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 […]