Archive: 2017

Movie and TV fans had a lot to sift through during last night’s big game.

Guitarist Nels Cline (Wilco) will be presenting the music from his acclaimed new Blue Note album Lovers live this Spring with a pair of West coast performances in Los Angeles (Royce Hall, April 8) and San Francisco (SFJAZZ, April 9). Visit nelscline.com/shows for ticket information, and stay tuned for announcements about further 2017 performances of Lovers to follow. “I feel so lucky to be able […]

Brooklyn soul-funk artist Tomás Doncker may be best known for the decades he has spent playing guitar with “No Wave” pioneers James Chance & The Contortions. Doncker has also worked with legendary acts like Bootsy Collins, Yoko Ono, Madonna, and Bonnie Raitt among other. These days the guitarist and songwriter splits his time between playing […]

Guitar genius Steve Hackett has been on a quest. After a lifetime of traveling the world and learning about new cultures, he has seen the changes that have befallen our nations. Today more than ever, he finds the distress amongst the people unsettling and sad. So much so, it has infiltrated into his new music. […]

British folk rock band Bear’s Den played to a packed house Thursday night at the Underground Art’s in Philadelphia. The duo are touring in support of their newest album, Red Earth & Pouring Rain, released last July 22. Their setlist was a nice mix of both new and old that made for a very energetic […]

moe. visited the scene Penn’s Peak indoor venue in Jim Thorpe, PA ( Poconos) as part of their 2017 Winter Tour on 2/2/17. Highlights included the first “Cornflake Girl” in five years and a cover of David Bowie’s “Fame” among the usual moe. inventive originals. Photos by Paul Citone    

It’s been roughly a decade since Rick Astley skyrocketed back to popularity thanks to becoming an internet meme. Though “RickRolling,” the act of luring an unsuspecting victim into watching the video for Astley’s 1987 hit “Never Gonna Give You Up” with a misleading link, has died down over the years, Astley endures as an online […]

[rating=9.00] Ron Gallo has a sick, twisted worldview, and that is what you’ll love about his new record Heavy Meta. Gallo has an undeniable talent and a penchant for the dark and weird side of things. His commentary can be such a bummer, perhaps because he often hits the nail on the head. But you’ll […]

Punk favorites Anti-Flag have teamed up with ska band Reel Big Fish for a tour and on Wednesday that tour made its way to Austin, Texas for a show at Emo’s. Photos by Maggie Boyd.

It’s hard to tell what’s worse, the jokes or the plot.

[rating=7.00] Little Fictions, the new album by elbow, is a slight reinvention for a band that is now seven albums and 20 years into its career. The music is less gloomy and a little more varied than previous releases. It leaves a bit more room for fun among the brooding introspection from which the band […]

[rating=8.00] In some strange way Moon Duo’s new album gets all that’s currently winter and cold. It’s the first part of a two part set inspired by a number of mythical and philosophical sources, by yin and yang, by dark and light. Guitarist Ripley Johnson talks about some of the thought behind the album, saying […]

Plenty of people go to see bands when they come through their town, but most people don’t think about everything that it takes to get those bands to their favorite club. Being on tour for a musician is both enlightening and daunting, as physically and mentally draining as it is stimulating. And no matter what, […]

Fake sentiment and emotional contrivances bog down an already hammy premise.

Cape Cod’s Chandler Travis has had a long and checkered career in the world of show biz, beginning in the seventies when he and Steve Shook joined up as Travis Shook and the Club Wow and then in the 80’s with the Incredible Casuals. Along the way Travis has appeared on stage with everyone from […]

Andrew Combs has signed to New West Records and is set to release his anticipated third album, Canyons Of My Mind, on April 7th, 2017. The 11-song set was co-produced by Skylar Wilson (Justin Townes Earle, Caitlin Rose) & Jordan Lehning (Rodney Crowell, Caitlin Rose) and recorded at Battle Tapes Studio in East Nashville, TN. […]

Jackie Greene has today announced his full spring 2017 touring plans with the Sweetwater Spring Tour, beginning with a special six-night residency at the Sweetwater Music Hall on Friday, March 24. For the first time in his career, the first sets of each residency show will be dedicated to performing one of his albums in its […]