Archive: 2020

Singer/songwriter Tommy Marz and leader of the venerable Tommy Marz Band has announced his new solo independent EP, Chasing Light, will be released on Wednesday, September 23rd. Marz recorded and filmed the song in quarantine after feeling a sense of shock watching what’s going on in the world, specifically with cyber-bullying. As he explains, “I […]

The open road has beckoned to generations of artists, writers, and seekers of authentic experience. For acclaimed singer/songwriter Ryan Hamilton, jumping into a minivan with his pup Peaches and driving from home near Fort Worth, Texas through the Southwest out to California last fall was not just catharsis, it was an unexpected impetus to create […]

Horton Records is pleased to announce the August 28th release of  Back To Paradise:  A Tulsa Tribute to Okie Music. In February 2020, a group of notable Tulsa musicians traveled to Leon Russell’s famed Paradise Studio at Grand Lake in Oklahoma to record the first album tracked there since 1978. Some of the biggest names […]

The adventurous, chameleon-like, affable Chicago pianist Johnny Iguana is finally making his blues debut as a leader. He’s been a sideman on countless Delmark albums and yes, he’s the same Johnny Iguana who leads the blues/jazz/rock band The Claudettes, who we reviewed on these pages in March. If you were unaware of his blues resume […]

The Jaded Hearts Club are a new band featuring frontmen Nic Cester (Jet) and Miles Kane (The Last Shadow Puppets), guitarists Graham Coxon (Blur) and Jamie Davis, plus Matt Bellamy (Muse) on bass and drummer Sean Payne (The Zutons). Today, the group shares their video for “We’ll Meet Again/Reach Out I’ll Be There,” which features […]

Guitarist. Bluesman. Interpreter. Touring musician. “One of the absolute best singer-songwriters in the world” (Associated Press). For more than 50 years. Chris Smither is an American original whose genius is both in his effortless, distinctive, rippling guitar (as he tells it, “one-third John Hurt, one-third Lightnin’ Hopkins and one-third me”) and in his reimagining the […]

Fresh off the massively successful ‘“Streaming Strings Tour,” Billy Strings has announced today that he and his band will embark on a seven-night tour dubbed the “Meet Me At The Drive-In Tour” which will kick off on Sept 11 for three nights at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre, PA. The tour will then take […]

Following in the grandiose footsteps of their previous albums, The Lemon Twigs’ third studio release Songs For The General Public does not fail to display the band’s immense musical chops in their typical style of controlled chaos. Originally set for May 1st, current conditions forced the album’s release date to unfortunately be pushed back to […]

Acoustic guitar pioneer Leo Kottke and Phish bassist Mike Gordon have announced the release of their first new album together in 15 years. NOON arrives via ATO Records at all DSPs and streaming services on Friday, August 28; the album’s physical release is set for Friday, November 20. Phish Dry Goods will have a limited pressing on […]

Jeremy Ivey is back with his new LP Waiting Out The Storm due October 9th and produced by his wife Margo Price and is Ivey’s follow-up to last year’s The Dream and the Dreamer. This record takes a wider look at the world around us—the landscape, the people that populate it, and the ways in […]

In name alone, Gloom Balloon represents grand ups and grand downs. The new album from Des Moines, Iowa-based mastermind Patrick Tape Fleming does, too. From its Sgt. Pepper’s-riffing cover (a theme of visual homage that has stretched across three full-lengths) to its compelling short story of a title (So Bergman Uses Bach To Get His […]

Good Luck, Seeker is the third from Mike Scott and his current lineup of The Waterboys, their 14th overall, and follows 2017’s Out of the Blue and 2019’s Where the Action Is and like those, draws even more heavily on earlier Waterboys and Scott solo material. At times, the full band is revved up in […]

An extraordinary piece of rock history will finally be heard this October with the release of the Allman Brothers Band’s last show with founder and guitarist Duane Allman. Recorded October 17, 1971 at the Painters Mill Music Fair in Owings Mills, MD, the recording marks Duane’s last show, as he was tragically killed in a […]

Twisted Pine is a Boston-based string band that takes that creatively mingles bluegrass and popular jazz, peppered with sprinkles of rock, funk, and country. Or in other words, its what Twisted Pine’s bass player, Chris Sartori coined as ‘neo-folk indie soul avant jazz jam grass-icana.’ Their latest album Right Now was released on August 14th […]

Willie Nile is one of the most honest, driven songwriters in rock but remains under the radar for way too many as indicated by the word in the title – “uncovered.” His body of work across four decades, and especially in the most recent decade, lends itself to a diverse array of interpretations as evidenced […]

As the Founder of the Face the Music Collective Pete Kronowitt has continually helped musicians and artists engage in grassroots advocacy to drive today’s much needed social and political change. Pete Kronowitt’s new album, Do Something Now, presents the songwriter’s voice with a crisp production style that makes the tunes come vibrantly to life. The […]

Games developers have several tricks that they use to crank up the atmosphere to make their games more enjoyable. One of these moves is to add the right kind of music. How do they do this in a way that adds to the overall experience? Continue with the Theme Music offers a great way of […]

A terrifying new vision of horror hits HBO in a big way.

Throughout their illustrious 45-year career, the Allman Brothers Ban have played many legendary venues and widely-praised live shows; however, up until this point, the sold-out show on July 19, 2005 at the Warner Theatre in Erie, PA hasn’t been included on that list. Long hailed as one of their best ever by the band members themselves, on October 16 fans will have the […]