Archive: 2022

Eddie Vedder is now the last man standing of the Seattle grunge-era frontmen. Vedder, performing last night as Eddie Vedder and The Earthlings at Benaroya Hall in Seattle, stopped his show to pay tribune to Mark Lanagen, the Screaming Trees singer who passed away yesterday (February 22) at the age of 57. Pearl Jam posted […]

Texas singer-songwriter Terry Klein has made what is likely his breakthrough album in Good Luck, Take Care. While Klein garnered plenty of acclaim from critics and peers for his songwriting on his first two folk-oriented albums produced by fellow Texan, Walt Wilkins, he decided to take this batch of ten songs to Nashville, surrendering production […]

On each album, Jack Broadbent is used to people saying, “Oh, this is a departure from your previous stuff.” That’s something the British-born singer, songwriter and guitarist has heard to varying degrees, over the course of his six albums to date, and is certainly fitting of his latest release, Ride (due out April 8th). As […]

Throughout their career, Sonic Youth would release major label noise-rock offerings for the alternative masses and then indulge their more avant-garde side with smaller projects that explored mostly noise/instrumental ideals on their own label. Thurston Moore has continued this trend with his solo work, albums like Rock N Roll Consciousness and By The Fire were […]

In the latest Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle offers his illustrated commentary on Rise, the new album from Ann Beretta, in his signature six-panel comic strip form. Click on the image for full resolution (best viewed on desktop):

The Upsides are a 4-piece rock act based in New York City, consisting of brothers Matt and Dan Fullam with longtime friends Matt DaSilva and Hart Mechlin. The guitars from Matt Fullam and Mechlin blend the Strokes with early ‘70s Heartbreakers tones, while the younger Fullam (drums) and DaSilva (bass) incorporate uptempo, danceable grooves that […]

Impassioned solo artist and Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan who was was one of the pioneers of the grunge scene and a purveyor of dark and introspective music with a renowned solo career died this morning (2/22) at age 57. Lanegan was extremely prolific in his solo output releasing many collaborations as The Gutter Twins […]

Tool’s 2022 Puscifer World Tour stops at Washington D.C.’s Capital One Arena tonight (February 22), and fans have been sharing their experiences on social media. But an exclusive offer to ToolArmy fans has some of the band’s diehards upset: The band is hawking an “ultra-deluxe” vinyl version of 2019’s Fear Inoculum for $810 at their shows, and fans on […]

 today announce the first dates of an extensive world tour, their first in nearly five years, taking in Mexico, Canada, and the United States this Spring and Summer. Tickets are on sale at 10AM local time on February 25th via sigurros.com/tour. Tickets for the Mexico tour, excluding Festival Vaivén, are on sale at 11AM local time on February 26th. More dates will follow. […]

LCD Soundsystem has confirmed details of its first live shows of 2022. The band will perform four shows at Franklin Music Hall in Philadelphia, March 28, 29, 30, 31, and follow with four shows at Boston’s newest venue Roadrunner, April 3, 4, 5, 6. Tickets for all 8 shows will go on-sale to the general public […]

Apparently, Comedian Chris Rock likes to swim in pools of irony. Rock announced on Twitter a 38-date tour set to begin with a four-night run at The Wilbur Theater on March 30 in Boston. He chose to call it the “Ego Death World Tour,” a title tinged unironically with egotism since all 37 of the stops on […]

Critically acclaimed artist Regina Spektor’s eighth studio album Home, before and after is set for release June 24 on Warner Records. P In anticipation of the upcoming record, Spektor is unveiling the album’s first single “Becoming All Alone;” which can be heard below.. Spektor is playing a special homecoming show at New York City’s iconic Carnegie Hall on April 11. Artist pre-sale begins tomorrow, February 23, […]

As Goose has flourished over the last few years, emerging as one of the premier bands working today. Now the Connecticut rock group is proud to announce the release of their third studio album, DRIPFIELD. Out on June 24, the album is a 10-track LP that explores the details of their incredible journey. “Dripfield,” the album’s titular […]

Songwriter, leatherworker, seasonal Park Service employee, and graduate student Izaak Opatz has a thing for words. More specifically, fitting them together in couplets and verses of wry humor, thoughtful simile, and close observation—a therapeutic process of narrativizing his own life that, almost as a byproduct, turns out savory nuggets of literate, confessional pop, processing life’s tough stuff into downright […]

It’s been two years since renowned psychedelic funk trio Khruangbin teamed up with R&B singer/songwriter Leon Bridges for Texas Sun, a collaborative EP that paid homage to their shared home state. Now, both with new albums of their own under their belts (Khruangbin’s Mordechai and Bridges’ Gold-Diggers Sound) they’ve joined forces once again with the […]

Longstanding New Orleans-based funk band Galactic is in the midst of their Winter Tour 2022 and they stopped at Hollywood’s Fonda Theatre on February 18 for a Mardi Gras celebratory performance. It was their first Los Angeles area appearance since 2019 and both the band and audience were excited to reconnect. Galactic has evolved over […]

It’s only February, but I feel confident in saying that one of the best albums you will hear this year is Carson McHone’s Still Life, due out this Friday, February 25th on Merge Records. The Austin-based singer-songwriter has been performing much of her adult life and forged a respectable folk-rock meets country sound on her […]

Few people outside Atlanta, Georgia, remember a rhythm and blues artist named Piano Red. But those who do know of him believe that Red’s barrelhouse piano style paved the way for the success of artists like Ray Charles. Red was the first blues musician ever to hit the pop charts with his 1950 recording, “Rocking […]

Forced off the road because of the global pandemic, Joan Osborne, like many of us with absolutely nothing to do, took advantage of being isolated in her house and did some heavy-duty cleaning. Chances are, the discovery she made in long forgotten shoe boxes is far more impressive than whatever you managed to find tucked […]