Interviews

The ground-breaking multi-genre collective Fishbone has spent several decades bringing together Ska, Punk, Funk, Soul, Rock, and more, and in late June released a new album titled Stockholm Syndrome. The album very much addresses our times, song by song, speaking to different situations we may ourselves face or merely witness in life, and bringing in […]

British Indie Rock outfit Band of Skulls is celebrating its 15th Anniversary by releasing a limited-edition deluxe box set called Cold Fame, which arrived on June 27th, via Artist Royalties Collective. It closely follows their first North American tour in several years, part of which they played in support of the Australian Rock band Jet. Both events are landmarks for […]

Movie Club are an instrumental Rock duo from Venice Beach, California, who are always coming up with new and inventive ways to explore the possibilities of their music and its intersections with visual and dramatic art. Earlier in June, they released a new EP, titled Black Mamba, that presents three new tracks, recorded and mixed […]

The Whimbrels are a relatively new, New York-area band formed by a notable collection of experienced musicians who will be releasing their self-titled debut album on June 27th. Described as a “power art-rock band”, members include Arad Evans, Norman Westberg, Luke Schwartz, Matt Hunter, and Steve DiBenedetto, whose band credits include Glen Branca’s Ensemble, Swans, […]

late night drive home (yes, spelled all lower-case), is the kind of band you’ve always wanted to see succeed. The young three-piece creates empathetic, enduring music that carries itself with an air of youthful poetics, quickly separating the El Paso-bred rockers from the rest of the burgeoning scene. What started as an earnest effort to […]

On June 20th, longtime New York-based singer/songwriter and guitarist Willie Nile will be releasing his 21st long-playing album, The Great Yellow Light. Steeped in inquisitive songwriting as his albums always are, Nile’s The Great Yellow Light also captures a certain flame of positivity that seems so embattled these days. Far from making positivity sound easy, […]

Colorado-based Alt-Country and Rock band The Gasoline Lollipops released their new album, Kill The Architect, on June 13th. It was produced by Steve Berlin of Los Lobos, recorded at Dockside Studios in Louisiana, and made possible by a massively successful Kickstarter campaign. If all these things sound very positive, you’re right, and add to that the fact […]

Strawberry Fuzz is a long-running Venice Beach, California-based band that started off focusing on Garage Punk Rock and has expanded over time to high-energy explorations of the many avenues of Rock and Punk. Their third record, Miller’s Garage, came out mid-May and boasts a whopping 14 tracks, hailing from older songs that have been show-tested for years and […]

Knox Chandler is known as an instrumentalist, and as a Producer, and arranger. With his new solo release, titled, The Sound, he also brings in his painting and writing to create a multi-media project that takes the form of a book with an accompanying musical download. Memoir-like, The Sound documents Chandler’s encounter with the Connecticut […]

Goth and Glam Rock band The Ritualists released their new album, Too Pure To Cure, in April, and hit the road soon after to deliver the new music to fans. Following their expansion to a wider lineup for the previous album, Baroque & Bleeding, the new album takes a similar tack of pushing the possibilities […]

Not every band gets to enjoy instant success, and for English rockers Sports Team, not only did they receive that explosive success, but they’re enjoying it better than any band has before. After they leaped into the modern rock pantheon with their 2020 debut album, Deep Down Happy, which garnered critical acclaim across the board […]

On May 20th, 2025, Jawbone Press will release Decade of Dissent – How 1960’s Bob Dylan Changed The World by longtime author and journalist Sean Egan. Having written and edited dozens of books on the subject of The Rolling Stones, The Small Faces, Punk, the lives of songwriters, and more, Egan has also amassed quite […]

The Cocktail Slippers are a high-energy and enduring all-female Rock band from Norway whose albums are released by Stevie Van Zandt’s Wicked Cool Records. Last summer, they released the EP Talkin’ About Love, and recently, they shared the double single, “Live at Blaker Festival Norway” which included their cover of “Gloria” and their original track, […]

Charming Disaster are releasing their seventh full-length record, titled The Double, on May 16th. They will also be releasing the record in a special 2-disc package that includes their 2024 compilation, Time Ghost, which collects their many singles over the past ten years. The songs created by Ellia Bisker and Jeff Morris span a number […]

It’s a beautiful spring day in sunny California, and Don Felder has something other than an interview on his mind when he calls me: “I might have to go out and jump in the pool later this afternoon,” he says with a hearty laugh that sounds very genuine. He may live across the country from […]

Much of the character of the modern world—and the source of many modern problems—stems from disparate things bumping together: borders, clashes of civilizations. And toxic pollutants and cleanliness. Such were the ideas that drummer Paul Derricott chose to explore via metaphor in his prog jazz outfit, COAST, on their new album, Ember. He wondered, “What […]

Do a lot of kids who start off being interested in artists like pianist McCoy Tyner before getting into Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, and Pearl Jam? Surely it isn’t common. That trajectory defines Norwegian guitar monster Hedvig Mollestad and is the key to understanding her. Mollestad’s eponymously named trio drops its new LP, Bees in the […]

James Krivchenia is a multifaceted artist who, whether you realize it or not, has made his way onto your playlist at some point From his session work with pop sensations like Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran, to drumming and producing for Grammy-nominated folk titans Big Thief, Krivchenia has his hands in many pots, none of which […]

In the mid-1980s, The Bolshoi were one of the most distinctive bands to emerge out of the English music scene. Blending post-punk and alternative rock, accompanied by witty and often wry lyrics, they had a darker edge than many of their peers, as they skillfully showed on singles such as “Away,” “Sunday Morning,” and “T.V. […]

DOSSEY’s latest EP, Crying in Public, stings with the brash, snotty attitude you’d expect from a punk record. But her anti-establishment ethos goes deeper than just political and social turmoil — it’s rooted in the wild rebellion of vulnerability.  This Austin-based artist wasn’t always getting tangled in mic cables and thrashing among sweaty fans. She […]