Archive: 2020

We covered the acoustic trio The Furious Seasons’ 2018 release Now Residing Abroad on these pages and with this, La Fonda, the band is releasing their seventh album and third as an acoustic trio. Bandleader/ guitarist/songwriter and vocalist David Steinhart sees this as a focused effort, a new song cycle dealing with losing a best […]

Andy Blunda (aka Blunda) is a composer and musician from North Hollywood. He is a busy man, and even if you don’t know it, you may have heard his compositions on shows like Ax Men and Jay Leno’s Garage. On top of his duties composing music for television shows, he is a producer and has […]

The latest edition of Phish’s weekly archival video series Dinner And A Movie is a special one as the band will be debuting their historic 7/8/94 concert from Great Woods outside of Boston.  In addition to a strong second set anchored by monster takes on classics such as “You Enjoy Myself” and “Stash” (this standout […]

Mastodon will be celebrating its 20th anniversary this year by unleashing a rarities collection, Medium Rarities, this September 11th, on CD and digital via Reprise Records. A pink vinyl edition will follow on October 16th. Among the many rare highlights included here is a new track “Fallen Torches,” recorded in 2019. The band explains, “‘Fallen Torches’ is an unreleased […]

This debut is a charming dramedy set amidst WWII England.

Most recording artists are lucky to enjoy one successful comeback. As befit a rock ’n’ roll pioneer on his exalted scale, Little Richard waged several. Once upon a time, when he was racking up a non-stop string of mid-’50s smashes for Specialty Records producer Bumps Blackwell with his blistering New Orleans-cut “Tutti Frutti,” “Long Tall […]

Molly Tuttle has released her cover of Rancid’s “Olympia, WA” The new song is joined by a companion visual and will appear on Tuttle’s forthcoming record, … but i’d rather be with you, available everywhere Friday, August 28 via Compass Records. “I used to listen to Rancid and Operation Ivy all the time as an angsty 7th […]

Austin, Texas-based Heartless Bastards have teamed up with Spaceflight Records to release a digital single, “Revolution,” out everywhere today. The song has been exclusively available for download via Bandcamp since July 3, and a portion of all Bandcamp proceeds will continue to be donated to the ACLU in support of civil rights. Lead vocalist, Erika Wennerstrom, explains the new single and says: […]

Today Robert Plant has shared the first of three previously unreleased songs from his upcoming career-spanning new 2-CD set Digging Deep. “Charlie Patton Highway (Turn It Up – Part 1),” taken from the soon-to-be-released album Band of Joy Volume 2, is available now at all digital service providers. The limited edition collection – also available for streaming and […]

Better late than never indeed and progressive rock fans shall rejoice. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Jon Anderson, venerable frontman of iconic prog-rockers Yes across three tenures between 1968 and 2008 and prolific solo artist pulls one from the vaults to form his 15th solo album titled 1000 Hands: Chapter One. And yes, […]

Modern age songster, singer, multi-instrumentalist, photographer and videographer Kirby Sybert makes his solo LP debut with Happy People Make Happy Things, due out on August 7th. Kirby sings, plays guitar, keys and drums in addition to recording and producing a large portion of the album in his Philadelphia bedroom. It is a return to the […]

It seems almost unreal that it’s been 29 years since The Psychedelic Furs last put out an album’s-worth of all new material. Perhaps that’s because the band has been almost ubiquitous over the past decade. After sitting out a big chunk of the ‘90s, the band reformed in the early aughts and have been touring […]

Dirty Streets is a trio from Memphis whose albums have always been filled with soul-infused boogie rock songs that could just as easily have been recorded in the mid- to late 70s. In fact, if these guys had been alive then, it’s easy to imagine that they would now be a staple on classic-rock radio.  […]

Rock and roll resumes can be taken in varying degrees, but when you come across a Seattle veteran who has been in bands with various Emerald City greats, one has to tip their hat. Take Danny Newcomb who has meandered and rocked his way from project to project, only to gain newfound sounds to his […]

Art pop legends The Mommyheads have released their aching new single, “Out From Under The Glass” from their long-awaited new album New Kings of Pop, due out on August 28, 2020, via Fan Records and Mommyhead Music. The video for “Out From Under The Glass” features front-to-back RotoScope animation and can be seen below. “Out From […]

“I think we put a lot of stock in debut albums and how they’re supposed to be some kind of mission statement for a career to come,” muses Noah Sacré, better known as Speelburg. Five years is a long time spent ruminating your debut – the follow-up to 2015’s EP Lay It Right – but […]

Laura Veirs has announced her eleventh album titled My Echo due out 10/23 via Raven Marching Band and Bella Union. The album features Jim James, Bill Frisell, Karl Blau, M. Ward and others. Veirs shared her thoughts about this anticipated release… My Echo is my 11th solo album. It’s my “my songs knew I was getting divorced before I did” […]

Trey Anastasio will release his new album, Lonely Trip, tomorrow, July 31, on his own Rubber Jungle Records. The songs that make up Lonely Trip were written and recorded during lockdown at his home in New York City. Anastasio initially released the Lonely Trip songs as they were finished via his instagram. All of the songs have been remixed […]