Archive: 2015

Punk band Desaparecidos will release their first new album in 13 years, Payola, on June 23. The first new song from the album “City on the Hill” can be heard below. Formed in 2001 in Omaha, Nebraska, Desaparecidos released one album, Read Music / Speak Spanish in 2002 on Saddle Creek Records. Though the band […]

LA rock quartet Dawes’ highly anticipated new album, All Your Favorite Bands, will be released on June 2 on their own HUB Records. Produced by David Rawlings at Woodland Sound Studios in Nashville, TN, this is the band’s fourth album and second on their own label. The album includes nine bracing new original recordings written […]

Ian Anderson celebrates the life and times of the English Agricultural inventor, Jethro Tull, with the announcement of a new series of concert tours beginning September 2015. The shows tell the story of the original Jethro Tull’s life, reimagined as if in the near future and illustrated with Anderson’s best-known songs from the rock band […]

Todd Rundgren has had one of those eclectic careers that keeps your name on the musical radar even when you’re sitting at home twiddling your thumbs … which is not something Rundgren does very often. He is full of gears and switches and nobs that keep his brain humming and his body synchronizing out the […]

[rating=6.00] 28-year old South Carolina native, Chaz Bundick is a musician who likes to keep on the move. Over both his four-album career with Toro y Moi and his side projects, Les Sins and Sides of Chaz, Bundick has embraced an eclectic range of styles: funk, R&B, and psych-pop liberally mingling amongst the funky coolness […]

It only takes one listen to the new record Cosmetics from ‘super group’ Diamond Rugs to be won over by their cheeky charm. Which is why it was a bit of a disappointment to catch them at the start of their current tour on a recent Friday night at Bowery Ballroom. Unpracticed and disengaged, it […]

Excuse the cliché, but if there is one act right now whose music can truly be considered a gumbo of styles, it’s the New Orleans Suspects. Collectively the members of this NOLA supergroup have played with the likes of James Brown, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, The Neville Brothers and the Radiators among others, and the […]

As a greater drunk than I once opined, “time is a flat circle.” Nowhere is this idea—the idea that history is in a constant state of repeating itself—more apparent than in the world of pop culture. As the wheel of pop culture turns, the popular becomes passé and fades from memory, until such a time […]

Three weeks since surprising the world with epic track “Let It Happen” via their website, Tame Impala have today unveiled their first official single “‘Cause I’m A Man.” “Cause I’m A Man” will be released Tuesday April 7 through Interscope. Listen to it here: [youtube id=”EyEB2AEqHxc” width=”630″ height=”350″] “‘Cause I’m A Man” is also confirmed to appear on Tame […]

[rating=7.00] Composed of multi-instrumentalists Brian Beken, Dennis Ludiker, Noah Jeffries and Jesse Dalton, Austin-based jammers MilkDrive have been nourishing their local bluegrass scene for a little while now. The group is known for swapping instruments and laying down hot rhythms with tight vocal harmonies. Beken, Ludiker and Jeffries met while competing in fiddle contests in […]

[rating=8.00] The eponymous debut of Tomás Pagán Motta is a feat of honest writing, earnest singing and beefy but subtle instrumental arrangements. The eight tracks are tight, yet spacey; poignant and pronounced, yet ethereal and mysterious. With this album, Motta has consciously tackled the idiom of progressive folk head-on, displaying an adept knowledge of the […]

[rating=9.00] Joe Bonamassa has rightfully earned the title as one of this generation’s greatest blues singers and guitar players. Bonamassa’s music career began as a child guitar prodigy when at 12 years old he opened for blues legend, B. B. King in 1989. Since then he has released over 15 solo and live albums with […]

Hold the internet everyone, the rumors are true. Eight men out… of the 1990s. Maybe something new coming from the Mr. Show gang in the new year? #MrShow pic.twitter.com/gBy8CQ49nv — Paul F. Tompkins (@PFTompkins) December 31, 2014 Bob Odenkirk and David Cross are back, collaborating on a new sketch comedy show that has just been […]

The Newport Folk Festival being held July 24th through July 26th in Newport, RI has just announced its lineup. Although the festival headliners havent been announced yet big names include Brandi Carlile, Calexico, The Lone Bellow Courtney Barnett, Sturgill Simpson, Leon Bridges, Shakey Graves, Bahamas, Laura Marling, and J Mascis. Other artists of interest include […]

Earlier today, The National announced that viewers who rent or buy their critically acclaimed documentary film “Mistaken For Strangers” via the digital distributor VHX, will receive a free download of the never before released song “Sunshine on My Back”. The track features the vocals of Sharon Van Etten and was recorded in 2012 at the same […]

Longtime friends Ben Bridwell of Band of Horses and Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam take great pride in announcing the completion of their first ever collaborative album, Sing Into My Mouth. Scheduled for a joint release this summer (exact date TBD) on Beam’s Black Cricket and Bridwell’s Brown Records via Caroline, Sing Into My Mouth […]

Following years of work as a sideman for musical greats including David Bowie, Radiohead, St. Vincent, Elton John, The National, Grizzly Bear, Sufjan Stevens, Rufus Wainwright’s band, Alberta Cross and playing as a member of Polyphonic Spree, Louis Schwadron is now focusing his energy on solo project, Sky White Tiger. Schwadron released his debut album […]

“We’re growing up. We’re growing up.” Words uttered on the studio version of British punk rockers Palma Violets’ song “Last of the Summer Wine” off the band’s debut CD 180, but also perhaps a bit of foreshadowing of the group’s maturity leading into the release of their much anticipated sophomore album Danger in the Club […]

Photos of Torche & Nothing and Wrong at St Vitus, Brooklyn, NY on 3/26/2015. Torche, the self proclaimed players of loudest and heaviest hard rock on the planet from Miami,FL, layed to a sold out crowd at the St Vitus bar in Brooklyn, NY on Mar 26. They’re on tour promoting their latest release, Restarter […]

Comedy legend Bill Hicks left an indelible mark on the world of stand up. Often cited by comedy aficionados in the same breath as George Carlin and Richard Pryor, Hicks rose quickly to become one of the foremost voices in comedy before he tragically died from pancreatic cancer in 1994 at the age of 32. […]