Archive: 2018

Grammy Award winner Ray LaMontagne is set to release his seventh studio album, Part Of The Light on May 18th via RCA Records.  The album was written and produced by Ray LaMontagne and will feature the first single, “Such A Simple Thing.” Fans that pre-order the album through Ray’s website will be able to stream a live […]

Long before he was legal, Gianni Paci was sharing the stage with rock stars like Ace Frehley of Kiss, Steven Adler of Guns N Roses and the late Mike Starr of Alice In Chains. He’s been in the studio with the likes of Gail Ann Dorsey (David Bowie, Gwen Stefani), Jon Anderson (Yes, King Crimson) […]

Office pools have become an enjoyable way to break the monotony of the work day. Every year, offices across the country (or even around the world) engage in a friendly competition, allowing employees to make bets on anything from football games to NCAA Basketball tournaments. In recent years, the popularity of office pools for Oscar […]

[rating=9.00] It’s been a year of belated accolades for the princess of modern protest and the earth mother of the folk faithful everywhere. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, given high honors by Amnesty International, lauded by the Grammy Hall of Fame, and inducted into the archives of the Library of Congress, […]

[rating=8.00] Chris Smither could have easily called it quits after his last release, the double -CD career retrospective Still on the Levee. Instead, Smither explores some new sounds, radically arranges some cover tunes, and makes another terrific record, playing with a full band on his 18th album, Call Me Lucky. Yes, we are still listening […]

The Mohawk in Austin brought Mexico to Austin, Texas on Tuesday, February 27 with the booking of Mexican superstars Molotov. Though they don’t come up in conversations quite so much stateside, their legacy spans back to the mid-’90s, and they’ve spent those years wisely establishing themselves as one of the foremost metal and rap groups […]

Anthrax proved that age holds no boundaries as they rocked out the Skyway Theatre in Minneapolis, MN on 2/24/18. Photos by Billy Briggs

Punch Brothers, who are hard at work on a new album (details to come), announce a summer tour of the United States, starting at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival just after the summer solstice, winding its way through the country, and returning to Colorado for a set at Red Rocks with Gillian Welch just ahead of […]

Ryley Walker has announced his new album, Deafman Glance, due out May 18 via Dead Oceans, and shares lead single “Telluride Speed.” Deafman Glance is the second Ryley Walker album produced by LeRoy Bach and Walker himself. It was largely recorded at the Minbal (now JAMDEK) Studios in Chicago. Some later sessions also took place at USA Studios and in LeRoy’s kitchen. Cooper Crain (Bitchin’ Bajas, […]

Stacked Like Pancakes (SLP) is a boisterous Baltimore-based brass-rock band. Beginning in 2007, Stacked Like Pancakes was founded on an idolization of artists like Reel Big Fish,  Streetlight Manifesto, and Less Than Jake. Following the 2011 debut ska album We’re Not Insane, SLP and renaissance frontman-songwriter Kellen McKay began to develop an obsession with breaking […]

It’s a close race but we make our picks for the top honors at this year’s Academy Awards

The Pitchfork Music Festival returns to Chicago’s Union Park Friday, July 20 through Sunday, July 22 for its thirteenth year. The 2018 lineup is being unveiled in three parts over the next few weeks via a hand-painted mural in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood, which is also being livestreamed on Pitchfork.com. Moments ago, the first round […]

Legendary rock musicians and cultural icons John Fogerty and ZZ Top will come together for the “Blues and Bayous Tour” this spring.  The tour, which opens on May 25th ,  will make stops across the USA from the East Coast to the West.  The full tour schedule is attached, below. Tickets go on sale starting Friday, March 2 at 10 AM local […]

Gomez has announced the 20th-anniversary edition of Mercury Music Prize-winning debut album Bring It On. “No other record captures that period so perfectly,” says Elbow’s Guy Garvey. “The concerns of the songs. The stories, the experimental sounds. It was so brave for a band to record themselves at that time: it allowed a direct and […]

The Colorado leg of the Winter Wondergrass festival took place this past weekend, February 23-25. The festival, which was hosted by the cozy mountain town of Steamboat Springs, kicked off shortly after the slopes closed down for the day and started things off in proper ski town fashion with a two-hour, free apres-ski featuring some […]

The last few years have been a whirlwind for Margo Price. After trying to make a go at a country music career for years, Price was losing before she was signed to Jack White’s Third Man Records, where her 2016 album Midwestern Farmer’s Daughter was hailed as a standout of the authentic modern outlaw country […]

In the latest Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle offers his illustrated commentary on Crushed Coins, the new album from country-Americana rocker Caleb Caudle, in his signature six-panel comic strip form. Click on the image for full resolution (best viewed on desktop):

Last week Metal Casino released their first video of Ozzy Osbourne. Created as a five-part series Ozzy will appear in exclusive Metal Casino videos. In these videos, he will talk about life as a metal legend and his own casino experiences. Ozzy’s life on film With a career spanning over five decades,Ozzy is definitely not […]

The acclaimed costume designer explains what it was like to strike a balance between a stylized and accurate depiction of Winston Churchill.