Archive: 2017

[rating-7.00] Burlington, Vermont’s own Henry Jamison recounts a story in song, almost a rite of passage, during his first full-length LP The Wilds. The intimate, largely acoustic setting of this record aids in turning universal, not to mention accessible, his first-person experience(s) and healthily-detached observations. The literary detail Jamison applies to lyrics like those of […]

[rating=9.00] Nearly forty years after their initial incarnation, Squeeze remains the band that just can’t quit. Well, almost. After a series of break-ups and subsequent reunions that waylaid them for nearly a dozen years, founders, composers and chief mainstays Chris Difford and Glen Tilbrook still find an ideal combination needed to resurrect their sunny sound […]

Brian Fallon has unveiled the first official single, “Forget Me Not,” (below) from his much-anticipated new solo album, Sleepwalkers, due out February 9, 2018 via Island Records. “I was thinking how every song doesn’t have to be so serious,” Fallon says. “It can just be fun. It can just be a song that I would […]

Swedish duo First Aid Kit will release their highly anticipated album Ruins on January 19. Produced by Tucker Martine (My Morning Jacket, Laura Veirs), the album was recorded in Portland, OR where the duo collaborated with amazing musicians — REM’s Peter Buck, Wilco’s Glenn Kotche, and Midlake’s McKenzie Smith. Ruins is available for pre-order now and includes the lead single “It’s A Shame”as well […]

Tori Amos opened her 2017 U.S. tour at St. Paul’s O’Shaughnessy Auditorium on 10/24/17. The tour is in support of her new LP Native Invader. Photos by Billy Briggs.

Chris Stapleton couldn’t get through so many years of cutting his teeth writing hit songs for others and performing with his old bluegrass band the Steeldrivers without learning a thing or two about showmanship. That was on full display at Austin360 Amphitheatre Thursday, October 26th, where Stapleton played his second Austin date of the week. […]

Ripping and bashing through a sixteen song set that ignited a sweaty punk party, Wavves had made their way to Austin once again, this time laying waste to Emo’s on a Wednesday, October 25th. The SoCal four-piece is a paradox, comprised of the slovenly aesthetic of a hopeless noise garage band, mixed with the military-like […]

Gov’t Mule are on a European tour and on October 26th they hit Manchester, England for a a sold out show at the O2 Ritz. Mule rocked the audience with new songs from their album Revolution Come Revolution Go and also paid tribute recently departed rock and roll legends Tom Petty and Fats Domino

Austin Post aka Post Malone burst onto the pop music scene with a little Soundcloud single titled “White Iverson” that shook up the music world. Here’s a kid from the Dallas-Fort Worth with braids, a grill, bars, and a background in country guitar that blew up out of nowhere via the universal mixtape haven that […]