Archive: 2022

On St. Paul and the Broken Bones debut, 2014’s Half The City, the eight-piece group joined a list of retro-soul purveyors, yet every release since then has found the band expanding their sound. On their newest release, The Alien Coast, they go their furthest out yet, dabbling in a host of different styles and delivering […]

A new face on the scene, David Jameson explores outlaw country themes of the old west through a modern lens shaped by his global travels and family traditions. Jameson took a circuitous route to country music. His music career started on the other side of the globe when he was living in China. After his […]

Jon Tyler Wiley proudly blurs the lines between genres, creating a southern sound caught halfway between anthemic rock ’n’ roll and atmospheric Americana. Influenced by acts like Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Jon Tyler Wiley & His Virginia Choir (his live lineup) is a collaborative band of […]

Blues Hall of Famer, the legendary John Mayall, AKA “The Godfather of British Blues, has announced that he has stopped touring at the young age of 88 but his latest project, The Sun Is Shining Down, reveals a belying vitality. In fact, with well over forty albums in his storied career, this sits among a […]

Over the course of the fifty years since it came out (January 1972), Jackson Browne’s first album is not often mentioned in discussions of landmark debut albums. But it should be. On this collection of ten original songs (often referred to mistakenly as ‘Saturate Before Using’ based on its cover graphic), the California poet laureate […]

Stockholm post-punk band Vgra Boys (= “ia” because spam FILTERS) have announced a US tour, their first in support of their latest album Welfare Jazz. Kicking off April 1st in Boston and wrapping up their debut Coachella performance on April 24th the 15 date tour will make stops in Philadelphia, DC, Brooklyn, Chicago, San Francisco […]

The Decemberists have announced a Summer 2022 North American tour ARISE FROM THE BUNKERS.  Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy described the upcoming tour in a note to fans:​ “We’re wiping away the accumulated grime from windows and revealing, for the first time in a very long time, the glimmer of sunlight. We see the green dappled leaves, the soughing tree […]

The perpetually-introspective Neil Young is demanding Spotify remove his music as long as it continues to host The Joe Rogan Experience (JRE) podcast on its digital platform. Rolling Stone reported that Young posted a letter on NeilYoungArchives.com, now deleted, to a Warner Bros. executive and his manager that said he wants his songs and albums […]

Circles Around the Sun has announced its first tour in 2022. The band will head out in March and April on a 21-show headline run that cuts clear across the U.S. Beginning March 16 at The Sinclair in Cambridge followed by a handful of additional Northeast dates, they’ll then make stops throughout the Midwest including March 19 at Beachland […]

Wilco’s  Solid Sound festival takes place May 27th-29th at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA. Today, the festival announces its 2022 lineup. There are few festivals that measure up to Solid Sound’s diverse and surprising programming, and 2022 only further solidifies the festival’s commitment to a robust and eclectic offering. 3-day weekend passes are on sale now and nearly sold […]

One year ago, The Weather Station released Ignorance, one of 2021’s most praised and far-reaching albums. Today, Tamara Lindeman announces How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars, a new album out March 4th on Fat Possum, and presents its lead single/video, “Endless Time” which can be heard below. How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars is intended to be […]

Dillon Vanders is a master of song and melody, almost effortlessly mixing his musical origins into cinematic lustre that can fit either in the studio or the honky tonk club. His earliest influences include Simon & Garfunkel, Joni Mitchell, Johnny Cash, and Marty Robbins, and those mighty voices shine brightly on his solo debut album […]

On Extreme Witchcraft, the always willing to experiment Eels has given fans something to sink their teeth into. The fourteenth studio album finds Mark Oliver Everett working with John Parish for the first time since 2001’s Souljacker and the end result is better than that predecessor. Everett has stated that the album contains a sense […]

Given their lush vocal presentation and melodic presentation it’s entirely fitting that Boston’s Coral Moons have earned prestigious spots at this year’s Levitate Festival and Boston Calling Music Festival playing before acts that include Phil Lesh & Friends, Jack Johnson, Foo Fighters, and of course the mighty Metalllica. And while Coral Moon’s wistful and colorful […]

Modern Folk artist Eddie Berman recently released his latest album, Broken English, which brings across a big sweep of cosmic themes in a very intriguing way through layered lyrics with plenty of cultural references to ponder. The album was very much recorded in ways inspired by Covid challenges, with Berman working remotely and recording all […]

Brent Cobb is a prolific songwriter best known for albums like Keep ‘Em on They Toes and the Grammy-nominated Shine on Rainy Day. You wouldn’t be wrong to call him a country singer, but he incorporates a fair amount of rock and roll into his sound as well. Like a lot of singers raised in […]

The young saxophonist and composer Immanuel Wilkins set a high bar from himself with his 2020 debut, Omega. Debuts from young artists rarely draw much attention but Wilkins benefits by being on the premiere Blue Note label. Nonetheless, his confidence, self-assuredness, intuitive understanding of the spiritual aspects of Black music, and his imaginative playing led […]

Daptone Records presents The James Hunter Six’s latest offering, With Love: a heart-shaped collection of candle-lit ballads and love songs due out digitally February 14 and physically on March 25 on Daptone Records. Plucked like so many “he loves you” petals from the vast and sumptuous garden of his Daptone Recordings, these twelve lilting melodies […]

Always busy on the road even as he pushes past age 80, Bob Dylan keeps this post lockdown “Rough and Rowdy Ways” chapter of his Never Ending Tour going. The unsurpassed artist has announced dates for a U.S. tour that launches March 3 in Phoenix, Arizona, and wraps up April 14 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. […]