Bronze Radio Return Brings East Coast Roots Soul on Tour (INTERVIEW/VIDEO EXCLUSIVE)
Bronze Radio Return have just kicked off their U.S. tour in support of their acclaimed new album Light Me Up. The Connecticut based band’s tour includes stops in , Austin, Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles (tour dates below). The roots rockers offer a sound pretty much foreign to bands originating out of the New England […]
SONG PREMIERE: K I M O C K Performs New Track “Mother’s Song” Live at Sweetwater
When guitar virtuoso Steve Kimock started putting together ideas for his new album, he wanted to do something that would be far removed from his previous work. Working with his son, drummer, composer and multi-instrumentalist John Morgan Kimock, the guitar player set out to create a piece of work that was less reflective of his […]
It’s Business Time – Flight of the Conchords Announce 2016 Summer Tour
Grammy Award-winning folk comedy duo Flight of the Conchords (aka Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie) will return to the U.S. this summer. The “Flight of the Conchords sing Flight of the Conchords Tour,” is their first since co-headlining 2014’s “Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Tour.” Jemaine and Bret have new material in the works, which they’ll showcase exclusively […]
Uli Jon Roth Takes Listeners Upon ‘The Ultimate Guitar Experience’ (INTERVIEW)
About forty years ago, a German guitar player named Uli Jon Roth was in a band called the Scorpions. They had released an album titled Virgin Killer and were on the heels of releasing their follow-up, Taken By Force. But Roth was already venturing down a different path musically than his band0mates. His songs were […]
BUHU Offer Rambunctious Rhythms and Quirky Constructs on ‘Relationshapes’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
[rating=6.00] You wouldn’t expect to find a band like BUHU hailing from Austin Texas, a place where plaintive melodies and laid-back trappings are apparent as well as implied. So to find this trio offering up their rambunctious rhythms and quirky constructs on Relationshapes seems wholly out of sync with the place they currently call home. […]
Attending South By Southwest (SXSW)? Here Are 10 Tips For Doing It Like a Local
Well, it’s that time again, the time of year some of us Austinites cherish and others loathe so deeply that they simply leave town. Yup, South By Southwest (SXSW) is upon us and there’s nothing you can do about it. For many residents of Austin, the week of SXSW inspires the kind of dread that […]
Animal Collective’s ‘Painting With’ Baffles The Mind (ALBUM REVIEW)
[rating=4.00] It’s hard to imagine a band more divisive than Animal Collective, a wonky group of guys who straddle the line between stunt and seriousness. But no matter what you think of them, they really don’t sound like anyone else, and even if the way they do sound is not for you, it is difficult […]
Wild Nothing Craft Confident Pop On ‘Life of Pause’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
[rating=7.00] Washed out is such a common aesthetic these days, it has practically become its own genre, and within that genre Wild Nothing have always stood out. With their latest record Life of Pause, they get a little more specific, though, keeping what was beautiful about their sound and giving it some new life and […]
The Keller Williams KWahtro Along With Cabinet Hit A Groove In Philly (SHOW REVIEW)
The temperatures outside hit the single but things were about to heat up inside the Theater Of Living Arts on February 13th. On the docket at the South Street was acoustic guitar wielding Keller Williams with his brand new project KWahtro along with the bluegrass group Cabinet. “Hey folks how you doing here in Philadelphia […]