Archive: 2021

In the latest Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle offers his illustrated commentary on Blood Harmony, the newest album from veteran rocker Dave Hause, in his signature six-panel comic strip form. Click on the image for full resolution (best viewed on desktop):

From rewriting the hard rock rulebook with his Grammy award-winning trio, High on Fire, to reverse engineering doom metal with his genre-defining trio Sleep, Matt Pike has channeled his natural talents and chiseled a steely path straight to the heart of modern-day metal’s molten core. On February 18, Pike will release his debut solo LP, ‘Pike vs. […]

For the 7th Annual John Henry’s Friends Benefit for the Keswell School Steve Earle and company raised the most money in the fundraiser’s history at a time when it is desperately needed. The all-star lineup was the reason why Town Hall easily sold out, leaving many fans hoping to buy tickets in the seasonably warm […]

Andrew Bird and Iron & Wine come together to announce the co-headline Outside Problems tour for summer 2022. From June through August, stretching from coast to coast, the extensive run of US dates will bring the two artists to more than 25 shows at such storied venues as Los Angeles’ Greek Theatre, Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, […]

Primus has announced an extensive, 46-date, coast-to-coast extension of its wildly popular ‘A Tribute To Kings’ Tour, paying homage to prog-rock legends, Rush. ‘A Tribute To Kings’ will find the Bay area trio performing Rush’s 1977 album ‘A Farewell To Kings’ in its entirety, following a set of their own music. s bassist Les Claypool […]

Seattle-based soul-jazz groove-machine Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio announced their new album Cold As Weiss, out February 11, 2022 via Colemine Records. Cold As Weiss is the band’s first release featuring new drummer Dan Weiss, also of the powerhouse soul and funk collective The Sextones. A natural fit for the Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio’s groove-oriented rhythms, Dan’s smoldering drumming locks in the […]

Ghosts are always with us, waiting for the right moment, or reason, to reveal themselves. Then a song, a stretch of road, or someone’s laughter hits your ear, and suddenly you’re back in the moment, feeling the rush of emotions as if time never moved on. For Eleanor and Bonnie Whitmore, two of roots music’s most accomplished […]

Josh Freese is one of the most prolific drummers in music and has been for some time, working on large swaths of albums per year (including efforts from Queens of the Stone Age, Weezer, A Perfect Circle, The Replacements, and Nine Inch Nails to name only a few) and touring on a grand scale, currently […]

The Gary Burton Quartet:  Burlington Memorial Auditorium, 3/3/77 Pat Metheny Group: R.W. Hunt Mill and Mining Company, 4/13/78 Even for fans who’ve followed Pat Metheny for decades, it’s difficult to envision him as an elder statesman of the international jazz community. His perpetually-smiling, youthful visage under the shock of long hair belies the depth and […]

With life around much of the planet now bouncing between the strange state of the past eighteen months and “business as usual”, people have become much more adept at finding things to do with friends within the online world – or “cyberspace”, as it somewhat amusingly known back in the 1990s and early 2000s. It […]

On Sunday, December 12th, Phish’s Mike Gordon and acoustic guitar master Leo Kottke brought their acoustic duo tour to The Cabot in Beverly, MA.

Legendary punk band X brought their “X-Mas Re-Zoomed Tour!” to Revolution Hall in Portland, Oregon on Saturday, December 11th for a show with Soft Kill.

Tom Freund Shares Bright and Stirring Rendition of Graham Parker’s “Disney’s America” off his Now Freund is set to release his cover of the 1995 song “Disney’s America” by one of his heroes, legendary U.K. pub-rocker Graham Parker. The song is part of Freund’s forthcoming album, The Year I Spent in Space, which will be out early next year.

Monsoon at one point was a female-fronted trio out of Athens who released their debut LP Ride A Rolla back in 2015 and it gained traction very quickly. Toyota turned the title track into a Super Bowl commercial but the band never had the opportunity to tour and record upon that exposure. The trio is led by the charismatic […]

Before 2020, all sports – whether high school, college, or professional – had fans attending their games. Last year, however, saw youth sports, major league championships, and world championships played with few fans at the stadiums, if there were any fans allowed at all. This begs the question: how important are fans to sports? Well, […]

King Arthur’s Merlin is getting a new live-action movie titled Love and Monsters. Directed by Michael Matthews, this will be an adaptation by Disney that follows the storyline as outlined in the novel series authored by T.A. Barron. As of right now, the movie is said to be in early development, with Disney’s live-action team […]

Breakout trio Gabriels are setting out on a select run of headline U.S. tour dates next year in support of their new EP, Bloodline, which is out now on Elektra. Kicking off on March 3 in San Francisco, the tour includes the group’s debut performances at New York’s National Sawdust and D.C.’s Songbyrd Music House before returning to Los Angeles for a show […]