Archive: 2017

Presented by The Brothers Comatose and (((folkYEAH!))), Comatopia 2017 harkens back to the days of the Wild West with the beloved music festival heading to Bandit Town USA. Located 35 minutes from the South Entrance to Yosemite National Park in North Fork, Calif., Bandit Town USA is a one-of-a kind late 1800’s-inspired concert venue ready […]

Christos DC (aka Chris Vrenios) is a Greek-American artist, producer, and touring multi-instrumental musician based in Washington, DC. His multicultural sensibility and heart for roots music have been influential in shaping the reggae scene locally and around the world. To date, Christos has worked with legendary reggae and world music acts like Sly & Robbie, […]

Seminal British folk rock band Fairport Convention’s 50th anniversary will be celebrated onJuly 28 with two exciting releases via A&M/UMe – a lavish 7CD box set chronicling their extraordinary first decade entitled, Come All Ye – The First Ten Years, and a 180-gram vinyl reissue of their influential classic album, Liege & Lief. Both releases […]

Pearls Before Swine are placed in the liner notes somewhere between the Incredible String Band, Mimi & Richard Farina, Tim Buckley…and Love. Some have likened one of these albums to alt-country but that’s only a fraction: for most the biblically-named Pearls Before Swine are really the vehicle for Tom Rapp and the first dawning of […]

[rating=6.00] Midnight North’s Under The Lights is, like the work of many a fledgling artist, a step ahead in the process of assimilating their influences en route to conceiving a personal voice and style. As transparently imitative as is much of the album (right from its cover image hearkening to Eagles’ One of these Nights), […]

[rating=7.00] Following up 2014’s solid …Honor Is All We Know is Trouble Maker, the ninth studio album from the long reigning Berkeley punks Rancid. Once again produced by Brett Gurewitz, the group shows they are still trucking along with the best of them as they plow through 17 tracks with consistent concise energy, passion and […]

Imagine a world where every person is temporarily transported to outer space for the sole purpose of looking back on earth to experience its sheer beauty. For a brief moment, we could all escape the greatest atrocities of our time and take in an outer-world perspective to see all of humanity living in harmonious coexistence. […]

Imagine a world where every person is temporarily transported to outer space for the sole purpose of looking back on earth to experience its sheer beauty. For a brief moment, we could all escape the greatest atrocities of our time and take in an outer-world perspective to see all of humanity living in harmonious coexistence. […]

The first weekend of Electric Forest went down June 22 – 25 in Rothbury, Michigan. This year’s lineup feature The String Cheese Incident, My Morning Jacket, Lotus, Bassnectar, and tons more. Read our full review of the fest HERE!

One weekend of Electric Forest definitely lives up to and goes above and beyond its hype, and there is another weekend still to go. The aesthetic beauty of its production was tasteful and absurdly stimulating. The performers of all kinds left an impression that will be lasting and inviting, with an imprint of their own experience […]

The Texas Gentlemen have signed to New West Records and are set to release their debut album TX Jelly on September 15th, 2017. The 11-song set was cut live in four days at the legendary FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, AL and was produced by band leader and organist Beau Bedford. The album was paired […]

If ever there’s ever been an artist with one foot in the past and one in the present it Blair Crimmins. Along with his band the Hookers, Crimmins plays music rooted in old timey ragtime and Dixieland jazz but with a level of energy that makes the music more palatable to younger audiences who may […]

It was almost exactly a year ago that this reviewer wrote a glowing account of how John Mayer and the remaining touring members of the Grateful Dead found each other at the perfect time. But no one really knew what to expect when Dead and Company took their act to the summer sheds and stadiums. […]

When The Band and Bob Dylan retreated to a little house known as Big Pink deep in the woods of Upstate New York, the goal was to escape the madness of touring through big cities, dealing with crazy fans and members of the press, and to be able to catch their creative breath. Amongst the trees […]

Lillie Mae made her debut on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert last night with a performance of “Over The Hill And Through The Woods” from her recent album Forever And Then Some (out now on Third Man Records). The performance can be watched below. Lillie Mae also recently announced a headlining North American tour for […]

Deerhoof today announced their new album Mountain Moves will be released September 8th, 2017 on Joyful Noise Recordings. First single “I Will Spite Survive (ft. Jenn Wasner)” has just premiered and can be heard below… Mountain Moves comprises 12 original songs and three covers, and was recorded, performed, and produced by Deerhoof’s Greg Saunier, Ed […]

On his second album, Forced Witness, out September 8th on Secretly Canadian, Alex Cameron’s solution to the difficulties we face is a danceable and dangerous earnestness, a sense of honesty that heals and relieves even as it cleaves us or makes us laugh in self-defense. He’s offering us vivid portraits of misfits who look at […]

Although Rich Robinson is best known as the former co-founder and guitarist of The Black Crowes, he’s been more prolific as a solo artist the past 15 years (four solo albums), versus the two original albums The Black Crowes put out over the same time. So as his brother Chris has been equally prolific and […]