Archive: 2019

King Krule has released a short film called Hey World!, directed by Charlotte Patmore and written by Archy Marshall. With signature King Krule wit and in his own unique style, the short film shows Marshall performing solo four as-yet-unreleased tracks, titled “Perfecto Miserable,” “Alone, Omen 3,” “(Don’t Let The Dragon) Draag On,” and “Energy Fleets.” The film comes alongside an announcement […]

One might be forgiven for passing on an album of 90s indie rock covers launched by a 90s indie rock icon, the act feeling too recursively throwback to many. But not for your humble correspondent as Quarter Century Classix (New West) nails its mission. While Ben Lee, the aforementioned icon, is under-appreciated, and perhaps best known […]

Chet Baker’s legendary Riverside albums are being released in all formats in a 5 -CD/LP Box Set. The four albums were released between 1958 and 1959: Chet Baker Sings: It Could Happen to You,  Chet Baker in New York, Chet and Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe. The fifth is outtakes and […]

Bishop Briggs pushed musical boundaries at St Paul’s Palace Theatre on November 12th, with an elevating performance that crisscrossed many genres. Photos by Billy Briggs.

In the latest Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle offers his illustrated commentary on Safe Passage, the new album from Oklahoma folk singer John Calvin Abney, in his signature six-panel comic strip form. Click on the image for full resolution (best viewed on desktop):

Drive-By Truckers’ 12th studio album and first new LP in more than three years – the longest gap between new DBT albums – THE UNRAVELING was recorded at the legendary Sam Phillips Recording Service in Memphis, TN by GRAMMY® Award-winning engineer Matt Ross-Spang (Jason Isbell, Margo Price) and longtime DBT producer David Barbe. Co-founding singer/songwriter/guitarists […]

Warren Haynes has recently announced a never-before-released live album and film, Warren Haynes Presents: The Benefit Concert Volume 16, out December 13th via Evil Teen Records. Recorded at Warren Haynes’ Christmas Jam on December 13, 2014, The Benefit Concert Volume 16 features two hours of live music from Warren Haynes, Gov’t Mule with Jackie Greene, […]

Reformation of The Black Crowes roughly a month after the publication of Steve Gorman’s Hard to Handle provides better marketing for the book than any PR team could’ve imagined. The nebulous circumstances and seemingly arbitrary nature of the reunion, taking place ever so suddenly under the aegis of long-estranged brothers Chris and Rich Robinson, only […]

GRAMMY Award-winning singer, songwriter and performer Brandi Carlile will make her triumphant return to The Gorge next year on Saturday, June 6, 2020 for “Echoes Through The Canyon” with special guests Sheryl Crow and Yola. The special performance comes a year after Carlile’s headline debut at the venue, of which The Seattle Times praised, “a jubilant success-toasting birthday set…Carlile ripped off vibrato-soaked runs that could go […]

Wilco is pleased to announce their 2020 spring North American Tour. In conjunction, the band has released a video for “Before Us,” (below) a track from their recently-released new album, Ode to Joy. This video was directed and filmed by Zoran Orlic at The Loft in Chicago during recording sessions for the album in early 2019. Following their current 2019 fall North American Tour and the forthcoming Winterlude (a special series of […]

Nada Surf has announced the release of their long-awaited new LP, Never Not Together arriving via Barsuk on February 7. It’s the band’s ninth studio recording — their first in almost four years — and is heralded by the new single, “Something I Should Do,” which is accompanied by a new video and is available to […]

Yacht Rockers rejoice. Four-time Grammy award winners and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominees The Doobie Brothers today announced a 30-city North American tour to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the band’s founding. Tom Johnston, Michael McDonald, Pat Simmons and John McFee will be back on tour together for the first time in nearly […]

On Friday, November 15th, Alice Cooper brought his legendary rock and roll show to Peace Center in Greenville, South Carolina.

Ghost Light’s west coast fall tour brought the quintet to Portland, Oregon’s Wonder Ballroom on Saturday, November 16th for two sets of swirling rock and psychedelic jamming. As you can see from the setlist, Ghost Light played both sets without any breaks between songs, and circled back around to songs started earlier in the sets. […]

Scott H. Biram is a one-man band, handling vocals, guitar, drums, and harmonica. His persona is that of mad religious cult leader, songs often equal parts rock and roll and testifying. The image is aided by his surviving a head-on wreck with an 18-wheeler, returning to the stage a month later, giving him a supernatural […]

Acclaimed guitar virtuosos Rodrigo y Gabriela have unveiled a spectacular new version of the Metallica classic, “Battery,” which will be featured on the duo’s upcoming METAL EP, due from ATO Records on Black Friday, November 29, as a one-sided 12” vinyl Record Store Day First release, limited to 2,500 and available only at independent record […]

This tribute to Tom Waits is being issued a couple of weeks before his 70th birthday as an elite group of female artists find the beauty and magic in his songs on Come On Up to the House: Women Sing Waits. The results will likely startle you. The imagery you associate with Waits – the trashcan […]

The best music is timeless and malleable, lending itself to interpretation. Such is the music of The Allman Brothers Band.  As you know, this is the 50th anniversary of the release of their first studio album.  This year has seen multiple Allman Brothers-related projects, many of which were covered on these pages. This may be […]