Archive: 2014

Luther Dickinson is excited. It’s not the fact that, at the age of 41 the Mississippi guitar player has already built a towering musical legacy as a founding member of the North Mississippi Allstars, the band he has fronted with his younger brother Cody since the mid-90’s.  Nor is it any of the many (and […]

The Kickstarter that launched a thousand Kickstarters is now in theaters: The ‘Veronica Mars’ movie continues the ongoing saga that is the life of Veronica Mars.

Spiritual Rez continued their Florida swing on a Wednesday night in Winter Park, a historic, mossy, mansion-laden city just north of Orlando in the urban sprawl of Central Florida. The venue, Odin’s Den, a dim beer bar with two pool tables and a wrap-around bar, filled up with youthful reggae-rock devotees, bar flies caught in […]

[rating=7.00] Cosmos, the third album by Yellow Ostrich, finds the band exploring new territory sonically. For starters, it is now Yellow Ostrich’s second release as a full band. What started as a solo project by frontman Alex Schaff is now a four-piece rock band fleshed out by drummer Michael Tapper, bassist Zach Rose, and Jared […]

[rating=8.00] Your lyrics might have some mean cuisine references, but they are no match for the queens of “crazy food”, Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda of Cibo Matto. In a year that has seen an uptick in long-overdue returns to the national stage, from Neneh Cherry to the Afghan Whigs, for longtime fans of the […]

Recording is nearly complete for Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes, an album project from Elvis Costello, Rhiannon Giddens (Carolina Chocolate Drops) Taylor Goldsmith (Dawes), Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Marcus Mumford (Mumford & Sons) and producer T Bone Burnett, who are in Capitol Studios together to create music for two-dozen recently discovered […]

Cut Copy fed off the energy of the audience all evening, encouraging dancing and blissfully singing along, and they left the Washington, DC crowd exactly where a band should want them: happily wanting more.

When it’s time at the end of the year to round up the best albums of 2014,, we already know Beck and St. Vincent (and well deservingly) will be on those lists more than, but let’s not forget Fanfarlo’s smart and danceable Let’s Go Extinct. Recorded by the band and David Wrench in a tucked-away […]

The final episode before the legen-waitforit-dary(!) finale. As the title suggests (although it could’ve also been named “The Locket, Part Three”), we finally (presumably) get to see Robin walk down the aisle and experience the start of TV’s most epic wedding EVER.

The season three finale asks just as many questions as it answers — which is to say, the lives of Hannah, Marnie, Jessa, and Shoshanna are as “up in the air” as ever.

It’s not that she’s never played with blues/soul before, but it’s the mission statement of Joan As Police Woman’s fourth album “The Classic,” and serves as the record’s unifying vision.

[rating=6.00] With the promos and lead up to The Hold Steady’s newest album Teeth Dreams, the group has talked about taking their time and returning with “Big Rock” aspirations. While the songs seem to go down that path, the band paired for the first time with producer Nick Raskulinecz (Rush, Evanescence) who admittedly had not […]

This week’s ‘Walking Dead’ was all about setting up the finale, which airs next Sunday night. We caught up with most of the characters and one group finally made it to the much talked about Terminus.

Throughout 2013, YES marked a career first by performing a triple-header concert featuring three of their classic albums in their entirety, all in one concert. For 2014, the band is back to rock crowds nationwide with an amazing show. The 35-date summer tour will feature YES performing–in their entirety–1971’s groundbreaking album FRAGILE for the first-time […]

The Pixies will be releasing Indie Cindy on April 29th, the band’s first full studio album since 1991’s Trompe le Monde, on the band’s own independent label, Pixiesmusic (marketed and distributed worldwide by [PIAS] Recordings).  Pre-orders for most configurations can be placed beginning today at iTunes, Amazon, and other online retail outlets. “We started seriously […]

A fantastic group effort, “Awake” begins a new chapter for Tycho, one fans of Explosions in the Sky and instrumental rock could certainly warm up to. Longtime Tycho followers certainly have something to debate, but they have something to bob their heads to as well.

It’s two days following the death of Stooges drummer Scott Asheton and James Williamson has a full day of press ahead of him. Our interview had been booked two weeks prior but who knew a tragedy would strike someone close to him. Williamson, however, didn’t want to cancel. “You know, it’s not going to be […]

Illinois-born musician, Andrew Belle, has focused his career on songwriting with a lush atmospheric pop sound that would be reminiscent if Chris Martin of Coldplay went solo. His recent release Black Bear, has received rave reviews and was placed on the iTunes Best Of list for the singer-songwriter category in 2013. Belle spoke with Glide […]

The historic Orpheum Theatre in downtown Phoenix, which normally hosts ballets and operas, was the venue for St. Vincent’s Phoenix appearance in support of her brilliant self-titled album released in late February. And quite ironically, attendees found themselves directed to their seats by elderly ushers in crimson jackets; not your typical procedure for a performance […]