Archive: 2016

In the midst of multiple events celebrating their 40th Anniversary  as a band, New Jersey-based avant-pop pioneers the Feelies found time to record In Between their first new studio album in over 6 years. The album was produced by the group’s guitarists, Glenn Mercer and Bill Million with most of the recording done at Glenn’s home […]

Following yesterday’s Best Alternative Music Album GRAMMY Award nomination for The Hope Six Demolition Project (Vagrant), PJ HARVEY will embark on her most extensive North American headline tour in more than ten years. Featuring the 10-piece band that accompanied her on this year’s four sold out and critically lauded U.S. dates, PJ Harvey’s return to North America in […]

There’s something inexplicably authentic about Oklahoma’s Travis Linville, and it’s carried him from dive bars and classrooms to “The Tonight Show” and esteemed theaters and festivals across the globe. A gifted instrumentalist, Linville is known for his work as a sideman with Hayes Carll but moves to the front of the stage to release his new full […]

Caroline Reese’s upbringing is the kind of stuff you hear about in country songs. The young singer-songwriter grew up outside Reading, Pennsylvania, where the rust belt meets the Amish country. Her mom ran a horse farm and her dad sold antiques, and both of these facts inform the old-soul tendencies in her songs. She and […]

In the newest installment of Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle reviews Teens of Denial, the new album from Seattle-based rockers Car Seat Headrest, in his signature six-panel comic strip form. Click on the image for full resolution (best viewed on desktop): [youtube id=”s_a1hPwXiWw” width=”630″ height=”350″]

Moon Duo, the pair of Ripley Johnson (guitar) and Sanae Yamada (keyboards), are set to release their new album, Occult Architecture Vol. 1, on February 3rd via Sacred Bones. A psychedelic opus presented in two separate volumes, Occult Architecture is an intricately woven hymn to the invisible structures found in the cycle of seasons and […]

“Some nights it’s just a crush, and some night’s it’s bloodlust,” wrote Craig Finn in his band’s Separation Sunday classic “Stevie Nix.” Some nights it is also a full on party with a band who was on home soil playing to an insane crowd, visibly ecstatic to have a re-energized Hold Steady back celebrating their […]

Embarking on its 15th year, the Forecastle Festival will return in 2017 led LCD Soundsystem, Weezer, and Odesza. The three-day music celebration will take place July 14-16, 2017, at the award-winning Waterfront Park, situated on 85 acres of green space on the banks of the Ohio River framed by the skyline of downtown Louisville. Additional acts include Cage the Elephant, PJ Harvey, Run the Jewels, Mandolin Orange, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats, GRiZ, X Ambassadors, Vince Staples, NEEDTOBREATHE, Teddy Abrams […]

Thundercat will embark on an extensive live tour through the US and Europe in 2017, kicking off with two nights at The Independent in San Francisco. It marks the first headline North American tour for the virtuosic bassist / singer-songwriter since the fall of 2015, He will be joined on stage by longtime bandmates Dennis Hamm (keys) […]

Also, Transformers: The Last Knight releases first trailer.

Following a summer on the road with Steely Dan, Steve Winwood will be back in the U.S. this spring for a U.S. solo tour that includes dates across the Southeast and East Coast. The legendary white soulful voice kicks off the spring tour April 20 in Westbury, N.Y. The last stop of the outing is May 10 in Nashville. […]

Tedeschi Trucks Band closed their sold-out three night run at Boston’s Orpheum Theatre on Saturday, December 3rd with two sets of tried and true American Rock ‘n’ Roll that established them as the official torchbearer of the genre. While plenty of acts ranging from Arcade Fire and Wilco to The Black Keys and My Morning […]

Kyle Hollingsworth’s Hoppy Holidays – A Benefit for Conscious Alliance featuring JJ Grey & Mofro and Kyle Hollingsworth Band took place December 3rd at the Fillmore in Denver, CO. Photos by Todd Radunsky.  

It may come as a surprise that the band keeping the Afrobeat torch burning hail from none other than the Lone Star State. Comprised of members of notable Austin acts like Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears, The Calm Blue Sea, Cougar, Ocote Soul Sounds, and the Echocentrics among others, the 10-piece collective known as Hard […]

It’s about time Chris Rock has taken his hilarious self on the road in the form of a comedy tour. Rock will embark on his first full-scale world tour in nine years when the comedian hits the road on his Total Blackout stand-up tour in 2017. The dates kick off February 14th in Durham, NC […]

In the case of The Walking Dead, “not that great” is often a breath of fresh air.

On Hurray for the Riff Raff’s new album ‘The Navigator’ (March 10/ATO Records), Alynda Segarra tells an interwoven, cinematic story of a wandering soul at a crossroads of identity and ancestral weight. It finds a street kid named Navita traversing a perpetually burning city in search of herself. ‘The Navigator’ is a thrilling call to […]

A lineup featuring some of rock’s biggest artists has been announced for the fifth annual Monster Energy Fort Rock, Saturday, April 29 & Sunday, April 30, 2017 at JetBlue Park in Fort Myers, Florida. South Florida’s Biggest Rock Festival will be led by Def Leppard (Saturday headliner), Soundgarden (Sunday headliner), and A Perfect Circle, and […]

Despite leaving a few questions for next season (and beyond) Westworld wrapped up their inaugural season as beautifully as it existed.