Reviews

There are plenty of things you can do on a southern spring night – sit on your back porch and enjoy a sunset, catch fireflies, or take in a baseball game. But on Saturday, May 02, 2026, my checkmark landed on the concert box. With Samantha Fish coming into Biloxi’s IP Casino & Resort with […]

The night of Wednesday, April 29, BADBADNOTGOOD played an exploratory and hypnotic sold-out show at Denver’s Summit Music Hall, the last stop of a short U.S. tour. The day of, BBNG stopped by local independent Denver-Boulder area radio station KGNU for an interview before chowing down at the Colorado-based burrito bistro Illegal Pete’s. Filled with […]

Toadies’ eighth studio album continues the band’s throwback alt-rock sound and stays true to the raw, aggressive roots of their early work. The Charmer was one of the last albums produced by the late Steve Albini, with whom the band had always wanted to work. As is typical with Albini albums, The Charmer has a […]

It’s probably no accident that Weird Nightmare is releasing its sophomore album, Hoopla, on May 1st via Sub Pop. If ever there was a record primed and ready to inhabit the experiences of a carefree summer (ideally the one after your senior year of high school), it’s this one. Even if your summer is full […]

Fishbone, founding fathers of the ska/punk/funk/metal genre, were built for times like these. Across four decades, the LA-based band that launched an army of “Fuck Racism” T-shirt-clad kids has sung about everything from nuclear anxiety (“Party at Ground Zero”) and government overreach (“Subliminal Fascism”) to the poverty cycle (“So Many Millions”) and, more recently, the […]

The Queens of the Stone Age aren’t playing it safe for the fair-weather fans on their current tour. Instead, they’re leaning into their theatrical side with the closest thing to a rock opera we can expect from a band that continues to evolve nearly thirty years in. The band is currently in the midst of […]

This past Saturday (April 25th) in Las Vegas, a (fittingly) gray overcast sky greeted the tens of thousands of black-clad/angst-inclined humans that descended in droves upon the Las Vegas Fairgrounds. Which, of course, could only mean one thing: the annual Sick New World Festival was clearly back in town! Indeed, after taking a brief hiatus […]

Ringo Starr approaches his 86th birthday in July indisputably at the top of his game. Underrated as a musician whose vocal expression, like his drumming, has always catered to the direct rather than the expansive, Starr nevertheless has been recording reliably and touring steadily ever since reigniting his career in the late 1980s. In 2025, […]

Hot off their much-buzzed-about appearances at Coachella, North Carolina rock outfit Wednesday descended on Portland, Oregon, for two sold-out nights at Revolution Hall on April 21st and 22nd. The band is no stranger to this city, having wowed Pickathon Music Festival in 2023 and subsequent shows that have only fueled their fire. By the time […]

The seven-piece psych-rock outfit Evolfo returns with the most relaxed, mind-expanding album of their career, Of Love. The Ridgewood, Queens-based players sifted through hundreds of hours of jams developed in their new studio to piece together the thirteen swirling tracks presented here.  The group, Ben Adams – Guitar, Synthesizer, Vocals, Matthew Gibbs – Guitar, Vocals, […]

Peter Case At McCabes – My Life To Live is not the usual career retrospective of a veteran artist. Granted, the former leader of the Plimsouls spans his canon here, but in doing so over the course of the seventy-one-plus duration of this twenty-two cut sequence, he plays, sings, and speaks with a tangible sense […]

As a longtime member of the Jesus and Mary Chain, Mark Crozer is no stranger to dreamy goth rock, and through several solo records and other projects, he’s explored everything from guitar pop to indie rock. But his latest solo effort, Homecoming – which delves into deeply personal issues of loss and grief – is […]

Graceland Way, the newest release from harpist-singer-songwriter Mikaela Davis, finds the artist luxuriating in the Los Angeles sunshine, delivering a modern Laurel Canyon pop-rock style, influenced by the famous location’s late 70’s heyday.     Working with longtime collaborators bassist Dan Horne and guitarist John Lee Shannon, the trio co-produced the album, with Davis and Shannon co-writing. […]

Coming on twenty into their run as one of Austin’s most consistently inventive rock bands, White Denim’s 13 feels less like a reset and more like a snapshot of everything they’ve learned how to do and how comfortably they can shift between those ideas. The band has always pulled from a wide range of influences, […]

A lot has happened in folk music since The Milk Carton Kids first debuted their unique, simplistic brand of it over a decade ago. The duo of Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan has experienced just as much change throughout their storied career as a singular entity providing ethereal acoustic folk to the masses. Massive soundtrack […]

Five years ago, Michael Cavanagh, long-time percussion expert for psych-rock powerhouse King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, made his solo debut under the CAVS moniker with a self-titled effort. The ten-song drums-only effort was an exercise in the drummer’s ability to capture a listener’s attention with exclusively drum patterns, resulting in a groovy, atmospheric effort […]

Blood Sucking Maniacs from Terry Allen, Jo Harvey Allen, and the Allen family seems to be a weird title choice. While “Blood” is central to the theme, vampires are only figurative through this indirect reference, partly stemming from a device that Bale, their son, assembled in the front yard of the Allen home in the ‘70s-a […]

Right now, this dour world needs a heavy “feel good” dose of Angélique Kidjo’s infectious joy, her get-up-and-dance attitude, and her ability to bridge cultures. The Benin (West Africa) artist that the former Newport Jazz Festival Artistic Director, Christian McBride, described as an entertainer tantamount to James Brown and Prince, gives it her all on […]

Jazz Dispensary’s compilations tend to work best when they lean into a specific mood, and Magia Brasileira takes the listener to the Samba-filled Brazil of fifty years ago. This set spans the late ’60s through the ’70s, focusing on Brazilian artists and adjacent players who blurred samba, jazz, and funk in a way that feels […]

Released in 2012, Just Tell Me That You Want Me brings together a wide range of indie and alternative artists to reinterpret Fleetwood Mac’s catalog. The compilation doesn’t just revisit the band’s biggest songs; it draws from multiple eras, from the early blues years to the more polished pop records of the late ’70s and […]