SONG PREMIERE: Rum Buffalo Merge Sci-fi and Soulful Arena-Ready Rock on “Dark Mountain”

SONG PREMIERE: Rum Buffalo Merge Sci-fi and Soulful Arena-Ready Rock on “Dark Mountain”

It is not simple to categorize Rum Buffalo, an 8-piece band that finds its sound by pushing the boundaries of what they can accomplish. Their songs unfurl like the evil twin of the bustling London metropolis that birthed them—vivid, energetic, and unpredictable. Their forthcoming album, Bloodmoon, is their most ambitious work to date: tracked in […]

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30 Years Ago Today- Mother Love Bone Plays Its Last Show With Andrew Wood (Watch Live at Bumbershoot ’89)

30 Years Ago Today- Mother Love Bone Plays Its Last Show With Andrew Wood (Watch Live at Bumbershoot ’89)

30 years ago today (3/9/90), Mother Love Bone played their final show with Andrew Wood at The Central in Seattle as just ten days later, Wood, their lead singer would pass away from a heroin overdose. Mother Love Bone members Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard would go on to form…
Keller Williams Announces Keller In The Caverns Experience With Keller & The Keels & Grateful Grass

Keller Williams Announces Keller In The Caverns Experience With Keller & The Keels & Grateful Grass

Genre-hopping multi-instrumentalist Keller Williams’ Keller In The Caverns event will return for its second year on August 28 and 29. The unique music experience takes place in the spectacular underground setting of The Caverns, a subterranean concert hall located in a cave below the Cumberland Plateau in Pelham, TN. The stunning venue is home to PBS’ Emmy Award-Winning […]

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80’s Synth Pop Legend Howard Jones Honors Wistful Sound & Glowing Harmonies (PHOTOS)

80’s Synth Pop Legend Howard Jones Honors Wistful Sound & Glowing Harmonies (PHOTOS)

80’s synth-pop legend Howard Jones has no shortage of hits, many that run the gamut of nostalgia and adoring pop music. The British artist visited St. Paul’s Ordway Theater with Nick Beggs & Robin Boult on March 4th, 2020 as part of his acoustic trio tour and dusted off favorites “What Is Love?.” “Everlasting Love,” […]

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Rival Sons, Brandi Carlile, Curtis Harding Galvanize Gasparilla Music Festival Day 1 (FESTIVAL RECAP/PHOTOS)

Rival Sons, Brandi Carlile, Curtis Harding Galvanize Gasparilla Music Festival Day 1 (FESTIVAL RECAP/PHOTOS)

On an unusually cold day in Tampa, Florida, a record crowd gathered for the ninth annual Gasparilla Music Festival. The event is part of a series of festivals and parades in the city, including the  Gasparilla Pirate Festival in January and the Gasparilla Film Festival that begins March 17, all named after a mythical pirate […]

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Once & Future Band Announce New LP ‘Deleted Scenes’ Share New Single “Freaks”

Once & Future Band Announce New LP ‘Deleted Scenes’ Share New Single “Freaks”

Once & Future Band have announced their upcoming LP, Deleted Scenes will be released April 10th on Castle Face Records. With the announcement came the release of the first single off the album, “Freaks,” which just premiered and can be heard below… “Freaks’ came after a fight I had with an old girlfriend, which are invariably […]

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SXSW 2020 Cancelled

SXSW 2020 Cancelled

SXSW 2020 has been cancelled. The annual ten day technology, film, and music festival, which was set to run in Austin, Texas starting next week, March 13 and running through March 22, was cancelled today, according to a press conference held by officials from the City of Austin and Travis County, due to growing concerns […]

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50 Years Ago Today- The Temptations Abandon Motown Sound On ‘Psychedelic Shack’ LP (Listen to “War”)

50 Years Ago Today- The Temptations Abandon Motown Sound On ‘Psychedelic Shack’ LP (Listen to “War”)

50 years ago today (3/6/70), The Temptations released their twelfth album Psychedelic Shack. The album marks a drastic shift from the vocal group’s previous familiar Motown sound for something that hits on rock cylinders with help from guitars, synths and pounding drums. The instrumentation on the album is credited to…
SONG PREMIERE: Size 85 High Tops Draw From Literary Influences with Sprawling Rock Opus “Rev It Up and Ride”

SONG PREMIERE: Size 85 High Tops Draw From Literary Influences with Sprawling Rock Opus “Rev It Up and Ride”

Portland, Oregon’s Size 85 High Tops’ forthcoming album, Rev It Up (due out March 27th on In Music We Trust Records), fuses power pop, prog, acid-folk, and country to deliver a dark and lovely psych-rock cornucopia over their sprawling thirteen-track sophomore release, which will be available digitally and on double vinyl this spring. Led by […]

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Latin Funk Rockers Brownout Explore More Psychedelic Sounds on ‘Berlin Sessions’ (ALBUM REVIEW)

Latin Funk Rockers Brownout Explore More Psychedelic Sounds on ‘Berlin Sessions’ (ALBUM REVIEW)

Some bands do a tremendous job of carving out a niche for themselves. That can certainly be said for Austin musical collective Brownout, who have melded rock and funk with Latin tones and rhythms. The band carved out an even deeper niche with some Brown Sabbath albums that gave us something we didn’t know we […]

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