Archive: 2014

This week’s episode of ‘The Walking Dead’ is all about the fear of being alone, which makes sense because it’s titled…’Alone.’

PonoMusic is a revolutionary movement conceived and founded by Neil Young. The mission is to bring the highest-quality digital music to discerning, passionate consumers, who wish to experience music the way the artists intended, with emotion, detail and power intact. “It’s about the music, real music. We want to move digital music into the 21st […]

Lily Allen will release her third studio album, entitled Sheezus, on May 6th on Warner Bros. Records. An album pre-order launches today. Sheezus is the British pop singer’s first album since 2009’s acclaimed It’s Not Me, It’s You. The album finds her re-teaming with her long-time collaborator Greg Kurstin (Tegan & Sara, P!nk), except for on […]

Photos by Vikas Nambiar taken of The Peter Buck Band (Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey, Bill Rieflin, Kurt Bloch) and the evening’s headliner Alejandro Escovedo with Susan Voelz at Stuart’s Opera House, Nelsonville, OH on 2/23/2014

[rating=7.00] Recorded over two days at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, Acoustic at the Ryman showcases the soft, melodic side of Band of Horses. The album is warm and inviting, a reimagining of ten tracks from each of the band’s first four albums, with an emphasis placed on the slow crooners from each. Considering […]

With her youthful charm and lovely voice, she stands in front of a sold out crowd at the Avalon in Hollywood, lightly strumming her acoustic guitar and singing a song about California; although California is a metaphor for a lot of things. For such a young soul, she has a lot on her mind. Blending […]

After last week’s less-than-stellar return, ‘Community’ revisits what it does best: high-concept episodes.

Photos by Barbara Sheridan of Iron and Wine at The Social in Orlando, FL on 2/27/14.

moe. have announced the release of No Gust, No Glory, their eleventh studio album. Available May 27, 2014 on Sugar Hill Records, moe.’s new album No Guts, No Glory finds moe. at their most inventive and resilient. This marks the band’s first collaboration with renowned producer Dave Aron who has previously worked with  2 Pac, Snoop Dogg, […]

Michael Yellin goes long on Yes’ most controversial LP: “If prognerds were a rougher bunch, there would be a lot of busted noses over ‘Tales From Topographic Oceans.'”

The Sean Lennon/Charlotte Kemp duo known as The GOASTT (The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger) releases a new music video for “Moth to a Flame,”  Midnight Sun is the name of the new album.  Due out April 29 via Chimera Music, the LP has spawned this first video in the form of a nine-minute short […]

[rating=8.00] As founding members of Drive-By Truckers and long before that, as songwriting foils and kindred spirits amongst the Georgia and Alabama musical scenes, Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley, circa 2014, are survivors. Together, they’ve logged countless miles in planes, vans and buses, traded inordinate amounts of Jack Daniels swigs from the famous brown bottle, […]

1977 was an exemplary year for music: Fleetwood Mac, Steely Dan, Meatloaf, Elvis Costello and Billy Joel released groundbreaking albums, while the Sex Pistols ignited a grenade that changed the face of rock & roll; at least for a little while. But overall, 1977 was breezy and harmless as showcased by the artists up for […]

Vibrate does contain some of his very best songs, and for the devoted fan, the deluxe edition is unbeatable. It’s a celebration of the unique, mournful, self-deprecating music of Rufus Wainwright, and, if you’re unfamiliar with his work, not a bad place to start.

Following their eighth album Rave Tapes that came out in the U.S. January 21st via Sub Pop, Scottish post rockers Mogwai celebrated its release by announcing their own whiskey, RockAct81w, a limited edition Scotch. For a band that has never had lyrics  and still always maintained a creative precedent like few other musical entities, it’s […]

Photos by Billy Briggs of Atmosphere & Toki Wright and Big Cats at First Avenue in Minneapolis, MN on 2/17/14.

One of the most anticipated new releases of 2014 aside from Beck and Broken Bells has to be Cibo Matto’ Hotel Valentine (Feb 11th), their first new album since 1999’s Stereo ★ Type A. Hotel Valentine was self-produced over a two-year period by Cibo Matto founders and co-conspirators Miho Hatori and Yuka C. Honda and […]

The Drive-By Truckers (DBT) may be one of the most resilient bands around. For going on twenty years these Southern rockers have stayed on the road almost constantly while somehow managing to release at least one album almost every other year since starting the band. It helps that the band is fronted by Patterson Hood […]

[rating=6.00] Similar to the start of a one-night stand, Michael Ian Cummings met Josh Hubbard in 2011 at a party on a summer night in Los Angeles. Contrary to most intoxicated encounters, the relationship they formed would last much longer than just one night. Cummings and his friend, Noah Rubin, had been in a LA-based […]