Archive: 2019

Slightly Stoopid has announced their annual summer amphitheater tour, with this years installment: “How I Spent My Summer Vacation 2019”. This summer, Slightly Stoopid will bring along special guests Matisyahu, Tribal Seeds and HIRIE.  2019’s North American route will take the band on 28 stops from California’s Pacific Ocean across the Atlantic seaboard, with additional dates to be announced including […]

Bad Religion will release a new album entitled Age Of Unreason on Epitaph Records on May 3. Since the group’s formative years they have steadfastly advocated for humanism, reason, and individualism. Now, as these values are in decline, and nationalism and bigotry are on the rise, Bad Religion’s message has never been more essential. Age Of Unreason delivers a […]

Bad Brains’ first recordings from 1979, Black Dots to be reissued on vinyl for the first time in over 20 years. Black Dots is the first official studio recording for the seminal punk rock artists known as the Bad Brains. It was recorded in 1979 at Inner Ear Studios. This is the first official vinyl pressing in over […]

Former San Diego-based humorous folk singer Steve Poltz has been a huge hit at the annual Folk Alliance Gatherings, SXSW and countless festivals as he can put smiles on folks faces like few others. A friend once said, “How can someone be that happy?” in describing Poltz. The wave of popularity kept growing to the […]

Bluesman John Mayall is perhaps best known for his ear for talent. Legendary guitarists Eric Clapton, Peter Green, and Mick Taylor, all passed through his bands, not to mention Cream bassist Jack Bruce and the Fleetwood Mac rhythm section. Plus more modern guitar marvels like Harvey Mandel and Coco Montoya. But Mayall is more than […]

Willie Farmer is living proof that Mississippi continues to produce deep blues. The 62-year-old guitarist is neither a soul modernist nor revivalist, but simply a small-town auto mechanic who’s never shaken his love for old school legends like Muddy, Wolf and Lightnin’. A lifelong resident of tiny Duck Hill, located in the hills east of […]

Nashville-based singer-songwriter Tony Lucca is flexing his Americana muscles on his forthcoming new album, Ain’t No Storm, which he will be releasing on March 29th. Ain’t No Storm reads like a who’s who of East Nashville notables: Ken Coomer produced the record at his studio, Cartoon Moon, great Nashville players like Michael Webb, Ted Pecchio, […]

Rising pop band Parcels played a triumphant show at Irving Plaza in New York City on Friday, February 22.

Well…it wasn’t quite the train wreck it might’ve been.

Soul band Joslyn & The Sweet Compression let all their pain, love, and loss flutter to the beat of slow-burning guitar grooves and funkadelic, old-school melodies on their upcoming self-titled record due out May 17th. Even when left to her own devices for a cover tune, front-woman Joslyn Hampton bends the lyrics to her every […]

Neo-traditionalist Nicholas Mudd steps in the twangy lore of yesteryear with his self-titled debut LP set for release on April 12th.  In 2011, Mudd hopped on his Harley and hit the open highway, plotting a 10-day trip from Lexington, Kentucky to sunny Los Angeles; a 2011 pilgrimage west that would prove to be a pivotal […]

Drunken Prayer will likely bring to mind The Band for a lot of listeners, with the sense of place and tradition. But Morgan Geer’s songs and his singing often suggest a kinship with artists like Bobby Charles or Doug Sahm, musicians with Southern roots, with a yip and break to their voices, and notes of […]

If you need proof that it’s a good time for rock and roll, Caroline Rose is it. Over the years the Vermont artist has evolved from a folkie into a full-fledged rocker. Her offbeat persona that balances serious songwriting chops and oddball humor came through full force in last year’s Loner. Rose and her band […]

Legendary guitarist Peter Frampton has confirmed Peter Frampton Finale—The Farewell Tour presented by SiriusXM. The primarily U.S. tour, produced by Live Nation, will begin on June 18 in Tulsa, OK and continue throughout the summer and fall. The tour will feature special guest Jason Bonham‘s Led Zeppelin Evening, as well as Julian Frampton on the west coast stops, with additional surprise guests […]

The easiest way to explain Drenge’s Strange Creatures is to use “When I Look Into Your Eyes,” the closing track, as a microcosm of the entire album. The bones of the song are simple. Even mundane. It’s a basic acoustic strum, a pretty sing-song melody, and a beat anyone could clap. But in the hands […]

The Prince Estate and Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment, are pleased to announce the next round of physical titles set for release as part of the ongoing and definitive Prince catalog project. Next up will be Prince’s Ultimate Rave on Friday, April 26. A 3-disc bundle of the artist’s pivotal new millennium pop party dance music, Ultimate Rave brings together CDs […]

KISS went out with a bang in New Orleans for their End of the Road tour on 2/22/19 at the Smoothie King Center. Photos by Amy Harris.