Archive: 2017

Following their long tradition of projects based on narrative themes, The Residents are pleased to announce the release of The Ghost of Hope, a historically accurate album based on train wrecks from the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. After discovering a series of vintage news articles highlighting the dangers of train travel in the […]

Plus, our first glimpse at Ocean’s 8 and Split unites moviegoers for another week.

BNQT, a new indie super group conceived and led by Eric Pulido of Midlake, have announced the release of their debut album ‘Volume 1’ on April 28 via Dualtone, and Entertainment One company. The introductory set includes ten new, original songs and features five vocalists – Ben Bridwell of Band of Horses, Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand, […]

Classic hard rock fans will have something to look forward to this summer when Deep Purple and Alice Cooper, joined by special guest, The Edgar Winter Band, visit 19 cities across America this summer on an epic rock tour, announced today. Produced by Live Nation, the tour will also serve as the Long Goodbye Tour […]

Taking some time for his own compositions before leading another summer with Dead and Company, John Mayer is launching his Search for Everything World Tour on Friday, March 31 in Albany, NY at the Times Union Center. This tour marks the first solo trek for Mayer since 2014 and will be sweeping through arenas across North America and Europe in […]

Michael Kiwanuka is pleased (and relieved) to announce that he’ll be rescheduling his cancelled North American Tour from December of 2016. Kiwanuka who was suffering from vocal chord damage and tonsillitis has been cleared to play shows again. The tour begins May 18 at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles and includes Festival stops at Governors Ball and […]

[rating=8.00] Rock and roll is best when any fucks to give are tossed out the window in favor of a groovy, carefree party. Austin musician John Wesley Coleman III has always showed a fierce determination to give no fucks at the core of his approach to music. This is a good thing and, most of […]

Last night Warren Haynes, Don Was, Michael McDonald and company turned Boston’s Orpheum Theatre, into a working, full blown time machine; teleporting the audience back to November 26, 1976. This  date of course was one of rock n’ roll’s most magical, legendary nights when at the pinnacle of their ability and at the peak of […]

[rating=8.00] Furnace is Dave Simonett’s sophomore effort under the monicker he adapted after putting Trampled By Turtles, the gig he works by day, at least temporarily on hold. Not surprisingly then, Dead Man Winter sounds very little like his other ensemble, save the superb quality of the songwriting. Even so, Simonett admits that the new […]