Archive: 2017

[rating=8.00] Sarah Shook is not concerned with sounding pretty for you. But that’s what makes her music so damn beautiful. On her new record Sidelong, Shook and her band the Disarmers have created a throwback punk-country love letter to drinking. Shook has a rough-around-the-edges twang with a slight quiver that shows itself in unexpected places. […]

Compared to last week’s three episode onslaught, this week gave viewers a sliver of hope before the coming storm.

Alive with the Dead: A Fly on the Wall with a Camera, a compendium of Grateful Dead photos and stories from Susana Millman was recently released. This spectacular book represents 25 years of Millman’s work with the Grateful Dead. In conjunction with Glide, Millman has provided her thoughts on some of her favorite photos from the […]

Veteran musician Kim Rancourt has led bands and been on a clutch of records, but plum plum is the first one to be released under his own name. The album was produced by Don Fleming, known for his work with the Dictators NYC, Teenage Fanclub and Nancy Sinatra, and features an all-star band that includes […]

Run Skeleton Run, David Childers’ sixth solo album (Ramseur Records, March 5th), starts off with the title track, a raucous warning to a discontented skeleton that refuses to rest in peace, and it ends with “Goodbye to Growing Old,” a declaration of his acceptance of the passage of years. In between, Childers sings about the […]

[rating=9.00] Robyn Hitchcock is, by most people’s definition, a curious fellow. His random musings about life and happenstance make both his music and his persona as charming as they are challenging. A wordsmith like no other, his wry observations find him amusing and thoughtful all at the same time, the result of an unrestrained wit […]

In perhaps the most poetically tragic ending to a musical career – Col. Bruce Hampton, died onstage towards the end of his 70th Birthday Gala at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta. For a musician who influenced and was beloved by so many, it was almost fitting his end came on stage surround by his closest friends. […]

Details for the fifth annual Cruise To The Edge excursion — prog-rock’s largest festival at sea hosted by classic rock icons YES — has been announced. Featuring some of the world’s greatest prog-rock musical artists, the 5-night cruise out of Tampa, FL next February 3-8, will return aboard Royal Caribbean’s award-winning Brilliance Of The Seas, visiting two […]

The Avalanches will kick off their first North American live tour on June 3 at Brooklyn Bowl. The show is part of the Governors Ball After Dark series. The band will perform at the Governors Ball festival the following day, June 4. The headline run includes shows at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC (June 5), […]