Archive: 2015

If you can count on The Walking Dead for anything, it’s to be consistently inconsistent.

Is Ash vs. Evil Dead paving the way for a Pablo takeover?

Editors announce their first US shows in six years, with a limited run of five dates across February & March 2016. The band, whose sell out UK tour reiterated their continued presence as one of the UK’s biggest and most vital musical forces, continue their extensive live work in support of their new album In […]

Andrew Bird has announced a 2016 world tour. Kicking off with solo dates that include 4 sold-out Chicago shows at 4th Presbyterian Church for his now annual Gezelligheid shows (started in 2009), and a Crosslinx Festival appearance with a supergroup comprised of Bird, Glenn Kotche and Neil Finn, the bulk of the tour will begin […]

[rating=8.00] Never mind that Squeeze has become the branding for any effort involving the band’s two principals, Chris Difford and Glen Tilbrook, or that the rest of the group consists mainly of hired hands. And forget the fact that since their original demise in the ‘80s — and their second dissolution in the late ‘90s […]

Animal Collective have announced the release of their eleventh full-length album, Painting With. The album will be out globally on February 19 via Domino. Today, the band shared the first single ‘FloriDada‘. [youtube id=”Iw2ssNnA_Es” width=”630″ height=”350″] For fifteen years Animal Collective has been rewriting the musical map, their line-up and aesthetic shifting with each astonishing release as they continue […]

When guitar player Jeremy Brown passed away in March, Scott Weiland was left not only sad about his friend’s untimely death but in a unique quandary: a new album with his band the Wildabouts was being released and a tour was right around the corner. He needed someone to step in almost immediately, someone who […]

The Gathering of the Vibes Music Festival in Bridgeport, CDT is taking a one-year hiatus. Founder Ken Hayes posted a note on the festival’s site Friday saying he has decided not to pursue holding a festival in 2016. He also said the festival will return and the hiatus is simply a “pause, an opportunity for […]

In a month-long tour that started back East where the Grateful Dead 50th anniversary celebrations did not reach this past summer, Dead & Company dropped their last proper shows of a coast spanning fall tour last night in fabulous Las Vegas. The band has four more official shows left to play in the Golden State […]

Part of a solo performance by Colin Hay, best known as the front man, vocalist, and guitarist for the Australian, early 80s, Grammy-winning New Wave/Rock/Raggae band Men at Work brought a performance with solo compositions and well worn Men at Work classics. Photos by Marc Lacatell

Captain America: Civil War will probably be awesome. Its trailer, however, was anything but.

Are you watching Fargo? You really, really ought to be.

We never quite fell under Brooklyn’s spell.

Victor Frankenstein is by no means terrible, but that doesn’t mean it’s particularly good either.

Sliding off the crimson and electric blue slipcase from the hardcover book in which the Beatles 1+ discs and book are enclosed is testament in itself to the scrupulous attention afforded the work of these cultural icons. But taking just a cursory look beyond the matching suits and ties that replaced their equally stylized black […]

Back in October The Bottle Rockets released a brand new album called South Broadway Athletic Club (Check out our REVIEW) on Bloodshot Records. One of the more light-hearted, fun songs on the album is “Dog”. The simple tune is a loving tribute to man’s best friend, and earlier this week the band premiered a new video […]

[rating=6.00] Bay Area band Hot Buttered Rum’s new EP The Kite and the Key was recorded at Tiny Telephone Studios in San Francisco, CA. It is the first in a series of three consecutive EP’s that Hot Buttered Rum intends to release. The band reached out to Tim Carbone of New Jersey-based bluegrass band Railroad […]

Grammy Award winning, platinum-selling hip-hop trio Naughty By Nature are back in full force, announcing their 25th Anniversary Tour that is set to hit 26 major cities across the U.S. in 2016! After kicking off the international leg of the tour earlier this month, the group will return to the states on January 27th kicking off in Greensboro, NC. When asked about celebrating 25 years […]