Archive: 2020

From the dreamy, confessional indie-rock that fills her newest release, Bad Actor, to the bluegrass and old-time roots music that soundtracked her upbringing in small-town Pennsylvania, Jen Starsinic has spent much of her 20s in a whirl of evolution. She’s been a frontwoman, a side musician, a songwriter, and a top-tier instrumentalist. As her music has […]

After going on hiatus following their So Long, Farewell Tour in 2016, Motion City Soundtrack made their highly anticipated return to NYC in 2020. At a sold-out night at Webster Hall on January 8th, the crowd packed in to sing along to a slew of the Minneapolis rockers’ greatest hits and deeper cuts. (For what […]

On the heels of 2019’s From Another World, the prolific, two-time GRAMMY Award-winning American music icon Jim Lauderdale will release his 33rd album, When Carolina Comes Homes Again, March 6 on Yep Roc Records. The first single, “As A Sign,” co-written with Robert Hunter, is now available at all digital platforms. When Carolina Comes Home […]

As we mourn the sudden passing of Neil Peart at 67 this week, who was arguably rock’s greatest drummer and a sublime lyricist. What separated Peart from “other” drummers was his drum solos, which were the highlight of RUSH shows, where bathroom breaks were forbidden. You never saw so many air drummers in your life […]

In a loss that’s both shocking and hard to fathom, Neil Peart the legendary drummer of Rush passed away this week from a 3.5 year battle with brain cancer. Peart’s last tour with Rush was in the summer of 2015 and he’s been seen few and far between if at all since, as Rush founding […]

Thievery Corporation, the brainchild of acclaimed artists Eric Hilton and Rob Garza, are pleased to announce the Friday, April 3 release of their brand new album, Symphonik . Hilton & Garza, in association with Mason Bate’s KC Jukebox, played a historic concert on May 15, 2017 accompanied by the orchestra at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. […]

“I love it that phonograph records are popular again,” enthuses Marshall Crenshaw. “They were consigned to oblivion by the music business back when I was recording for Razor & Tie, but now they’re back!” The artist recently regained ownership of the five acclaimed albums he released on the Razor & Tie label between 1994 and […]

Silver Medal is a 5-piece rock band from Portland, Oregon that has taken rhythm-driven pop in one hand, a dog-eared existentialist novel in the other, and shaken the hell out of both until they make a catchy rhythm. With a shared addiction to compelling hooks, pop harmonies, and depressive episodes (bummer on that last one, […]

Despite its commitment to convention, The Song of Names casts an emotional spell.

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The latest edition of Paul Kelly’s Songs From the South illustrates quite vividly why the man is something of a folk hero in his native Australia. More to the point for the rest of the world, however, the two CD’s depict how brilliant he is as a songwriter, performer, recording artist and bandleader. With its […]

High Sierra Music Festival, madre of all west coast festivals, is back for its 30th iteration in 2020. Outliving early North American festivals of the 90s and persevering through the commercialized festival onslaught of the 2000s without selling out to anyone, HSMF returns to Quincy, CA, on July 2-5, 2020, offering the world-class, beloved environment […]

Lilly Hiatt is set to release Walking Proof on March 27th via New West Records. The 11-song set was produced by former Cage The Elephant member Lincoln Parish (Lucinda Williams, Lissie) and features guest appearances by Amanda Shires, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Luke Schneider, and Lilly’s father, the legendary singer-songwriter John Hiatt. John’s appearance on “Some […]

Other Lives, the Oklahoma-bred outfit fronted by Jesse Tabish, are returning with new album For Their Love, due out April 24 on ATO Records. The long-awaited follow-up to 2015’s Rituals, For Their Love is a ten-track collection with a nod to the past while progressing positively towards the future. “The album is a record reflecting […]

Steep Canyon Rangers – Asheville, North Carolina’s GRAMMY winning perennial Billboard chart-toppers – released one of 2019’s most unexpected cross-genre collaborations, teaming up with Philadelphia soul legends Boyz II Men and the Asheville Symphony for “Be Still Moses.” With a refreshingly unconventional lineup, the track was praised for its “sublime harmonies and soulful ad-libs” by […]

WIRE has shared the second single from their new album, Mind Hive, which will be released on January 24th via the band’s own label pinkflag. The band’s seventeenth studio album sees the definitive post-punk group continue a run of stellar releases, showcasing a band on peak form 40 years into their hugely influential career. “The lyric/text […]

GA-20 was formed by friends Pat Faherty and Matthew Stubbs in Boston, MA in 2018. The project was born out of their mutual love of heavy traditional Blues, R&B, and Rock & Roll of the late ’50s and early ’60s. Faherty and Stubbs bonded over legendary artists like Lazy Lester, J.B. Lenoir, Earl Hooker, Buddy […]