Archive: 2020

Rock supergroups are not yet dead.  Dave Alvin recounts, “I had a crazy idea and was looking for musicians who perhaps didn’t think it was so insane.” There will be more on the inspiration for the inception of the group below but know that it includes Dave Alvin (guitar, vocals), Victor Krummnenacher (bass, vocals), David […]

Lee Ranaldo and Raül Refree are two fantastic guitarists, Ranaldo as a founding member of noise rock legends Sonic Youth and Refree as a flamenco innovator, yet their first co-release, Names of North End Women, displays almost zero guitars. However, these are also artists who work with sound just as much as their particular instruments […]

Tami Neilson is a Canadian-born New Zealand powerhouse vocalist, half-Patsy Cline, half-Wanda Jackson with a healthy dose of soul too. Put simply, she is a force of nature. While her 2018 Sassafrass was an impassioned feminist call to arms, here on Chickaboom! she’s more interested in delivering “popping firecrackers that, when stripped back to nothing […]

Renowned Deadhead Photographer Jay Blakesberg will be bringing his Between The Dark and Light – Grateful Dead Slideshow Storytelling Presentation to the East coast for four dates in celebration of his new book – Jerry Garcia: Secret Space of Dreams.  Between The Dark and Light: is a dynamic slideshow/storytelling event featuring rock-and-roll photographer Jay Blakesberg […]

Tennis’ fifth full-length album, Swimmer, is an immersive collection of dreamy pop music that captures everything the duo does well, though it doesn’t stray from the formula started with 2011’s Cape Dory. Married duo Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley produced the album themselves, nine tracks of hummable melodies that were written during a four-month sailing […]

A modern torch record, Michelle Brooke’s new EP Let the Light In (due April 10th) gets into the intricacies of love and loss with soul-infused style and aplomb. It’s neo-R&B with a big, beating heart, and doesn’t shrink from confronting the pain of those relationships – those matters of the heart – that define us. But […]

Oh Sees have announced a run of fall North American tour dates. Throughout the month of September, the band will be performing in 18 dates across the U.S. and Canada. In addition to the September tour, Oh Sees will be performing on a UK run of dates in May and a European tour this July. More […]

Launched three decades ago, Harald Löwy’s enduring German indie-tronic dreamcore project Chandeen is now gearing up for the release of its 10th album, Mercury Retrograde. The title was inspired by Löwy’s passion for astronomy and singer Julia Beyer’s fascination with astrology, the two disciplines providing a properly cosmic foundation for Chandeen’s ambient, interstellar sound. A carefully […]

Embarking on its 18th year at sea, the Forecastle Festival will return this July 17-19, 2020, featuring iconic acoustic rocker Jack Johnson; 2020 Grammy-winning Kentucky natives Cage The Elephant; and  The 1975. Additional music acts include Rainbow Kitten Surprise, Grace Potter, Jack Harlow, Third Eye Blind, Umphrey’s McGee and many more. A full list of confirmed artists from the 2020 lineup […]