Archive: 2019

Dwayne Shivers is a folk ensemble from East Atlanta, GA, fronted by the songwriter and co-founder Micah Dalton — a locally grown, stylistically incongruent, zany, southern, racially ambiguous, brown folk singer. The story of Dwayne Shivers is a story about what it means to keep showing up, and it’s the creative mean of many fallings […]

The first shows of the anticipated “The Bizarre World Of Frank Zappa” hologram tour have been announced for the UK. The hologram show is realized by production company Eyellusion. According to the announcement, former members of Zappa’s band The Mothers of Invention are going to join the tour, including guitarists Ray White and Mike Keneally, […]

Radiator King, the Boston-bred/Brooklyn-based musician behind 2017’s A Hollow Triumph After All is gearing up to release his newest project – the forthcoming EP Roll the Dice, due out February 15th via SoundEvolution records. While the charm in Silvestri’s earlier catalogue derives from its workmanlike dedication to strain against mountains to unearth gold, on Roll […]

Grammy award-winning progressive bluegrass jam juggernauts The Infamous Stringdusters are in the midst of an extensive tour of the western United States. They stopped by Portland, Oregon’s Wonder Ballroom on January 24th and 25th to deliver two nights’ worth of high energy bluegrass. San Francisco’s Midnight North, fronted by songwriters Grahame Lesh and Elliot Peck, […]

Legendary funk guitarist Leo Nocentelli, a founding member of the Meters, led an all-star group for a night of funk and rocking blues infused songs at The Mint in Los Angeles on January 26, 2019. The National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) convention was taking place in nearby Orange County and brought many industry professionals […]

Continuing the celebration of the release of their latest album The Deconstruction, EELS will tour across the U.S. this spring, with a headline run kicking off April 21 in Boulder, CO with further shows in Minneapolis, Boston, Chicago, New York, Nashville and more. The band will then make their way to Europe for a summer run starting in Zurich […]

Vivacious Americana rocker Kyle Daniel has returned to proudly announce his sophomore EP What’s There To Say? is set for release on March 15th. 2018 saw his self-titled debut touted as one of the ten best EPs of the year in Rolling Stone Country, as What’s There To Say? shall soon catapult the artist into realms occupied by […]

JOHN MAYER has added North American concerts to his 2019 World Tour, which will kick off in Albany, New York, on Friday, July 19, at the Times Union Center and will run through September with two shows at the “Fabulous” Forum in Inglewood, California. Tickets will go on sale to the general public beginning Friday, February 1, at noon […]

Thursday and Vein at Barracuda, Austin, and Paper Tiger, San Antonio, 1/22/2019, 1/23/2019, 1/24/2019 When Thursday announced their 20th anniversary tour, featuring full length performances of their seminal records Full Collapse and War All the Time, it was met with tremendous fanfare. Adding up and coming hardcore band Vein as direct support made the tour […]

Robben Ford is one of those artists who doesn’t like repeating himself. With every new project, each new album, he puts a new spin on his sound, his playing, his lyrical focus. It’s how most artists are; otherwise they end up with dozens of songs that sound exactly the same. And that is NOT what […]

Steve Hackett’s stature as a prog pioneer goes well beyond his seminal stint with Genesis. Although he’s maintained the band’s early signature sound in his own recordings, he’s also added inventive elements of his own to further illuminate a distinctive progressive posture. On his exceptional new album, dramatically dubbed At The Edge of Light, Hackett employs […]

The Motet has been dropping their brand of funky jams since the turn of the millennium and Death Or Devotion marks the group’s ninth studio album and the first with some new members. The outfit has long made their bones on live stages around the country and for any band whose bread and butter is in-the-moment […]

It is early in the year, but one of the best double-billings you’ll come across in 2019 is on tour and is not to be missed. T. Hardy Morris and Daniel Romano, both of New West Records and both of whom released excellent records in 2018, have paired up for a series of shows together, […]

Chaz Bear/Bundick/take your pick has been bobbing along for many a year now, his Toro Y Moi project an ever-present in the decade or so since the rise of chillwave. Ascending the incline from humble home-recorded origins – down-tempo bedroom electronics aren’t an easy set of tools with which to break through the walls of […]

The headline grabber for Trapper Schoepp’s newest album Primetime Illusion is that the singer/songwriter has co-written a song with none other than Bob Dylan himself. That track “On, Wisconsin” is the last song on the record but before it spins, Schoepp delights the listener with a mix of Americana, easy rolling 70’s influenced rock and […]

FIDLAR ripped onto the scene in 2012 with a slew of adolescence-embracing, reckless rock anthems for their self-titled debut album. Nearly seven years after “Cheap Beer”, “No Waves” and “Wake Bake Skate” they are back with their third full-length album, Almost Free, which employs some new tricks but mostly stays true to the band’s debauched, […]

Perhaps Finland’s Ina Forsman came to your attention with her self-titled debut or on the Ruf Records Blues Caravan 2016. The gifted 24-year-old vocalist returns with her more expansive, fully realized sophomore effort Been Meaning to Tell You.  She’s been singing professionally since age 17. Growing up in Helsinki, she says, “I was six years […]