Egg Drop Soup recently released their new video for “Swamp Ass” and their second EP, Eat Snacks and Bleed, in the lead up to the holidays as a way of making the most of the time they’ve been able to spend writing music and recording. They’ve also been able to build their […]

Brian Wheat has a story to tell. And although he shares many of the trials, tribulations, and hopping good times with his band Tesla, this story is focused more on the man behind the bass. Son Of A Milkman: My Crazy Life With Tesla, will hold your attention from page one, where he tells the […]

Minneapolis-based Rock band The Soviet Machines just released their self-titled LP via DC-Jam Records on January 1st digitally, and on February 12th they will release the vinyl. The power trio have already dropped lead single “Get Your Kicks”, as well a video for the song, and on the album itself worked with notable Seattle Producer […]

On December 4th, Atlanta punk rockers The Coathangers acknowledged an upcoming 15 year milestone for their previously out-of-print self-titled debut album by releasing a Deluxe Edition of the collection with Suicide Squeeze Records, featuring remastering of the tracks and bonus material. A timely and punchy music video has also been released for one the tracks, […]

Death Metal band Abysmal Dawn’s newest album, Phylogenesis, arrived six years after Obsolescence and saw a change in lineup and a renewed focus on personal elements in the songs as well as a push for more creative approaches to songwriting. The result is a unified and, at times, frightening vision of the current and near-future state […]

When I started thinking about interviewing songwriters, and who I would absolutely love to speak with, Brad Barr was the first person that came to mind. Not only is Brad one of the finest songwriters of his generation, but he is also one of the finest guitar players, singers, and live performers. He effortlessly bridges […]

The Chilean Metal band Nuclear took a few years to release their new album, Murder of Crows, but it was worth the wait. What fans received was an interesting evolution in their sound, but not a shift in their sensibilities. While the guitar parts bring in the warmth of traditional Thrash, the vocals often take […]

I was a Stones/Zeppelin/Beatles kid but in 1978 I heard a song called “Strange Way” on the radio that perked up my ears. It was catchy, it was rock-y, it was prog-y. I went and immediately bought the album, Elan, and tried to find out more about this band called Firefall. Well, it seems they […]

What would have been a big tenth anniversary year for the London-based Ska Punk band Buster Shuffle has been mediated by the difficulties of 2020, but the party goes ahead in the form of a fully remixed and remastered edition of the band’s first widely released album, Our Night Out, coming to vinyl for the […]