Archive: 2013

Against all odds: Our favorite bald frontman might be getting back in the saddle.

Photo credit: Beth Herzhaft Photography Colin Hay, best known for his tenure with the 80’s hit-makers Men At Work, has been enjoying a new phase of his career, returning to his roots as a solo artist. Hay has been touring, relentlessly to promote his favorite album to date – Gathering Mercury. His lengthy Finding My […]

Stephen Mills breaks down the fourth and finest season of the HBO drama.

Let Dream Theater fans rejoice – the band has not only released a self titled album of new material this past September but on its heels comes a Technicolor bombast of the band in all its live glory via the recent chart topping double DVD Live At Luna Park [which also features a pretty cool […]

Pat Metheny/Tap (Nonesuch): On his selections from John Zorn’s Book of Angels, Pat Metheny oscillates wildly from the near silence of carefully picked acoustic instruments to the cacophony of electric ones whose impact is only heightened through the muscular percussion of Antonio Sanchez. Sounding at once like everything and nothing you’d expect from a Pat […]

If there is one thing that musicians love to do, it’s get together with other musicians, pull out the guitars and jam for fun. When you’re able to do this to help an organization or a friend in need, it makes it all the more sweet. So when former Guns N Roses drummer Matt Sorum […]

Dreading that dull family holiday? Nervous about your Friendsgiving festivities? Drew Fortune has you covered with this Turkey Day playlist.

Da da da dum, da da da dum, it’s the Royal Potato Family!  Just after Halloween, the leaders of the Royal Potato Family music label, the Marco Benevento trio, presented themselves as the eccentric band you’d like to live next to.  They are a modern day Addams Family with Marco (keys) as the charismatic and […]

Moon Taxi has announced their first extensive West Coast Winter tour, kicking-off on January 13th, 2014!. The tour will see the Nashville five-piece on select dates with White Denim and Tea Leaf Green, along with a run of their own headline shows – including their first headlining show ever in Los Angeles on January 16th […]

Despite erratic lighting and obtrusive seating, the hometown heroes were undismayed, striving on and seemingly invigorated by the challenges to ensure their audience wasn’t disappointed.

The stories (while beautifully tying together) are pointless vignettes that have zero bearing on character or story development. It’s a throwaway episode that’s disguised as fun storytelling.

This week’s episode reflects on family — and marks a return to the monster-of-the-week format.

Robert Randolph at Woodlands Backyard

MGMT performing in Minneapolis, MN 11.18.13

Rogen’s bare-chested homage to a topless Kim Kardashian is stuff for the comedy time-capsule

Near the beginning of the documentary film Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me rock critic Lester Bangs equates Memphis rock band Big Star with The Beatles. At the time of his comment, a 1970s interview, few people had heard of Big Star. Turns out Bangs was on to something. Big Star’s three albums, released between […]

“She’s up all night for dasuuumn / We’re up all night fugoofuunn” — Bono

It wasn’t a perfect show, by any means, but that’s what made it worthwhile.

Mike Doughty Used to be in Soul Coughing. That’s not just a statement – it was how his most recent run of shows was billed. For the first time in over a decade, the enigmatic songwriter fully embraced the surrealist intensity of his old band’s material, which he has completely reclaimed as his own. Doughty […]

We first heard that megawatt voice on Elvin Bishop’s “Fooled Around & Fell In Love,” jolting us from our mid-seventies slumber of ballads and disco; where John Travolta had a Hot 100 single with “Let Her In” while Queen was going all “Bohemian Rhapsody.” It was a strange year in music, 1976, and with Mickey […]