Archive: 2020

The Band’s appearance at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center had the potential to be triumphant, if for no other reason than the venerable open-air venue, summer home of the Philadephia Symphony Orchestra, represented something of a hometown show: it is situated within two hours  Woodstock, the quintet’s upstate New York home at the time.   But […]

The iconic 86-year-old Wayne Shorter is revered in the top echelon of jazz greats both as a player and composer.  Wynton Marsalis, the Artistic and Managing Director said it succinctly, “Wayne Shorter is at the highest level of our music- you can’t get any higher than him. Everybody strives to have a personal sound. Wayne’s […]

It’s interesting to ponder on what kind of music Miles Davis would be making today if he were alive. Perhaps the latest effort, Absurd in the Anthropocene from widely hailed L.A. -based prolific trumpeter, composer, and producer Dan Rosenboom provides one possible answer to that unanswerable question. While Rosenboom often leads his own quintet or […]

It was a night of wild guitar heroics as prog-rock legends plus hard rock virtuoso guitarists performed at the legendary Roxy Theatre on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, California. On January 25, 2020, Sons of Apollo, the juggernaut prog-rock supergroup, introduced several songs from their just-released album MMXX (Twenty Twenty) along with a few tracks […]

Chris Maxwell is a quintuple threat: gifted songwriter, singer, guitarist, producer, arranger. He’s best known for the catchy, jagged junkyard rock he made with the legendary New York band Skeleton Key in the 90’s and more recent work as half of the Elegant Too production team. With the latter he’s composed and recorded music for […]

In the latest Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle offers his illustrated commentary on Watch It Burn, the new album from Washington D.C. punk rockers American Television, in his signature six-panel comic strip form. Click on the image for full resolution (best viewed on desktop):

Sir Richard Bishop is back from his travels around the world! With Oneiric Formulary, his forthcoming album due out April 17th via Drag City, he’s dug deeper into his bag of extra-musical gestures from the eternal and unknowable, along with a few sounds we might recognize, all transmuted for our mortal ears’ enjoyment. The title Oneiric […]

Little Dragon returns with their new studio album New Me, Same Us, available physically and digitally on March 27th on Ninja Tune. Entirely self-produced and recorded at the pioneering Swedish four-piece’s long-term home-built studio in Gothenburg, the album is another chapter in the continuing evolution of Little Dragon. The album’s infectious lead single “Hold On” […]

Sparks – brothers Ron and Russell Mael – have announced the May 15 release of their 24th studio album, A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip, and a European run of tour dates in October. In the announcement video, the band also confirm the release (without providing any dates) of the Sparks-written musical feature film Annette, starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard […]

Firefly Music Festival, the east coast’s largest music and camping festival, taking place June 18 – 21, today announced the full lineup. The 2020 lineup includes Rage Against the Machine, Billie Eilish, Halsey, Khalid, Blink 182, Maggie Rogers, Cage the Elephant, Illenium, Run the Jewels and more performing across six stages. Eilish made history at the 62nd annual Grammy Awards by becoming the first woman […]

Adding to the excitement of its previously announced headliners, Foo Fighters and Red Hot Chili Peppers, Boston Calling rolls out news today that recently reunited rock icons, Rage Against The Machine, will also headline its 2020 festival in what will be the band’s only scheduled performance in the New England area this year. Foo Fighters will kick off their headlining Boston […]

The Nine Seas, Fiona McBain (Ollabelle, The Big Bright, Then There Were Two) and Liz Tormes (solo artist, The Big Bright), will release their debut album, Dream of Me, on April 3rd. Dream of Me, a collection of 12 tracks featuring two gentle voices telling dark-hued stories, was co-produced by McBain and Tormes with southern […]

Calibro 35 is an Italian combo that labels itself as “cinematic funk”. Generally, it’s a good thing when bands create their own label to describe their music because it shows that the band is hard to fit into well-known categories. The trouble with a band creating its own genre is that it’s hard to define. […]

Having seen one of America’s very best rock bands, Drive-by Truckers (DBTs), the day after the 2016 Election, their performance was inspired, ferocious, and angry at times as one would have expected. Yet, the collective vibe both onstage in the audience was collective release from the shocking numbness still felt by the election result. As […]

I thank you for the memories I’ll carry But time has said to move along For Stone Temple Pilots, the opening lyrics for the title track of their ninth studio album, Perdida, out February 7th, truer words have not been spoken. With the deaths of singers Scott Weiland in 2015 and Chester Bennington in 2017, […]

The six core members of the ensemble Dustbowl Revival knew it was time to make changes. Perhaps this was just a matter of becoming bored with their signature sound the marks the intersection of folk, soul, and swing. Maybe the departure of two bandmates played into this change in direction. In any case, this is […]

Today, The Strokes announce an upcoming run of shows in North America. This March, the band will perform in Vancouver, Seattle and Los Angeles. Special guests King Princess and Alvvays will join The Strokes in L.A. Alvvays will also join for Seattle and Vancouver. Please see below for touring details. The general on-sale will start […]

As always the Grammy Awards gives props to many of the pop music scene, and although Billie Eilish has got talent she definitely cleaned up with best new artist, record of the year, album of the year and song of the year. She also took home best pop vocal album, for a total of five […]