Archive: 2016

Rooster Teeth’s first feature, Lazer Team. is either hilariously amazing or terribly boring, depending on what you anticipate from it.

Its existence having been revealed to the world via a one-two punch of an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and exclusive profile in The New York Times, it can now be announced that Iggy Pop’s new album Post Pop Depression (Rekords Rekords/Loma Vista/Caroline International) will be supported by a very limited run of one-time-only live performances in […]

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band have rescheduled their Madison Square Garden concert, postponed Sunday due to a blizzard in New York. The River Tour also will extend its U.S. run with 14 new shows, and Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will play May 19 in Portugal to headline the first night […]

[rating=8.00] Let’s be honest with ourselves: every Bloc Party album that gets release, we secretly hope will be as tremendous as the band’s 2005 debut album, Silent Alarm. For a fan to wish for this is natural, as we find comfort in the familiar, but it is also selfish and unfair. While Bloc Party’s fifth […]

Vancouver artist Jett Pace is Old Man Canyon, and on his newest album Delirium, which just dropped on January 15th, Pace somehow manages to channel an array of acts that fall within the realm of “psych rock” while simultaneously building a sound that is entirely his own. This is trippy stuff, and one can’t help but […]

Los Angeles native Cassandra Violet leads a folkpop band infused with infectious hooks, drums, loops and layered vocals. The singer-songwriter has garnered attention after touring on the West Coast and catching the ears of excited listeners at local venues like the Echo, the Bootleg, the Hotel Café, plus generating a buzz with LA publications like […]

Ratatat played Philadelphia’s Electric Factory on 1/24/16 and brought their distinct brand of “rocktronica” to end the weekend. Photos by Cathy Poulton      

Dan Boeckner (Wolf Parade, Handsome Furs, Divine Fits) has announced the debut album for his band Operators, titled Blue Wave, out worldwide April 1st on Last Gang Records. Formed in 2013, the band features Boeckner on vocals, guitar, and synths and is joined by New Bomb Turks and Divine Fits drummer Sam Brown and electro-wiz […]

Warren Haynes has announced new Ashes & Dust World Tour dates that were previously postponed last Fall. See below for full list of shows. Once again, Warren will be backed by the world-class Ashes & Dust Band, consisting of progressive bluegrass trio Chessboxer and acclaimed drummer Jeff Sipe. Pre-sale tickets will be available Wednesday, January 27, […]

Critically acclaimed rock bands Brand New and Modest Mouse have announced plans for a co-headlining tour throughout the U.S. this summer. The 24-date trek kicks off June 28 in Magna, UT, and stops at iconic venues such as Red Rocks Amphitheater (Morrison, CO; June 29), Madison Square Garden (New York;July 14), The Forum (Los Angeles; July 27) and the Greek Theater (Berkeley, CA; July 29) before wrapping July 30 in Seattle. Presale tickets are […]

The Arcs have announced a series of dates around their Coachella appearances that they are pleased to call the West Coast Caravan. The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach’s band are supporting their  2015 album Yours, Dreamily. The tour includes the band’s stop at Coachella. Check out their full itinerary below. The Arcs were recently featured on NPR’s “Tiny Desk Concert” (below) series. […]

In 1978, The Cars had a Top 40 hit with the band’s very first single, “Just What I Needed.” That streak continued over the next 10 years, as the band revisited the Top 40 a dozen more times with radio hits “Let’s Go” and “Shake It Up” along with iconic videos like “Magic” and “You […]

Railroad Earth came through Austin on a chilly Saturday with the sole purpose of using their music to bring smiles to the faces of those who had gathered at Stubb’s for their show. Nearly three hours of music over the course of two sets would find the jamgrass band successful in stirring up both smiles […]

Back in May of last year a young singer-songwriter from West Virginia by the name of Christian Lopez quietly released his first full length studio album, Onward (Blaster Records). The album was produced by Dave Cobb, the Nashville mastermind producer known these days for working with troubadours like Jason Isbell and Sturgill Simpson. Only 20 years old, Lopez […]

The word prolific barely begins to describe Karsh Kale’s storied career. The British-born, New York City-raised artist of Indian heritage has spent the last two decades zigzagging the world as a producer, multi-instrumentalist, tabla player, drummer, film composer, DJ, collaborator, and solo artist. The culmination of his planetary library can be heard on his fifth studio album for […]

[rating=7.00] Tortoise begin The Catastrophist auspiciously, much like their long experimental career— introducing us to synth keys that belong in the 8-bit realm medium. It eventually teeters off into normal territory, at least considered for their world. Where their earlier works are more revered because of their playfulness, ambition with an aura of sparseness, The […]

[rating=6.00] Nineties nostalgia seems to be at an all time high, which may be what draws listeners to the new record Here’s to Almost from the Virginia-based trio Feral Conservatives. But it’s the touch of sweetness they bring to their folky garage rock that will keep the attention. On the opening track “Round the Corner”, […]

DeVotchKa has a fascinating story that, in many ways, makes them the perfect band to play with a symphony. Formed in Colorado, they got their start as a backing band for burlesque shows (including those of former Marilyn Manson girlfriend Dita Von Teese), and they gained a broader following as their music was noticed and […]