Archive: 2019

Tedeschi Trucks Band’s Wheels of Soul tour – a standout of the summer concert season – is returning next year with two performers who exemplify the best of the modern soul movement. Wheels of Soul 2020 welcomes St. Paul and The Broken Bones, as well as TTB’s own talented keyboardist Gabe Dixon and his trio, […]

Tame Impala (Kevin Parker) will release his fourth studio album, The Slow Rush on February 14 (Interscope), and today he announces a full North American tour in support of the album. The tour kicks off with the previously announced date of March 9 at San Diego’s Pechanga Arena and concludes August 7 at The Gorge Amphitheatre in George, […]

Oakland rock outfit Howlin Rain brought their hard-driving live show to Portland, Oregon’s Doug Fir Lounge on Friday, December 6th. They were packing a new live album, Under the Wheels: Live from the Coasts, Vol 1, which was a follow-up to 2018 studio album, The Alligator Bride. Portland bands PUSHY and The Lavender Flu played […]

Billy Strings has announced Spring 2020 tour dates that include four dates with special guest Molly Tuttle as well as two co-bills with Marcus King Band during New Orleans Jazz Fest. The Spring Tour headlining dates kick off on April 8th in Pittsburgh at the Roxian Theatre. Billy Strings has been hailed as the future of bluegrass, transcending tradition and genre […]

In My Town, Chip Greene’s latest release, takes a look at Nashville’s past and present. The arrangements are stacked high with brass, strings, piano, and the soulful stomp of Greene’s voice, while the songs examine the effects of explosive growth upon a city whose struggling artists — once the building block of Nashville society — can no longer afford to pay rent. “These songs are […]

Brittany Howard will kick off a North American headline tour with a trio of California shows in March 2020. Tickets for the run, which will also take her throughout the southern United States are on sale now. She will be touring in support of Jaime, her debut solo album, which is already turning up on numerous critics’ “Best […]

The Pink Stones happened when Hunter Pinkston recruited a merry band of stoners to travel with him through time and space, creating a cosmic country, rock n’ roll sound once thought lost forever. With equal parts psychedelic country, bar room rock, and haunting ballads, the Stones invoke a feeling of a time and place gone […]

On Wednesday, December 4th, Cher brought a huge stage show and her timeless catalog to NYC’s Madison Square Garden with openers Nile Rodgers and CHIC.

Allah-Las played a sold out show at Portland’s Wonder Ballroom on Saturday, December 7th. The psych-folk-surf rock band from LA are touring on their newest album Lahs, a reference to a common misspelling of their name. Often considered revivalists, Allah-Las play rock music that is clearly rooted in 60’s psychedelia with surf-rock elements and a […]

In addition to the Steelers, Penguins and Iron City Beer, Pittsburgh has been home to some legendary Phish moments. Since their area debut in 1992 at the now-defunct club “The Metropol”, Phish has gone on to play the Pittsburgh area over a dozen times, gradually moving their way through larger and more prestigious venues, including […]

A good idea becomes overdone in this good but not great cerebral horror.

Difficult and beautiful all at once, Noah Baumbach has accomplished something extraordinary.

Some of you may have the CD box set of Miles Davis’ first legendary quintet that was released 13 years ago. But many more of you just cannot get enough of Miles and Coltrane, especially since the 180-gram vinyl sounds so damn good. Craft Recordings is releasing this 6-LP vinyl set of The Legendary Prestige […]

Red Tail, the compelling new album from acclaimed singer and songwriter Dave Simonett, is set for release on March 13th via Thirty Tigers. Simonett, who has spent almost two decades as the lead singer, guitar player and songwriter for the widely popular and beloved roots band, Tramped By Turtles, boldly steps forward with a shining […]

Dan Rosenboom, a musician at the forefront of Los Angeles’ ever-thriving creative music scene, boasts an international reputation for boundary-pushing projects and relentless productivity. A trumpet virtuoso equally at home in improvised and classical music, Rosenboom returns with his new album Absurd in the Anthropocene out on January 31, 2020 via Gearbox Records. Absurd in the Anthropocene is loaded […]

Designed by Peter Blake, the cover art for WHO is arguably be more than just a Rorschach test. The patchwork of cultural reference images conceivably mirrors the delicate interrelationships of those contributing to this twelfth album by the iconic band, their first since 2006’s Endless Wire. But the pop artist who also designed the front […]

Any independent record label that has managed to survive the digitization and disruption of the music industry is worth our admiration. Founded in 1994 back when buying physical music was a regular part of our routine, Chicago label Bloodshot Records has managed to swim against the tide for twenty-five years by carving out its own […]