Archive: 2013

Ben Bridwell of Band of Horses has announced plans to release a solo album under the name Birdsmell. Bridwell will use the title to tour the US in November, with a limited edition 7″ featuring solo tracks available for fans to buy at the gigs. Alternatively, you can stream Birdsmell’s ‘Throw My Mess Around’ and […]

Check out John Keith’s recap/review of the first season’s fourth episode.

Check out John Keith’s recap/review of ‘The Broken Code,’ the fourth episode of the ninth and final season.

Gov’t Mule performing in Columbus, OH

Indie-rock icon Dan Bejar is releasing an EP of Spanish-language covers in November.

Widely regarded as one of the most outstanding underground American songwriters of our time, Cass McCombs marks his decade-long career with the release of Big Wheel and Others, out next week on Domino Records. Some of the genres that are to be found on this 22 song album are: road songs, rock songs, folk songs, […]

The Chicago trio’s new album, ‘Memorial,’ is out October 29th.

Check out recordings of Gabriel’s haunting new ballad.

If you think your life is busy, take a look at Dizzy Reed’s recent agenda: As the main keyboard player in Guns N Roses, he has been touring hard all over the world for the past few years. He just finished up playing with the Dead Daisies on the Uproar Festival tour, with a few […]

[rating=7.00] Del the Funky Homosapien & co.’s postscript to their riveting, world-gone-mad opus, Deltron 3030, picks up in the post-apocalyptic year 3040, where life and all its forms have surrendered to the calamitous pit the 2000 album only warned us about. Corporate evil and economic collapse dominate the dark narrative of Event II, the second […]

[rating=8.00] Virtually an EP based on a running time of just over thirty minutes, recorded, like many of his albums, largely by himself with help on drums and occasional other instruments, Tommy Keene’s Excitement at Your Feet is an exercise in contemporary musicology, permeated with passion, by an artist with his own estimable pedigree. A […]

The Pixies have announced a 33-city, coast-to-coast North American leg has been added to its 2013-2014 world tour and will kick off in Toronto, Canada on January 15, 2014. Tickets go on sale to the public this Friday, October 11 at 10:00AM local time; log onto pixiesmusic.com for purchasing information. Pixies – Black Francis/guitars, vocals, […]

Macca worries the Radiohead frontman wouldn’t clear his schedule.

What artist has the best Van Morrison cover? Impress us and you’ll be ‘Moondance’-ing in style.

Check out Amy Fletcher’s photo coverage of Kishi Bashi’s Chattanooga gig.

Luray is led by Washington, D.C.-based singer/songwriter Shannon Carey who creates banjo-inspired indie rock fused with Americana and folk on the debut The Wilder, released on August 27th. Recorded in Eau Claire, Wisconsin with her brother/producer Sean Carey (of S. Carey and Bon Iver), The Wilder became a family affair with the addition of brother […]

If you are in need of a workout you might want to skip the gym and head to a Michael Franti and Spearhead concert instead. Franti’s recent two hour plus show at the Calvin Theatre in Northampton, Massachusetts was a night of endless motion as the San Francisco based singer constantly ordered the crowd to […]

WSP playing the Fillmore in Detroit

Brice Ezell puts a spotlight on Elliott’s overlooked ‘Songs’ trilogy.

Released in March of 2003, Songs: Ohia’s The Magnolia Electric Co. is the hallmark of Jason Molina’s career – both a confluence of all he would create and a line in the sand to mark a shift in his songwriting approach. Ten years later, Secretly Canadian is charged with further illuminating the late Molina’s incredible […]