Sting With An Arm Sling, Brings On The Hits At Philadelphia’s Met Opera House (PHOTOS)
Following surgery a few weeks back, Sting performed at the Philadelphia’s Metropolitan Opera House in an arm sling for his left arm after tearing a tendon in his shoulder. Despite not being able to play bass, the former Police frontman’s voice was in fine form performing a run of greatest hits and Police favorites. Photos […]
SONG PREMIERE: Tim Barr (Silverbird) Delivers Dream Pop Stream Of Conscious Via “Crimson Kid”
Early highlights of New York City-based singer-songwriter and firefighter (yes you read that right!) Tim Barr’s career include playing bass for Lana Del Rey during the Lizzy Grant era and fronting the late 2000s band Recluse. Tim formed the band Silverbird in 2013. Around this time, he had an opportunity to study with Mike Longo, who […]
SONG PREMIERE: Gino and the Goons Deliver Straight to the Veins Rock ‘n Roll with “She Can Take It”
Gino and the Goons are an American rock ‘n roll band. They are fast and loose, loose, and loud. Not so fast you can’t dance and not to loose where you’ll catch a VD. Gino Bambino started this band in 2007 and he will end it when he sees fit. Goons come and go. Some […]
VIDEO PREMIERE: MAITA Channel Cathartic and Colorful Indie Rock Sound with “Can’t Blame a Kid”
The unlikelihood of getting signed as a new artist is seen as a given these days. What’s even more unusual is the prospect of submitting a record with so much impact that it drastically alters the structure of the label in question. In 2018, Portland band MAITA sent their recently completed record, Best Wishes, to […]
20 Years Ago Today- The Late Great Doug Sahm Dies at 58 (Listen to Thanksgiving ’72 Jam With Garcia & Russell)
Margaux Floats with Airy Bedroom Pop on ‘More Brilliant Is the Hand that Throws the Coin’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
Margaux Bouchegnies – known simply as Margaux – is a pop artist originally from Seattle and currently attending school in New York. Her music is classified as bedroom pop. Just hearing the term, you can take it to mean it’s pop music recorded in a bedroom. And that may be the case. However, you don’t […]
10 Years Ago Today – Them Crooked Vultures Release Debut LP (Watch Live at Reading ’09)
Hiss Golden Messenger Spread The Light During Shortened Webster Hall Show (SHOW REVIEW)
When the Hiss Golden Messenger show at Webster Hall on November 14th seemed to end abruptly, the crowd suspected something was amiss. One of the most generous bands to grace a stage anywhere, Hiss is known to love an encore, to read the room just right. We later discovered they’d been unceremoniously rushed to conclude […]
Boston Lyric Opera’s ‘Fellow Travelers’ Invokes Timely Political Power Message
Boston Lyric Opera has once again successfully adapted and tackled politically and socially topical subjects in “Fellow Travelers”, an opera by Gregory Spears with Libretto by Greg Pierce. In a tale of covert romances, politics and power “Fellow Travelers”, based on the best-selling novel by Thomas Mallon, superbly balances a contemporary storyline with a gorgeous […]
…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Hit 25th Year with New LP & U.S. Tour
Austin’s …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead are returning after six years with their 10th full-length studio album X: The Godless Void and Other Stories – due out on January 17th, 2020 on Dine Alone Records in North America. The new LP comes as the band enters their 25th year together and …Trail of Dead […]