Archive: 2022

Taking place across numerous venues throughout Austin, Texas, the annual South By Southwest (SXSW) festival made a triumphant return to in-person programming after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic. The music portion of this year’s event, which took place March 14-20, featured hundreds of eclectic acts from around the world with unknown bands playing […]

This past Thursday night in New York City on March 17th, Walker, self-professed “minor league indie rock star”, rolled through the city’s famed Bowery Ballroom for a hometown show full of great songs, an unexpected amount of laughs, and some seriously impressive musicianship. The show was opened by comedian Adam Friedland – enlisted by Ryley […]

 UPDATE: This now will be an official Damn Quails album, and the new album title is Clouding Up Your City.  With the release of his debut LP titled Solo Album‽, out on May 20th, Bryon White is poised to set out on his own after making a name for himself as co-founder of the acclaimed Oklahoma […]

Known for their resounding rock grandeur merging nostalgic indie-pop textures, Perth indie outfit Big Orange are holding nothing back in their newest single “Love’s Not Enough” (out March 25th). Backing up the release of the highly-praised alt-rock single “By The Dozen” earlier in the year, the four-piece band, led by Daniel Davis, are continuing to […]

When thinking of where the best music festivals are taking place today, Knoxville, TN might not be the first, or even the tenth, city to come to mind. However, in an age where festivals are ubiquitous and most seem to be a copy and paste of each other, Big Ears Festival in Knoxville dares to […]

Now as they approach their fourth decade, The Cowboy Junkies continue to interpret songs from other artists, cover songs being a long defining element of their repertoire since their beginnings in 1986. On Songs of the Recollection, you’ll hear their unique interpretations of Neil Young, Gordon Lightfoot, Bob Dylan, The Cure, David Bowie, Gram Parsons, […]

From his home near the sunny beaches of Northern California, Leon in the Wild has been quietly creating a fuzzy, jangly blend of indie-pop with some nods to psychedelic music and influences from 90s alternative bands like Grandaddy, Eels, and Built to Spill.  All music is written, recorded, mixed, and mastered from his home, allowing […]

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It’s no secret that there are dozens of celebrities who love to gamble – whether it be musicians, actors or sports personalities, it isn’t hard to think of a few people who have made the pages of the news for their love of playing casino games, slots, or poker. One of the most interesting aspects […]

On Thursday night in Orlando, a crowd fought through downtown St. Patrick’s Day traffic to see Soccer Mommy play at The Abbey. The show got off to a rough start. After the opening set by Peel Dream Magazine, there were issues setting up Soccer Mommy’s equipment. Sound techs scrambled and took nearly thirty minutes to […]

Jacob’s Ladder is as carefully conceived and executed as any entry in Brad Mehldau’s lengthy discography. But in contrast to most of those, where the brilliant pianist/composer applies himself to an acoustic keyboard in either a solo or trio format, here, he is more often featured on a panoply of electric instruments besides percussion (and […]

The SXSW satellite event out at Willie Nelson’s Luck Ranch near Spicewood, Texas, Luck Reunion celebrated the 10th anniversary of the event yesterday with a diverse slate of acts. Perhaps more so than previous years, indie rock, soul, indie-pop, punk, rockabilly and other genres unrelated to country music were prevalent at this year’s version of […]

Perhaps no band has embraced the weed life as much as Cypress Hill and with their newest release Back in Black, the group returns to the sounds and substances that made them famous. It has been a long time since 1993’s Black Sunday and “Hits from the Bong”, with the world-changing in unforeseen ways, but […]

The LA-based band Goon have recently released the EP Paint By Numbers Vol. 1, and have an LP waiting in the wings to arrive this summer, too, featuring the work of Kenny Becker, Andy Polito, Tamara Simons, Dillon Peralta, and Emily Elkin. Both collections are said to be a departure from Goon’s 2019 album, Heaven […]

Seldom has more work gone into an album of a solo artist singing alone with his guitar, in this case, the legendary original Delta bluesman, Son House, and this 1964 recording, Forever On My Mind. Dick Waterman, House’s personal manager at the time, entrusted Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys and his label, Easy Eye Sound, […]

Tone of Voice Orchestra is a 10 piece band started in 2017 by Copenhagen’s singer-songwriter Trinelise Væring and jazz saxophonist Fredrik Lundin. With unconventional instrumentation and a genre-fluid approach to songwriting, Tone of Voice Orchestra draws their influences from Scandinavian roots, jazz, and indie-folk, while blending the famous Scandinavian sound with global influences from Eastern European folklore, […]

Steve Dawson, who splits his time between Vancouver, Canada, and Nashville, is the owner of one of Canada’s premier roots labels, Black Hen Records, and is renowned for his songwriting, multi-instrumental skills, and as a top-notch producer. Lest there be any confusion, there is another Steve Dawson, a singer-songwriter and leader of the band, Dolly […]

The 1980s were the boom period for music videos, and the level of interest in them was further boosted by a revolutionary television channel called MTV.  You may have heard of it, and the creations of the period were so groundbreaking and iconic that they are still much adored and studied to this day, but […]

Animal Collective’s sold-out performance at Boston’s Paradise Rock Club on March 15th was a hypnotic stroll through their latest release, Time Skiffs, as well as a likely preview of what the quartet has in store for the future.  The group has an extensive history of treating live performances as a sonic laboratory for material in […]