Archive: 2019

Zach Williams of The Lone Bellow performed a last minute solo show at Rockwood Music Hall in New York City on January 2nd. He played solo material, some covers, told a number of stories behind the songs, and previewed some songs that he said he hoped would be on the band’s forthcoming record which they’re […]

The Bright Light Social Hour today announced their third LP, Jude Vol. I, set for release February 1, 2019 via Modern Outsider. A lyric video for the first single from the album, “Lie To Me (Große Lüge)”, has just been released: Produced by Chris Coady (Slowdive, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Beach House) and recorded at Sunset […]

At least we didn’t have to wait 10,000 days.

The Yorgos Lanthimos costume drama took home three awards, including Best Picture, at the annual awards.

With 2018 in the rearview, we look forward to some potentially great films to keep on your radar in 2019.

Cochemea Gastelum is coming home to connect with his roots. After nearly 15 years of touring the world with Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings, the saxophonist offers a deeply personal album of jazz and indigenous-influenced rhythms. All My Relations, out February 22 on Daptone Records, is 10 tracks of mesmerizing and spiritually ascendant instrumentation. The first […]

“This is the place, where everybody finds out, who they are. This is the year, where everybody finds out, who they are.” The words cut deeply into the first few hours of 2019. Singer/songwriter Jerry Joseph led the tune backed by an accentuated version of his group the Jackmormons to cap an energetic three-night run […]

[rating=7.00] This one has building for a while. Atlanta-raised, Nashville-based Ben Cramer, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist performs under the moniker Old Sea Brigade and is releasing is first full-length album, having issued a  few singles and videos to high acclaim this past summer and fall, notably “Hope” and “Feel You.” The song “Tidal Wave” from his […]

As is the usual course for the first days of 2019, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has announced its entire lineup and it continues in the realm of recent years of going more pop than indie and rock. Childish Gambino, Tame Impala, and Ariana Grande are headlining. Solange, Kid Cudi, Aphex Twin, Janelle Monáe, the 1975, […]

For the second time this year, Chris Robinson brought his “As The Crow Flies” project to Port Chester, NY’s Capitol Theatre. The current Chris Robinson Brotherhood frontman and former Black Crowes lead singer has talked limitedly about the nature and timing of this venture, and most of the ambition is about Brother Chris missing the feel […]

Neil Young’s ex-wife Pegi Young, the subject of his song “Uknown Legend” and who was by his side throughout the majority of his adult life lost her one year battle to cancer on New Year’s Day and passed away at age 66. According to a statement she passed “surrounded by friends and family in California,”  She’s […]

We look back on the ten best films we saw in 2018.

How they do it we don’t know, but somehow Phish always manages to out top themselves each year with their New Year’s gag and this past New Years was no exception. After ushering in 2019 with a spacey “Mercury”, both Trey Anastasio and Mike Gordon, donned space suits while Trey was playing a wireless white […]

Hunter Perrin has done just about everything he can while playing guitar. He’s been based in Texas and Brooklyn, started a handful of bands, worked on soundtracks and toured with a legend in John Fogerty. But 18 years after his first record, Wild Card is Perrin’s first album as a solo vocalist. It’s a worthy […]