Archive: 2020

NYC punk/rock ‘n’ roll band WYLDLIFE will release their fourth album ‘Year Of The Snake’ on April 17 via Steven Van Zandt’s Wicked Cool Records. Album pre-orders have launched along with a bold new single titled “Kiss And Tell”. Pre-order ‘Year of the Snake’ Of the new single, frontman Dave Feldman says, “After listening to […]

Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release First Rose of Spring—Willie Nelson‘s 70th solo studio album (and 14th for the label)–on Friday, April 24 (right before Willie‘s 87th birthday on April 29). First Rose of Spring will be available on CD, vinyl and digital formats as well as part of exclusive merch bundles on […]

It’s always special when Lyle Lovett comes to town and he’s been to Tucson many times. Every show is different and that may account for the reason that many of his fans return repeatedly. This time at the Fox Theatre on February, 18th Lovett brought his Acoustic Group to the sold-out show. Lovett has been […]

Motion City Soundtrack has recently returned from a three-year hiatus and made its return to its home city of Minneapolis, MN. The five-piece alt-rockers churned out a slew of hits and deep cuts at the newly opened Fillmore in Minneapolis, MN on 2/17/20. Photos by Billy Briggs

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On The Widow’s Walk is the new studio album from The White Buffalo (out 4/17) the touring and recording persona of Jake Smith – US singer, songwriter, guitarist, teller of tales; the Emmy nominee whose voice – a timber-shakin’ baritone of gravitas and gravel – seems fuelled by a greater truth. Of the half-dozen albums […]

It’s been a long time coming but the wait is over so it’s all good, man.

Watching Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band is a refresher course in perspective. The Ron Howard co-production is both entertaining and provocative for most of its duration, but, in working with the former guitarist and songwriter for the iconic group, director Daniel Roher intentionally or unintentionally reaffirms the fact some objects of fascination […]

Sergio Mendes to some will forever be defined for his Latin pop sound that graced AM radio in the ‘60s and ‘70s, namely his band Brasil ’66; as well as some originals and several hit covers of The Beatles, Buffalo Springfield, Joni Mitchell and many others. But, if you stopped there, you’ve missed tons of […]

They are two legendary members of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, who continue to amaze and delight audiences. As founding members of Jefferson Airplane, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady deserve their place in rock’s pantheon of greats – and that’s the pioneering psychedelic rock band that earned […]

The latest installment of The Grateful Dead’s weekly video series All The Years Live features a beloved late-era Hunter/Garcia gem: “So Many Roads”. Introduced at a December 1992 Oakland Coliseum show, this world-weary ballad was among the most well-received from the final batch of new songs the Dead debuted in the 90’s. With 55 total […]

Beach Road Weekend announced the lineup for the 2020 festival on Martha’s Vineyard. The headliners for the three-day music festival will include 9-time Grammy winner Norah Jones, Boston’s own Lake Street Dive and 7-time Grammy winner Beck. This year, the festival will feature three full days of music, spread across two stages. Now in its […]

Today, Archers of Loaf are excited to share a brand-new song “Raleigh Days,” and it arrives with an announcement of more 2020 shows. Singer and guitarist Eric Bachmann wastes no words describing how the first new Loaf song in over two decades came to be: “I built a birdhouse on the back of my van. The seeds of […]

Dr Dog performed to a sold-out crowd at Portland, Oregon’s Roseland Theater on Sunday, February 17th. Hailing from Philadelphia, the band is known for having a hard to categorize eclectic folk rock sound with a decidedly playful attitude. Would you call them Folk-Pop? Glam Rock? Dream Folk? In any case, they find themselves balancing something […]

New York City was lucky to get one of dreamy (in every sense of the word) singer-songwriter Alexandra Savior’s few US shows before she zips off to a brief European tour to promote her 2020 sophomore release The Archer.  Savior has a distinctive voice and most of her songs have a similar atmospheric sound and […]

In the latest Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle offers his illustrated commentary on Caught It From The Rye, the new album from “afterfolk” singer-songwriter Tre Burt, in his signature six-panel comic strip form. Click on the image for full resolution (best viewed on desktop):  

Some of you have heard the buzz and some may have seen a premiere of the Grammy-nominated “Best Music Film,” Miles Davis; Birth of the Cool, the documentary directed and produced by renowned Stanley Nelson. This is the audio companion. The film’s U.S. broadcast premiere will be part of  “American Masters” the award-winning biography series […]

Pat Metheny’s From This Place is the best of both worlds. The forward-thinking guitarist/composer/bandleader plays a collection of all-new original material with a quartet of recent and regular accompanists, around which interactions arrangers Alan Broadbent and Gil Goldstein contoured orchestration. The result is deeply evocative music because the production is as restrained as the interplay […]

In 2018 San Diego-based blues singer-songwriter created quite a stir with, A Woman Rules the World. It was not only an impressive debut of sorts, but she has now leveraged it to sign with one of blues’ biggest labels, Ruf, for her follow-up, Stand Up! Here’s how this writer described her approach with the debut, […]