Archive: 2020

The songwriting of Dakota Theim comes out of dreary Portland, Oregon like a ray of endearment from a bygone age. Growing up, he fell in love with pop and rock music from the 60s and 70s, which has saturated itself into his songwriting. His songs deal with themes of love, longing and navigating life as […]

People have been trying to bury rock and roll for a long time, declaring countless times that rock is dead. Well, if Mojo Nixon taught us nothing else (and there’s a lot to be learned from Mojo), he taught us that “you can’t kill rock n roll.”  If you need proof that Mojo is correct […]

The latest release from Austin singer-songwriter David Ramirez, My Love Is A Hurricane, was initially meant to be a glorified love letter of sorts to his new partner, documenting his affections via song. Unfortunately, the relationship fell part in the middle of the project, giving the album a heavy dose of unanticipated heartbreak. While there […]

New York/Nashville songwriter Marc Scibilia’s much anticipated new album Seed of Joy, is out September 4th. Written over the course of a trying year in which Scibilia welcomed his first child into the world only to lose his father to brain cancer shortly thereafter, Seed Of Joy is a resilient collection of uplifting songs with […]

Familiarity doesn’t stop Dave Franco’s directorial debut from being effective.

How’s this for a description of a record? “Like if Werner Herzog made a chamber-prog-punk record under DMT in The Chelsea Hotel.” That is as apt and vivid a description as any for The Academy of Sun’s new opus The Quiet Earth, a sweeping epic that takes in disparate themes and styles and forges them […]

As 2020 keeps on surprising us in more dire ways than we ever could have predicted, we can at least agree that studio albums have been the best they’ve been in years on this eerie start of a new decade. Ad Taylor Swift to the list as she has surprised us with the release of […]

Secret Machines have shared the new track “Everything Starts,” the second single from their upcoming LP, Awake in the Brain Chamber, the band’s first new album in over a decade. The record will be available globally, on all streaming platforms, beginning Friday, August 21. Limited-edition vinyl will be available this Fall (pre-order here). Check out the […]

On the 40th anniversary of the release of AC/DC’s most commercially successful album Back In Black, The Bird And The Bee have released an Amazon Original cover of AC/DC’s “You Shook Me All Night Long,” which is available to stream and purchase only on Amazon Music. “I just love AC/DC so much,” says Inara George, one […]

Jerry Joseph has released “Sugar Smacks”, a musical rant on the state of the world, a raw blast of emotion accompanied by a dizzying cinematic video, filled with footage from the global wanderer’s many travels over the years. The montage includes images of Joseph’s tours to Lebanon, Cambodia, Nicaragua, Israel, New Zealand, trips with his […]

Austin, TX heavy riff masters, The Sword have released footage from their first live performance together since the band went on hiatus in 2018. The first track, taken from their virtual, lockdown jam session shows the band putting their own awesome, riff-heavy spin on the classic T-Rex classic, “Children of the Revolution”, which can be heard below. […]

George Wein, the 94 year old creator and founder of Newport Jazz Festival – one of the oldest and longest running music festivals in the world has announced a full slate of programming for what would have been 2020’s Newport Jazz Festival weekend. “I’d hoped to meet my many friends and fans at the Fort on August […]

Fruit Bats’ full-album cover of Smashing Pumpkins’ iconic Siamese Dream will be available August 21 exclusively on vinyl via Turntable Kitchen’s SOUNDS DELICIOUS subscription series. The strictly limited-edition LP will feature artwork by Morgan Keys. We are delighted to share Fruit Bats’ sun-drenched cover of “Today” from this album wherever you listen to music! From Fruit Bats’ Eric D. Johnson: In 1993, […]

Rodrigo y Gabriela have announced the upcoming release of Mettavolution Live, an all-new double album recorded during last year’s Mettavolution World Tour. The 13-track collection arrives as a 2LP, 2CD, and digital download via Rubyworks/ATO on Friday October 2; pre-orders are available now. “Hearing this recording is to be able to reconnect with our marvelous […]

In between E Street Band and Crazy Horse work, master rock singer-songwriter-guitarist Nils Lofgren fit in his first tour with a full band in over 15 years. Inspired by the writing with the great Lou Reed on his last studio album, Nils knew it was time. Audience and band alike sharing their souls, gifts, spirit and […]

Dead Swells’ self titled debut album is due out August 7th via Artist Formula Record Group and is a testament to years of tireless work. Produced solely by Paul Nederostek (vocals, guitar, keys) and co-producer Wolfgang Zimmerman, whom Nederostek credits for being his “guru and life coach.” Speaking to the frontman’s endless pursuit of perfection, […]

One of the first things that is striking about southern singer-songwriter Tawny Ellis’ Love Life, her fifth full-length album, is her network of high profile musicians, producers, and engineers. To begin, she worked with three co-producers – Jesse Siedenberg (Lukas Nelson, Lissie), Ted Russell Kamp (Shooter Jennings) and Gio Loria (Jack Johnson). Renowned engineer and […]

Two of my favorite reads in recent years were time-capsule coming-of-age stories that close friends of mine, sensing kindred authors, strongly recommended: J.R. Moehringer’s “The Tender Bar” and Steve Rushin’s “Sting-Ray Afternoons.”  These memoirs oozed with all of the nostalgia and wistfulness you would expect from still-kids-at-heart writers reexamining their childhood-into-adolescence years with awe, gratitude […]