Archive: 2016

Also, Luke Cage is officially getting a second season.

Mogwai wil play their new album Atomic in North America for the first time!nstructed entirely of archive film, Atomic is an impressionistic kaleidoscope of the horrors of our nuclear times – protest marches, Cold War sabre-rattling, Chernobyl and Fukishima – but also the sublime beauty of the atomic world, and how x-rays and MRI scans have improved […]

The money is always good for band reunions and Guns N’ Roses and their massively successful Not In This Lifetime Tour continue to show no signs of slowing down as the legendary band storms into 2017 with more than 30 stadium shows lined up across Europe and North America. Lets only hope this results in a new album featuring Axl, Slash […]

The year 2016 and the words “best” might seem ironic considering all the loses we suffered in the past 365 days. Despite the death of David Bowie, we got one of his all time best albums with Blackstar but can the loss of Prince, Lemmy, Leonard Cohen and be even remotely compromised by fantastic new […]

For the band Extreme, they have always been about making rock & roll multidimensional, never sticking to the same formula for every song. To them, rock & roll is a blank canvas and there are a million colors just waiting to be splashed upon it. So when a bare bones harmonic ballad leapt to the […]

Jimmy Lumpkin grew up in Georgia but calls Mobile, Alabama home these days. After all, it is this place that informs nearly everything about the music created by Lumpkin and his band the Revival. Their sound is an amalgamation of the state’s rich musical history, taking inspiration from soul, blues, and rock and roll alike. […]

Until their song “Far From Any Road” was featured as the theme for the first season of HBO’s True Detective, the Handsome Family were something of a secret. Dabbling in the realm of what some have called gothic Americana, the husband and wife duo of Brett and Rennie Sparks have always been criminally underrated. After […]

Tedeschi-Trucks Band kicked off a 3-night run at Boston’s Orpheum Theater on Thursday, December 1st with a handful of well-chosen covers and a special guest appearance from  Jorma Kaukonen. Photos by Rich Gastwirt.

Newcomer Kika Magalhaes discusses the shock of success and the experience of making The Eyes of My Mother

Heartbreaking, breathtaking, and affirming, Jackie explores the myths and realities of Jackie Kennedy’s personal grief.

An artful exploration of terror, The Eyes of My Mother is as beautiful as it is haunting.

Twin City hip hop legends united at First Avenue on 11/29/16 as Atmosphere, Brother Ali, Dem Atlas, Plain Ole Bill and Last Word laid it down for real. Photos by Billy Briggs.

[rating=9.00] The Real Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert is not an entry in The Bootleg Series of  Bob Dylan’s, but it achieves the same effect as the most significant releases in that archive project. That is, it definitively clarifies one of the pivotal points in the 2016 Nobel Laureate’s long career. This two-CD set is […]

Dead & Company has announced their 2017 summer tour. Kicking off on Saturday, May 27 in Las Vegas, the celebrated group’s cross-country run will include a return to many iconic venues such as Fenway Park, Folsom Field and Citi Field, while also adding new venues including Los Angeles’ historic Hollywood Bowl and Chicago’s Wrigley Field […]

Seriously, Jyn Erso looks more and more badass everytime we see her.

Treefort Music Fest is an annual music and arts festival featuring nearly 400 bands plus film, art, comedy, yoga, and more across multiple venues in downtown Boise in March. Conceived in 2012 as an extension of the momentum in the Boise music scene and art scene at large, the festival provides the opportunity for Boise to […]

In an age when horror has become cookie cutter and safe, Nicolas Pesce is here to break the molds.