Archive: 2018

Drunken Prayer (AKA Freakwater’s Morgan Geer) is releasing its fifth album, Cordelia Elsewhere, mixed by Mitch Easter (Let’s Active, REM), on Friday, April 5, 2019 via Deer Lodge Records. The music on Cordelia Elsewhere is a direct, if slightly eccentric, descendent of outlaw country. These are stories of superstition, civil war and “triple stacks blocking […]

The Magpie Salute released a sublime studio debut in August 2018 featuring 12 tracks that contain all the ingredients for a classic rock record. After last year’s shows of covers, solo and old Black Crowes songs, they were surely eager to play these new songs live when they descended on the UK for a series […]

Trey Anastasio has announced a new band that from the sound of things-appears to take a modernist twist on its most recent forays into Kraut rock and then some- but then again we could be wrong with little to no description. Ghosts of the Forest is Trey Anastasio, Jon Fishman, Jennifer Hartswick, Celisse Henderson, Tony […]

Breakout singer, songwriter and performer Jade Bird has confirmed U.S. shows supporting Hozier next March. See below for more details. The newly announced dates follow a hugely successful debut U.S. headline tour, dates with Brandi Carlile, First Aid Kit, Anderson East and Colter Wall as well as festival appearances at Bonnaroo, Stagecoach, Firefly, Mountain Jam, Bumbershoot, Grandoozy, Pilgrimage and more. The tour anticipates Jade’s debut full-length—the follow […]

The Meat Puppets’ story begins with three kids, enamored of music and immersed in the psychedelic drug culture of Arizona in the ’70s, who find their way to punk rock and painstakingly become one of the most important bands of the American underground. “We began to make such a hellacious racket that we knew we […]

Cass McCombs has shared “Estrella,” a new song off of his ninth full-length album, Tip of the Sphere, due February 8th via ANTI- Records. Following lead single, “Sleeping Volcanoes,” “Estrella” presents a dreamy narrative, woven with McComb’s strong apt for storytelling and wonder of words, music, and dreams. In this tribute to the renowned Latino artist Juan Gabriel, he sings “I was roused and aroused […]

Formed in Los Angeles in 2013, Andy Frasco & the U.N. consists of Frasco (lead vocals, piano), Andee Avila (drums), Shawn Eckels (Guitar), Ernie Chang (Saxophone), and Chris Lorentz (Bass). Their sound has been described as “rock fueled by reckless abandonment and a disregard for the rules.” To date, Andy Frasco & the U.N. has […]

Say I’m Pretty—the gorgeous new album from Nashville-based musical polymath Patrick Damphier—is a collection of sun-kissed guitar pop that effortlessly glides across its 45-minute run time. But while each track seems deceptively simple, repeat listens reveal compelling nuance and depth. With the record’s layered production, a cascade of slowly evolving aural surprises lurks just beneath […]

Children of famous musicians who enter the same business have big shoes to fill. Such is the life of Devon Allman, Gregg’s son, and Duane Betts, Dickey’s son. Gregg Allman, who died in 2017, and Dickey Betts, who celebrates his 75th birthday on December 12, are two legendary original members of the Allman Brothers Band. […]

December means one thing for music lovers in many major cities: holiday concerts. On December 6th, Alt 92.3 — New York City’s recently reborn alternative rock radio station — delivered a jam-packed, sold-out concert at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center that would’ve been a formidable single-day lineup for a major music festival at Radio.com Presents Not So […]

Epicenter Festival – a new 3-day destination music experience from premier independent U.S. music festival producer Danny Wimmer Presents – brings a massive music lineup to its 2019 debut, with over 65 music artists performing on four stages, led by Foo Fighters, Tool and Korn. The inaugural festival takes place in the heart of the Mid-Atlantic region, at the newly created Rockingham Festival […]

The 30th Annual Warren Haynes Christmas Jam took December 7-8 at U.S. Cellular Center in Asheville, NC. Night two featured Dave Grol and Friends Playing “Play”, Eric Church, Gov’t Mule, Jim James and Joe Bonamassa. Photos by Brad Kutz

When we asked Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner for a sentence about the first single off his new album, he replied in typical enigmatic fashion: “Picture yourself on a boat on a river, with tangerine trees and marmalade skies… This is not that.” “The December-ish You” is from Lambchop’s disarming but intimate confessional called This (is what […]

The 30th Annual Warren Haynes Christmas Jam took December 7-8 at U.S. Cellular Center in Asheville, NC. Night one featured Dark Side of the Mule, Jim James Grace Potter, Jamey Johnson, Marco Benevento and Mike Gordon to rev up night one on Friday. Highlights included Potter being joined by saxophonist Ron Holloway and Jim James […]

“I’m kind of a junkie for sad songs and ballads,” says Bob Sumner, the younger half of Vancouver-based Americana outfit The Sumner Brothers. “As a teenager most of my friends were into hip-hop, but I felt pretty out of place rolling around suburban White Rock, British Columbia, pumping gangster rap.” Sitting in his room with […]

If you grew up in the south in the 1970’s, and beyond, the words Lynyrd Skynyrd were as familiar to you as pickup trucks, fishing and Sunday dinner. It was inevitable that a Road Home poster would hang in your room and Pronounced ‘Lĕh-‘nérd ‘Skin-‘nérd would make many spins around the turntable. And you usually […]

It wasn’t a sold-out arena this time around for the Lindsey Buckingham, the Grammy-award winning and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee. However, it was indeed a sold-out theater in historic downtown Boston, that drew in his fans that craved to see and hear him perform hits and deep cuts from both his tumultuous […]