Coming home is a theme that many novels, plays, and songs often visit. Maybe even the proverbial "Prodigal Child" has to take a break from the road. Then again, maybe all those people's children raised on the road or who escape like Walt Whitman to the open road meet at a place like 10,000 Lakes.
The Toronto-based band Picastro combines elements of classical, folk and rock into a unique mix of low-key songs for those less than excitable moments. Straying away from typical rock instrumentation, Picastro employs cello and violin in addition to guitar, piano and drums to provide their odd comfort to the melancholy.
On the second album by the pride of Sydney, Australia, Dappled Cities delivers hooky pop-rock that is eclectic and experimental, but still manages to be a little bland.
Mike Dillon’s Go-Go Jungle are riding high on the out-of-the-box success of their debut album Battery Milk. Vibraphonist and percussionist Mike Dillon, who thus far has spent the majority of the summer touring as a
Dressed in a solid, blood-red and standing in front of a plain red stage, with an apple red guitar, Jack White kicked off the White Stripes’ first show at Madison Square Garden in style with the bare-boned power-blues of “Dead Leaves on the Dirty Ground”, kicking the fictional brother/sister team off and running and they didn’t stop for the next two hours.
Photos by Ashley Suszczynski of Reel Big Fish, Less Than Jake, Streetlight Manifesto performing at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia, PA on July 13th, 2007.
The Von Bondies plan to return in early 2008 after a three-year break with the Detroit rock group’s second major-label effort, "Love, Hate and Then There’s You." There have been
White Rabbits are currently in a New York studio recording some brand new tracks. The Brooklyn-band have been receiving much critical acclaim for their debut album ‘Fort Nightly’ which was
Keith Richards’ forthcoming autobiography has caused a bidding war among several publishing companies. Publishers have already offered The Rolling Stones guitarist an advance of $7.3 million (3.5 million pounds) according
Drive-By Truckers have returned to Athens this summer to cut their 8th studio album in Chase Park Transduction’s Studio A. Longtime Athens producer David Barbe will produce and engineer the
