Reviews

As longtime bassist with The Young Dubliners, Bren Holmes helped the band craft an impressive mix of Celtic rock that paid just as much attention to the lyrics as they

Drummer, composer, producer Nate Smith is one of the leading names in today’s abundant crop of progressive, genre-bending and mashing artists who continue to redefine what Black music means in

In the latest Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle offers his illustrated commentary on An Act of Desperation, the new album from Blind Adam & The Federal League, in his signature six-panel comic strip

Candlebox’s seventh studio album continues the foray into pop-rock that began with 2016’s Disappearing In Airports. Though the Seattle band capitalized on the breakthrough success of grunge music on its

Saxophonist and composer Jon Gordon is also the author of three books, a keen observer of socio-political events and attitudes. Much of what he has observed recently has not sat

Harris Thurmond is no stranger to the Austin music scene. Thirty years ago he was performing on Sixth Street with his band Hammerbox and after moving to Austin fifteen years

This writer, who can be very selective about blues-rock artists, has always admired Joanne Shaw Taylor (JST) for her inventive guitar playing which doesn’t venture to the same cliché’s that

Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker sound like the names of a couple of early nineties shoegazers, and effectively that’s how they were regulated when they first started touring. In the