Archive: 2015

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has officially announced next year’s inductees: Cheap Trick, Chicago, Deep Purple, N.W.A and Steve Miller will all join the class of 2016. They will be inducted April 8th during a ceremony at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, with tickets on sale to the public in February. HBO will broadcast the […]

Rhymesayers, in conjunction with First Avenue and Target Center brought ogether twenty years of music and artists for a one-night only performance at the Target Center, downtown Minneapolis, MN. The evening included special performances by (in alphabetical order): Abstract Rude, Aesop Rock, Atmosphere, Battlecats, BK One, Blueprint, Boom Bap Project, Brother Ali, deM atlaS, Dilated Peoples, DJ Abilities, Evidence, Felt, […]

Most music publications have just finished wrapping up 2015 with their year-end “best of” lists. This doesn’t mean we can’t be thinking about next year, and many of us already are since the advances for 2016 releases are already pouring in. I can pretty much promise that one of the standout releases of 2016 will […]

Photo by Sonia Child. Melbourne band The Glorious are excited about their upcoming album Falcon, which will be released by The MuseBox on January 8th. Produced by Julian Mendelsohn (Belle and Sebastian, Paul McCartney), the album is filled with The Glorious’ trademark haunting, vividly rendered melodies and emotionally immediate songs penned by lead vocalist/co-founder David Mather. Mather’s […]

Georgia’s self-proclaimed “Glamericana” band Tedo Stone have a new album out called Marshes. In the newest installment of Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle reviews the album in his six-panel comic book form. Click on the image for full resolution:  

The Devil Makes Three, the three piece string-band consisting of Pete Bernhard, Cooper McBean and Lucia Turino, have spent the better part of ten years wowing crowds and gaining fans at their exuberant live shows, one by one from the small house parties in Santa Cruz, CA where they started to huge festivals in the […]

Marco Benevento has announced the first leg of tour dates supporting his forthcoming studio album, The Story of Fred Short, due April 2016 on RPF.  The eight night run begins March 31 in San Diego followed by shows stretching up the West Coast before finishing in Seattle. He’ll then head back to the East Coast for three additional dates […]

Toronto band Sultans of String have a worldly sound, but it doesn’t seem appropriate to classify it as world music. Since forming eight years ago the group has been fusing cultures and genres from around the world to create music that sounds entirely different than anything else out there. What links this diverse group of […]

No one can bring the house down quite like Devon Allman. With his soaring guitar licks, unique vocals that straddle the border between blues, rock and country, songs that touch upon the pulse of zen positivity and real deal life and love situations, Allman can rock hard, rouse up a crowd and become your best […]

On December 11th, legendary guitar hero Leslie West played an intimate club show at Daryl’s House in Pawling, New York to support his new album, Soundcheck. Before playing a single note, West warned his audience that he was suffering from a brutal cold, but assured them that he was going to ‘’give it his all.” […]

[rating=6.00] Jerry Joseph has gone unheralded far too long as a true hero of the heartland, even though his work, both solo and in cahoots with his sometimes band Jackmorons and various earlier ensembles, has produced an impressive body of work, some thirty albums in all, that have spanned the greater part of the past […]

While the Drive-By Truckers have had a critically acclaimed 2015 they are already looking forward to 2016 with the exciting announcement of new spring tour dates (purchase HERE) and plans to release a new studio record. Back in July lead singer/songwriter Patterson Hood stirred up lively discussion with an op-ed he wrote for the New York Times discussing the meaning […]

Following Titus Andronicus’ 3xLP release The Most Lamentable Tragedy in July, the New Jersey rockers have revealed their plans for a string of American tour dates in the month of March. This time around thwill be joined by Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn, touring in support of 2015’s Faith In The Future. “If I have one regret about 2015, it is that I […]

There aren’t many bands that have their lead singer as an opening act, but Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox’s side project Atlas Sound has been doing this all tour. Cox, sporting a yellow raincoat and beige cap fitting for spring on an unusually warm night at Detroit’s Majestic Theatre on December 12th,  has a reputation of being […]

[rating=7.00] Cass McCombs has been busier than ever over the last decade and especially so within the past few years, releasing two albums in 2011 and a double LP in 2013. Needless to say, the sheer volume of songwriting that has gone into his impressive body of work from 2003 to 2014 has yielded a […]

[rating=7.00] Along with shortening his name, the former Israel Nash Gripka has also pared down his approach, placing due emphasis on ringing guitars and forlorn vocals to achieve maximum affect. Nash often comes across as a Neil Young soundalike, due not only to his mournful croon but also to a sense of harrowing desperation that […]

Suwannee Springfest celebrates 20 years of kicking off the spring festival season at the beautiful Spirit of Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, FL. It takes place March 17-20, 2016 and we are thrilled to announce that John Prine will be headlining the festival with his debut appearance at the event! A lot of return favorites from over the years will […]