Archive: 2022

Due to the fierce competition within the online casino world, new online casinos outside GamStop have to come up with creative ways to put their name on the map. New casinos can do this, for example, by offering a generous welcome bonus to attract new players. However, such a welcome bonus is of course not […]

Ian McDonald passed away today, a founding member of both King Crimson and Foreigner, his death confirmed by a press release sent to Rolling Stone, the magazine reported. He was 75 years old. Rolling Stone reported the press release says that McDonald “passed away peacefully on Feb. 9, 2022, in his home in New York […]

Eddie Vedder has released the trailer for an exclusive, intimate conversation between Vedder and Bruce Springsteen presented by Amazon Music. In the special, which was filmed on Bruce’s farm in New Jersey, the two break down Vedder’s new album, Earthling – from production and appearances by Stevie Wonder, Ringo Starr, Elton John and Andrew Watt, to Vedder’s songwriting. Directed by Thom Zimny, the special will debut on Amazon Live tomorrow, Friday, February 11th beginning at 2PM EST […]

Portland, OR band Blackwater Holylight announce Summer 2022 North American headlining tour dates today in support of their third album Silence/Motion on RidingEasy Records. The tour kicks off on May 9th. BLACKWATER HOLYLIGHT – TOUR 2022:5/09 San Diego, CA – Casbah*5/10 Scottsdale, AZ – Pub Rock*5/11 Albuquerque, NM – Sister*5/14 Lafayette, LA – Freetown Boom […]

Shreveport, Louisiana’s Seratones—fronted by the gospel-trained powerhouse frontwoman and activist A.J. Haynes—have returned with the announcement of their third album Love & Algorhythms, out on April 29th via New West Records. Seratones dive into the joyful struggle to find pleasure in a world designed to destroy you on Love & Algorhythms, which was produced by […]

Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release A Beautiful Time—Willie Nelson’s new studio album (and 17th for the label)–on Friday, April 29. A Beautiful Time arrives on the artist’s 89th birthday and will be available on vinyl (black vinyl as well as an exclusive orange vinyl edition for Barnes & Noble), CD […]

There’s a new album coming from Richmond, VA blues artist Justin Golden. Hard Times and a Woman drops April 15, 2022, and though it’s tempting to talk about how adept Justin is at bringing current ideas into blues tropes (especially his songs that touch on the brutal realities of racism in America), I think there’s […]

Fleet Foxes has announced a run of 35 headlining tour dates in support of their critically acclaimed 2020 release Shore. The tour will take Fleet Foxes through North America, the U.K. and Europe, beginning June 27th. The newly announced shows will mark the first time the full band will perform songs from its critically acclaimed fourth […]

Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators kicked off their highly anticipated River Is Rising Tour at Portland’s Roseland Theatre on February 9, the first of a 28-date national tour. The band hit the road in support of its fourth album release, 4, scheduled for release on February 11. Fellow LA hard rockers, Dead Sara, have joined […]

Spoon is possibly the most consistent band of the last 30 years. They’ve released ten albums since 1996, with only 2010’s Transference registering as anything close to a dip. Their greatest albums, A Series of Sneaks, Kill the Moonlight, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga and They Want My Soul are spread out evenly amongst their […]

In Spring of 2021, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mackenzie Shivers unveiled full-length album Rejection Letter, written partly while marooned on Cape Cod in the early days of the pandemic. This was also a period when she was exploring the guitar for the first time after many years focusing on the piano for songwriting. When the songs […]

It’s always tempting to lay comparisons right off the bat, but surely Parisian band Gunwood has a Fairport Convention/Jethro Tull thing going on with their stately taste of pastoral folk. Yet this band has many multi-faceted musical approaches that run from hard rock, poetry folk, and whatever they are just feeling good about. The band’s […]

Life Our Own Way is the full-length solo debut from David Heatley, better known to the public at large for his work as a cartoonist and animation director. The album was recorded at Piety Street Recording in Henderson, Louisiana with additional recording done at Marigny Studios and House of 1,000hz in New Orleans, produced, arranged, […]

Jamil Rashad, who performs under the moniker Boulevards, follows his 2020 EP, Brother! with this full-length Electric Cowboy: Born in Carolina, which teems with a plethora of guests. This is his fourth album and was recorded in three cities – Chicago, Nashville, and Atlanta. The album, like the EP, was co-produced by Blake Rhein of […]

Blitzen Trapper has announced its 2022 tour, which kicks off in their hometown of Portland, OR, on April 22 at Revolution Hall. The 25-date tour is in support of Holy Smokes Future Jokes, their 2020 label debut for Yep Roc Records, and 10th studio album. Tickets will go on sale to the public on Friday, […]

On a cold and wet night in Orlando, Florida on February 8th, nearly 20,000 fans crammed into the Amway Center for one of the loudest and most unique rock bands around. Fellow 1990s alternative rockers Blonde Redhead opened the show with a 45-minute set of mostly mid-tempo pop rock. Multi-instrumentalists Amedeo Pace (guitar, bass) and […]

Morgan Geer has lived and played in nearly every region of the country and sounds like it. Born in San Francisco to idealistic Alabama runaways, Morgan grew up traveling around the US following his folk-singing mother. The Name of the Ghost is Home, the new album by Drunken Prayer (due out via Fluff and Gravy […]

There are two immediate observations after listening to Frank Turner’s latest LP, FTHC. First, the music is much harder than the earlier efforts that had him swiftly segregated to the punk folk ghetto at the start of his solo career. The opening track, “Non Serviam,” proves this well.  And secondly, the songs here are much […]