Archive: 2013

Steve Lukather is feeling good. He answers the phone for our interview with a jovial “Hellllooooo, Darling” and is ready and raring to talk: “Ask me anything. Nothing is taboo.” Actually, what he is really anxious to talk about is his new upcoming solo album Transition, which debuts next week on January 22.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs are set to release their new album, Mosquito, April 16th, 2013! “We would love for this music to make our fans feeeeel something, for it to stir some shit up inside of them, whatever that may be,” says singer Karen O. “SO much feeling went into this record, it was the rope […]

You can listen to Sugaree from the new Jerry Garcia live archival release.

Today, the 13th of January 2013,Black Sabbath have announced the title of their new album, 13, which will be released this June (exact date TBA).  The original Black Sabbath – minus drummer Bill Ward -Ozzy Osbourne (vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar) and Geezer Butler (bass)–have recorded the album primarily in Los Angeles and were joined at […]

For each night of Jam Cruise there’s a theme that dictates how many cruisers will dress. Past theme nights included Super Hero Night, Green Night and Disco Party. Thursday’s theme was “Cirque Du Funk” and I’d say about 80% of those on board dressed in costume. In the four years I’ve done Jam Cruise, I’ve […]

Tom Waits and Keith Richards recording together to contribute a track to an album of pirate ballads, sea songs and chanteys just seems to make sense on so many levels. The duo are no strangers to working together, with Richards contributing guitar and backing vocals to Waits’ 1985 critically acclaimed album Rain Dogs, and more recently on […]

Bruno Mars will visit Jimmy Kimmel on Friday to wrap up Kimmel’s first week at his new 11:35PM time slot. Saturday Night Live will re-run an epsiode featuring Passion Pit (and the awesome Christina Applegate) so if you missed it the first time, this week is your chance. Friday, January 11 (all times ET) Death […]

It isn’t often I think about reality while on Jam Cruise, but I couldn’t help but smile on Wednesday afternoon when I thought about what I’d be doing on any other work week Wednesday. Instead of working at the office I was sitting on a magical boat in the middle of the Caribbean about to […]

The Wakarusa festival, which is celebrating its 10th year has announced its second round of artists including Dispatch, Amon Tobin, Umphrey’s McGee, Soja, and many more. The third round of artists is slated to be announced on January 17th. To view the complete lineup check out the festival’s official website.

Earlier this week, Edinburg’s Django Django released yet another video from their brilliant 2012 self-titled debut LP – this time for the track Hand of Man. In case you missed it, Django Django pulled #17 in the Hidden Track Collective Top 25 albums of the year. Check the video below directed by John MacLean who […]

Kid Rock has jumped the shark in a big way according to Schultz.

Paul Banks at the Varsity Theater, Minneapolis MN 11.25.12.

He is the man with the golden fingers, the zen master of soul sacrificing chords that ruminate through the very aura of the human spirit

 In response to overwhelming fan demand, Leonard Cohen’s acclaimed “Old Ideas World Tour” has just added a second North American leg.  After enchanting audiences worldwide, the legendary singer/songwriter/poet culminated the first series of North American dates with breathtaking engagements at New York’s Madison Square Garden and Barclays Center on December 18 & 20 – and […]

It never works this quick for most bands, but somehow brother Ryan and Taylor Lawhon made the record deal thing happen pronto.  In March 2012, the Lawhons uploaded three original songs to a Bandcamp page under their initial moniker KO KO, the name of a boat they considered buying in the Newport Harbor. They had tracked the music on a laptop in the bedroom of their home, utilizing everything from guitars and bass to keyboards, synths, and organ.  Growing up on their mother’s eclectic taste in new age music, it’s no surprise that the brothers captured their sound as more organic than outrageous.

The second day of Jam Cruise is a day spent at sea steaming towards our first port. The schedule of music and activities starts at noon, just a few hours after the last notes had been played the previous night, and runs until early the next morning – and that’s just the music that’s been […]

In recent years, as “Best Of” lists have proliferated and inched ever earlier into the fall,  fourth quarter album output has borne little fruit. This year in particular, it felt like the music industry just shut down in Novemener and went fishing until January. The early winter months of November and December were a plain […]

When it was revealed that Widespread Panic would be one of the headlining acts at the 10th installment of the Wakarusa Music Festival this spring, it seemed like only a matter of time before the Southern jam-titans would announce their return to the road after taking the majority of 2012 off. Yesterday Spreadheads rejoiced as […]

Brian Bavosa looks at what he thinks was the best year of Phish in over a decade.

Ava Luna, a soulful indie big band from Brooklyn, popped up on our radar this past year when they landed the cover of the print edition of Deli Magazine here in New York. After what sounds like a bit of a comedy of errors, they finally have their official music video for the haunting Ice […]