Archive: 2017

Much like he slowly unfurls the guitar passages he plays, Steve Kimock collects his thoughts carefully, patiently and precisely when he talks. As a result, his account of the sequence of events leading up to the release of Satellite City, crystallizes slowly but surely as it reaches its conclusion. And that progression in turn clearly […]

One of the best thrills to come from the Internet music revolution is the ability to find extremely rare music with great ease. But even with such vast archives to draw from, quite a lot of great songs have gone undiscovered for nearly half a century, particularly in genres that historically lacked hifalutin arty pretense. […]

In the newest installment of Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle reviews Don’t Go Baby It’s Gonna Get Weird Without You, the new album from gritty alt-country outfit Porter and The Bluebonnet Rattlesnakes, in his signature six-panel comic strip form. The album was released approximately a year after the band’s front man Chris Porter was killed tragically in a car accident while on tour. Click […]

Love Rides A Dark Horse, and so does Gill Landry. After producing a handful of solid albums both as a solo artist and with Old Crow Medicine Show before leaving the group, Landry came out of nowhere with an album that sounds a lot different than anything else he’s produced. It’s a melancholy record that […]

To say that rock and roll is deeply imbedded in the history and culture of the Western world would be an over simplification to the extent of which music holds sway over us. Even though genres like hip-hop, many forms of electronica, and pop have dominated the airwaves the past two decades, they all find […]

[rating=6.00] It doesn’t require a great voice like Joan Osborne’s to do justice to Bob Dylan’s songs. But it does call for a clear vision in choosing the material as well as an equally lucid concept of how to arrange and play it. Songs of Bob Dylan is a mixed bag precisely because the combination […]

[rating=8.00] Those familiar with Lynn Drury’s music would say, “It’s about time.”Following eight regional releases, the singer-songwriter, who has lived in New Orleans for the past decade, has launched Rise of the Fall, her genre-defying national release. There’s plenty of ingredients in Drury’s gumbo: country, folk, rock, pop, and classic New Orleans R&B. Hence, she […]

Chris Stapleton, Queens of the Stone Age and The Avett Brothers have been confirmed to headline the inaugural Innings Festival, set to take place March 23-25, 2018 at Tempe Beach Park & Arts Park in Tempe, AZ.  The lineup also includes Counting Crows, Young the Giant, The Head and the Heart, The Decemberists, Dispatch, Cold War Kids, […]

Tom Waits is set to release this year, newly remastered versions of each of his acclaimed albums in the Anti- catalog. In addition, the album Real Gone has been fully remixed and individual releases of each of the 3 discs of Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards will be available early 2018. Remastering significantly improves the […]

On October 27, Dopapod will release their fifth studio album, MEGAGEM, simultaneously their most focused and thematically ambitious affair to date. The release of MEGAGEM will coincide with a cross-country tour for Dopapod, spreading their blisteringly progressive, good-time grooves and ending with a New Year’s Eve show in Boston, where they started out. Then, the band will take a year off to […]