Archive: 2017

“Let’s do this every year until we die!” This phrase tore from my lips during Gov’t Mule’s pitch perfect main stage closing set on the final night of the 2017 installment of the High Sierra Music Festival as San Francisco stealth superstar and uber-shredder Eric McFadden lashed us to the “Whipping Post” after exploring our […]

Van Morrison -is set to release a new 15-track album, due out September 22 (Exile/Caroline) titled Roll With The Punches. Van Morrison‘s 37th studio album–sees him simultaneously hand-picking a selection of rhythm and blues classics (by the likes of Bo Diddley, Mose Allison, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Lightnin’ Hopkins, among others) and recording a set of new self-written songs. […]

Richmond, Va.-based guitarist Thorp Jenson creates the kind of music that makes you want to spend all night in a Southern dive bar and wake up the next morning just to drive across the country—and his songs are at home in either scenario. Jenson’s self-produced debut, Odessa, encapsulates the free-spirited heartland-rock ethos of Tom Petty with […]

There isn’t a much better way to cap off the holiday week of July than a heavy metal show in a baseball stadium.   Their “WorldWired Tour” well underway, Metallica brought their well-seasoned roadshow to Atlanta’s Suntrust Park on Sunday night. Although they play shows on a regular basis, this is the first Metallica world tour […]

Anxiety about the precarious nature of reality is a recurring thread on Protomartyr’s fourth  full-length and Domino debut, Relatives In Descent (out September 29th). Though not a concept album, it presents twelve variations on a theme: the unknowable nature of truth, and the existential dread that often accompanies that unknowing. It’s no coincidence this missive comes to us at […]

Regina Spektor will bring A Very Special Solo Performance to the U.S. this fall. Tickets for most shows go on sale July 14, see below for a complete list of dates. Spektor recently completed a sold out spring tour across the United States in support of her critically acclaimed new release. In addition to the […]

Railroad Earth will release a new EP, Captain Nowhere, Friday, July 14 in conjunction with their performance at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Recorded late last year during short breaks from their arduous touring schedule, the six-song collection captures the group at their rock/country/bluegrass best. The band recently premiered the track “Adding My Voice” and can be heard […]

Phish bassist Mike Gordon has announced the release of his new album OGOGO, arriving September 15, 2017 via Megaplum / ATO Records. The first track from the record, “Steps,” was released today and can be heard below.. Produced by GRAMMY© Award-winning engineer Shawn Everett, OGOGO was recorded earlier this year in Boston and Los Angeles, and features Mike’s regular touring band: Scott […]

Tori Amos will be releasing her 15th studio album, Native Invader on 9/15 and as expected the celebrated singer-songwriter/pianist will be visiting U.S. cities in support. The tour runs from late October through early December, the jaunt lists stops in cities such as Chicago, Boston, New York, Nashville, Portland, Phoenix, and San Diego. Amos also has […]

Bluegrass festivals and summertime go together like coffee and pie. There’s just something magical about setting up camp, cracking a cold one, and watching acoustically picked instruments in the sunshine or under the stars. One of the best places to soak up this experience is at Northwest String Summit in North Plains, OR. Held at the bucolic Horning’s Hideout, […]

[rating=8.00] The Canadian musical collective known as Broken Social Scene has been making music together since 1999. Formed by its core duo of Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning, the band has been made up of as few six members to as many as eighteen, the latter of which is how many took part in the […]

When The Kentucky Headhunters took off in 1989 following the release of their debut album, Pickin’ On Nashville, you knew they were the real deal. Their southern rock/blues/country sound appealed to a wide range of music lovers and they sold out concerts, shot up the Billboard charts and won a Grammy all within a two […]

Complete photos of the 2017 High Sierra Music Festival way up in Quincy, CA. Photos by Andrew Quist.

The inaugural “MEMPHO” music festival announces Grammy Award-winning artists Cage The Elephant and Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Grammy-nominated Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals, as well as Cold War Kids, Bishop Briggs, Robert Randolph and The Family Band, Hard Working Americans, Southern Avenue among other featured performers. A special tribute to the music […]

Neil Young will release a new studio album originally recorded in 1976 titled HITCHHIKER, which is set for release on August 4, via Reprise Records and will be available on vinyl, CD and digitally.  The 10-track all acoustic album was recorded live in the studio on August 11, ’76, at Indigo Studio’s in Malibu, CA. […]

Round one of photos by Andrew Quist of the 2017 High Sierra Music Festival..

[rating=9.00] The obvious question that comes to mind on first exposure to Nashville singer/songwriter Bern Kelly and his excellent new album is, “Who is this guy and how has he managed to elude wider recognition. In simple, straightforward terms, suffice it to say that Lost Films is the kind of album that qualifies as an […]