Mike Doughty will take on songs by John Denver, Cheap Trick, the Stone Roses, Stephen Sondheim and more on his new covers album, "The Flip Is Another Honey," out Nov.
Seattle’s Soundgarden will release King Animal, the band’s first new studio album in over 15 years via Tom Whalley’s new record label, a partnership between his Seven Four Entertainment and
Rob Zombie is a no-bullshit visionary. While leading White Zombie on a gory-fun trail through the rock & roll hemisphere, he carved up electrifying stage productions and music videos filled with fluorescently vivid images of the macabre while playing grungily catchy tunes; something that he continues to do with his solo band.
With the final act of day two hitting the stage, one would wonder –How can Warren Haynes and Gov’t Mule take it up yet another notch? How about opening with a reggae version of Steve Miller Band’s “The Joker”. As the crowd quickly erupts into an impromptu “woo-wooo”, it was easy to see how the often touted hardest working man in the biz was not going to have a problem.
Led by Christian Wargo and Casey Westcott, supporting members of Fleet Foxes, Seattle-based quartet Poor Moon emphasizes similarly ethereal, harmony-heavy arrangements on its debut LP, but takes measured steps away from the Foxes' folk-pop sweet spot.
When it comes to Woodstock-era English blues guitar, there isn't a more underrated axe than Alvin Lee. Yet his blistering fret work as the frontman for Ten Years After continues to resonate through the steel strings of such modern-day mavericks as Jack White, Dan Auerbach and Guy Davis Jr. as adroitly as fellow Brits Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton, whom the guitarist should be placed alongside more regularly in terms of his influence on the art of those who came after him.
Goldenvoice has proposed to the city of Indio, Calif., a plan to hold up to five annual events at the polo fields home of the annual Coachella and Stagecoach festivals
AC/DC have announced that they will be releasing their first live album in 20 years in November. The album, which is titled ‘AC/DC Live At River Plate’, was recorded in
Though many, possibly all, may have overestimated Purity Ring’s “undergroundedness,” that belief was nearly instantly shattered when the duo not only sold out the venue, but led fans to scrounge for entrance days prior and pack themselves inside the day of. Ultimately this type of adulation labeled the Crescent show deservingly as, “Oh, you weren’t there? You should have been,” kind of performance in downtown Phoenix.
The folk-indie group Chamberlin received praise for their debut album Bitter Blood and after a cover disk to benefit Vermont flood victims, the group has returned with their next offering, the Look What I’ve Become EP.
