Archive: 2014

alt-J announced their 2015 North and South American Tour today. The brief 11-date tour will kick off at Festival Estereo Picnic and will include dates at Lollapalooza Chile, Lollapalooza Argentina, and Lollapalooza Brazil. Following those dates, the band will head to New York City for their Madison Square Garden debut on March 30. alt-J will […]

The Lone Bellow recently announced their new album Then Came The Morning, to be released on January 27th, 2015. The album was produced by Aaron Dessner of The National and mixed by Peter Katis. Now the band has annoucned a coinciding tour that will begin February 23rd in Portland, Maine and cover much of the […]

AC/DC said it best: “Rock & Roll ain’t noise pollution. Rock & Roll ain’t gonna die.” And for so many bands, truer words have never been spoken. Take The Doors. Born in the California of the sixties when political tensions were heating up and the youth were on the borderline of getting angry and getting […]

It has been a hell of a year for J. Roddy Walston and The Business. Since their breakout record Essential Tremors arrived in 2013, they’ve amassed a major following, landed a beer commercial and played countless sold out shows. Not to mention an appearance at the prestigious Newport Folk Festival. It’s safe to say, these […]

[rating=5.00] A lot has changed in the last 20 years — looking back on it now, the 90’s feel almost quaint. It was a time when the internet was a novelty (a fad, they said, on par with the HAM radio phase of the 70’s), the economy was booming, a robust middle class served as […]

David Bowie has premiered the music video for ‘Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)’, one of two new songs included in his upcoming career-spanning compilation album, ‘Nothing Has Changed’, Filmed in New York and London and directed by Tom Hingston and Jimmy King, the video features images of Bowie and lyrics from the song […]

[rating=9.00] Remember Underworld? Though they’ve been around (in various versions) since 1980, they are arguably most famous for 1995’s “Born Slippy,” a dance/rave anthem that featured prominently in the film Trainspotting. Indeed, it was through “Born Slippy” that this reviewer first really discovered Underworld. As for many others, though, “Born Slippy” was merely the first […]

The blistering drop in temperature in the Midwest on Tuesday night could not keep the Granada Theatre from filling in order to see New Politics, Bad Suns, and SomeKindaWonderful. The diverse crowd of University of Kansas hipsters to 14-year-old screaming teens (and subsequently, their mothers) all had one goal in mind: to see the three-man […]

Like the other books in the series, The Grateful Dead FAQ delves into its topic with earnest enthusiasm even though the history of this iconic band has already received significant attention from a variety of perspectives. And a subtitle as glib as it is pretentious, ‘All That’s Left to Know About the Greatest Jamband in […]

Recorded in her hometown of Atlanta, the Brooklyn/East ATL-based Sara Rachele’s debut, Diamond Street, rides out slow and dark as a jet-black 1960s Chrysler New Yorker. The live-to-tape LP—produced by Kristofer Sampson (B-52’s, Balkans, Coathangers)—was recorded in just two days, and captures the East Village nightlife of a young songwriter in what Glide previously called […]

Eric Johnson and Mike Stern put on a stellar show at Webster Hall in NYC on 11/8 at Webster Hall  as part of the Eclectic Guitars tour in support of their new album Eclectic. Photos by Vikas Nambiar  

The basement of a nineteenth century church might seem like an odd place for The Dismemberment Plan’s mini tour of the Northeast to wind up on a Friday night, but it was a match made in heaven. Even the wrought iron lined worn path and stone steps leading down to the performance space added to […]

The Southland’s biggest live music Halloween party took place Saturday and Sunday, November 1 and 2, moving this year to the Fairplex in Pomona. The Hard Day of The Dead is one of the largest EDM festivals in the country, featuring some of the biggest names in Electronic music playing on five stages over the […]

[rating=7.00] The power-pop, punk icons the Buzzcocks are back with their first album in over eight years titled The Way, showing that the band still possess the talent which saw them churn out some of the catchiest 70’s punk tunes. The two original members Pete Shelley and Steve Diggle split the songwriting, guitar playing and […]

Photos by Arthur VanRooy of the Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, TX on November 7-9, 2014. Check out our Best of Fun Fun Fun Fest RECAP!

[rating=8.00] A lot of people bag on Yoko on the bogus allegation that she broke up The Beatles. But Polly Samson is a rock ‘n’ roll wife far more deserving of your jeers for her role in transforming Pink Floyd into a big puddle of MOR goo that undercut the very fabric of the band’s […]

There are tons of festivals in Austin, but none provide a better glimpse at the culture of this town than Fun Fun Fun Fest. The lineup, which has always featured everything from death metal to gangster rap and dance music to name a few, is a cross-section of the well-honed tastes of music lovers in […]

NYC instrumental prog/rock foursome TAUK released their  brand new album “Collisions” this past summer an invigorating listen that builds upon its debut album Homunculus and its relentless tempos and dynamic sounds.  “I like to think of this album as an extension of Homunculus,” explains bassist Charlie Dolan. “We took some of our favorite parts of that album […]

moe. celebrates a quarter of a century on tour, rolling right into 2015 with a two-night stand in their hometown of Buffalo, NY. The Winter/Spring tour also includes intimate  3 show club dates in Boulder/Denver, New York and Chicago that are being offered in an exclusive, 3-show ticket package. Pre-sale tickets & 3-show ticket packages […]

[rating=7.00] Approaching Neil Young’s new album Storytone, it is well to keeping in mind the iconoclastic artist is no stranger to either strings (his eponymous solo album, Comes A Time) or horns (This Note’s For You). But Young’s either hedging his bets or simply being his unpredictable self by offering the new record in a […]