Archive: 2022

After releasing one of last year’s strongest debuts and establishing themselves as one of the most unique and exciting new bands to arrive in years, English post-punk outfit Black Country, New Road make their mark permanent with the monumental Ants From Up Here. The band brings their sound to a new level here, shaving off […]

“New York City!” Kacey Musgraves exclaimed after wrapping up “cherry blossom,” the third song of her set. The packed audience at Madison Square Garden responded with a deafening, sustained cheer, as she explained it was her “first time selling out this place.” For Musgraves, who dazzled Radio City Music Hall on her last album cycle, […]

The Who has returned for yet another routing as part of The Who Hits Back! Tour. The iconic band’s upcoming North American trek promises to be another rock n’ roll knockout, bringing singer Roger Daltrey and guitarist/songwriter Pete Townshend back to US venues two years after their acclaimed MOVING ON! Tour, which wowed audiences with a series of sold-out dates. THE […]

It’s not many artists that can say that they’ve written songs in Antarctica, but for Joey Capoccia of Olympia, Washington Americana band The Pine Hearts, the South Pole was just another place to stop and look for inspiration. Working as a carpenter for the National Science Foundation, Capoccia holed up in the South Pole Station’s […]

Anyone paying attention to the jam band scene in the last few years has most likely heard of the band Goose. In a relatively short time – releasing their first album in 2016 – the five-piece hailing from the mean streets of Norwalk, Connecticut has seen their popularity soar with a group of fans eager […]

Today, Nine Inch Nails announced a series of U.S. shows – its first outing since 2018’s acclaimed COLD AND BLACK AND INFINITE tour. The headline run will kick off on April 28 at Red Hat Amphitheater in Raleigh, NC and include a two-night-stand at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado (September 2 and 3). The tour […]

Ty Segall brought his Freedom Band to Portland’s Crystal Ballroom on February 4th, only a few shows into a lengthy nationwide tour supporting his current release, Harmonizer. With many other shows happening in the city on the same evening, the venue was nonetheless at near capacity, with all attendees complying with mandated COVID protocols. Per […]

North Mississippi Allstars rolled into Venice, California to headline a new club appropriately called “The Venice West” on February 2, 2022. The band led by the Dickinson Brothers  (Luther and Cody) had just released its thirteenth album Set Sail the prior Friday (1/28), so new music as well as tracks from their more than 22-year-old […]

Given the tumult surrounding the Byrds at the end of 1966, it’s a wonder the group created such a stellar album as Younger Than Yesterday. Yet hindsight of over a half-century is particularly revelatory, both in terms of how this iconic American band found new resources within itself even as the members struggled to rise […]

In a new weekly roundup, Glide drops caustic commentary on selected tracks from release day Friday. Erin Rae – “California Belongs to You” Leave it to two El Lay rats like Erin Rae and Jonathan Wilson to release yet another song about California, but in their defense, it’s the best one here. Rae’s newest album […]

After a brief hiatus that had her questioning her future in music, Mitski has made her return with her sixth album, Laurel Hell, a tight collection of singalong hooks alongside calloused ruminations on the nature of the muse as well as where her career has led her along with the toll it might have taken.  […]

This is just cool. Fans of former and arguably the original Metallica bassist Cliff Burton who always knew he was a superhero may now have those feelings validated. Super 7, a San Francisco-based creator of pop culture collectibles, announced on the company’s Instagram page that it will release a Cliff Burton ReAction figure on Thursday, February 10 […]

Thurston Moore’s Screen Time (due out February 25th) is a series of instrumental guitar pieces recorded during the summer of 2020 as the world confronted the pandemic shutdown and as the people of good conscious stood up against the oppression of racist police oppression and murder. How much screen time does a parent allow a […]

Joshua Hedley will release his anticipated new album Neon Blue on April 22nd, 2022 via New West Records. The 12-song set was co-produced by Jordan Lehning (Rodney Crowell) & Skylar Wilson (Justin Townes Earle) and mixed by Kyle Lehning (George Strait, Randy Travis). Neon Blue is the follow up to his critically acclaimed 2018 debut […]

During the pandemic, the prolific Eric Krasno had to slow down like the rest of the world and in doing so he found familial harmony with a new house, wife, and baby. During this process, he collaborated with producer Otis McDonald on a cover of Bob Dylan’s “Man In Me”, this recording experience, and song, […]

Cate Le Bon’s last album, 2019’s Reward, was one of that year’s best. It found a way, as each of her albums does, to build on the pattern and formula that preceded it while embracing a different aspect of Le Bon, or at least the woman she was at the time of recording. Long gone […]

El Perro is a brand new band led by guitarist/vocalist/songwriter/producer Parker Griggs of Radio Moscow. Beside Griggs, El Perro also includes former Radio Moscow drummer Lonnie Blanton, bassist Shawn Davis, guitarist Jaron Yancey, and percussionist Tawny Harrington. The sound contains elements that fans of Radio Moscow will recognize, but this is rock music with a […]

It’s not hyperbole to say The Devine Comedy (aka Neil Hannon) is hard to categorize. Clearly many musicians are loathe to admit their music could possibly sound like any other band in history. In some cases, they bristle at the even being categorized to a specific genre. That being said, The Divine Comedy is truly […]