Archive: 2019

Australia’s King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have released a new KEXP session showcasing material from this year’s stellar thrash-metal LP Infest The Rats’ Nest (ATO). The session caps off a banner year for the band, who also released the decidedly mellower Fishing For Fishies earlier in 2019. Infest The Rats’ Nest saw the group scoring their highest-ever first week sales and chart positions — […]

Moon Hooch have announced their next studio album, ‘Life On Other Planets’ will be released January 10. Recorded in a series of stunning, single-take performances, the collection may be the purest distillation of the double saxophone and drum trio’s sound yet. There’s no studio magic here, just three musicians (saxophonist Wenzl McGowan and Mike Wilbur […]

Galactic is pleased to announce their 25th-anniversary tour, a celebration they’re excited to share with fans across the country as they look back on their storied history together as a band. Over the past quarter-century, the renowned New Orleans group have released 10 studio albums, played countless gigs and festivals throughout the world, and within the […]

High Water Festival is set to return for its fourth year to North Charleston, SC’s Riverfront Park on April 18-19th. The two-day Celebration of Music, Food, and Libations – curated by the Holy City’s own Shovels & Rope in partnership with AC Entertainment – has revealed its full lineup for 2020 today. Set to perform […]

Durham, NC (by way of Michigan) flatpicking guitarist and songwriter Alan Barnosky expertly crafts Americana songs that detail the life of a modern troubadour. His critically acclaimed debut Old Freight, which was noted as being “a fantastic album, full of clever guitar work, excellent vocal performances, and punchy arrangements“ put him on the map as an […]

The crowd cheered as J.S. Ondara peeked his head out the stage door, trotted down the steps, and took center stage. But as he launched into an acapella version of “Turkish Bandana”, the crowd stilled, all eyes on the pink-suited, ruffle-shirted young man in the fedora crooning in front of five microphones. For the next […]

Bart Budwig is a son of Idaho, a cosmic country crooner, a rousing trumpet player, and cryin’-style soul singer. His music is made up of seemingly incongruous parts; thrum and strum country rhythms, jazz guitar melodies, R&B vocals. When Bart sings he draws out words into meditative mantras, whole note neologisms that keep you hanging […]

Fifteen years from the release of their eponymous debut, Vetiver’s seventh album Up on High, is a return to the bright, airy acoustic folk of their first couple of pre-Sub Pop albums. After the poppy sounds of 2015’s Complete Strangers, the folky, airy sounds of Up on High feels like a return to form. Songwriter […]

Chances are that if you’ve been to Chicago’s popular blues club, Kingston Mines, or to a recent blues festival you’ve seen Joanna Connor perform.   You also hadn’t seen many recent recordings of Connor as it has was a long drought of 14 years until she resumed recording, making a strong impact with 2016’s Six String […]

Inspired by Kanye West’s prolific work as a producer, seeming to release an album every month, Cold War Kids’ seventh studio album is being broken up into a trilogy. The first part, New Age Norms 1, is an improvement upon 2017’s disappointingly uninspired L.A. Divine but still does not reach the greatness of the Long […]