Archive: 2022

Black Midi has proved themselves to be one of the most forward-thinking rock groups of the decade, so forward-thinking in fact, that even classifying them as “rock” seems reductive. 2019’s Schlagenheim and 2021’s Cavalcade are not perfect albums, but they are, completely unique and singular in their fields; album’ that seemed destined for cult status […]

Superorganism started out their time as a band on a high note. As the intro to their brand new album World Wide Pop so humbly reminds us, the likes of Elton John and Howard Stern are huge fans of the group’s 2018 self-titled debut. Their draw is obvious, the poppy songwriting mixed with the left-field […]

On Wednesday, July 13th, Brandi Carlile taped her third appearance on Austin City Limits.

Alyssa Coco and Matt Merritt of Roses & Revolutions released an EP in 2020 called Midnight Monsters that ran riot with the nighttime exile feeling of the early pandemic period, but also confessed those shadowy dreams and found some beauty in that sense of stillness. Now, almost accidentally, they’ve put together plans for a new […]

“Never Meant to Do tou Harm” is the blazing new single from Bang Bang Jet Away, a current recording project composed of Mathhew Binder and Mike Kamoo. While the track has a strong link to The Strokes, Kamoo was in the San-Diego based Stereotypes afterall, the duo bring some new rhythmic and melodic twists to […]

Pack up the kids and the dog in the ol’ Country Squire Wagon and crank up the incredibly fun and quirky new single “Campsite” from Berlin-based singer/songwriter Anna Erhard. An endearingly dead-pan vocal delivery playfully describes all of the perfectly mundane components of a summer camping getaway set to an array of catchy synth lines […]

By now, people know what to expect from an Interpol album. There’s a formula: layered angular guitars, staccato rhythms, angsty lyrics, and Paul Banks’s disaffected baritone. And the formula works, as evidenced by the Manhattan band’s long list of great rock songs. But with any formula, it only takes one new variable to change everything. […]

Rising to the occasion in a world thirsty for meaty anthem choruses and grinding rock chords is Los Angeles-based indie rock band Near Beer. Composed of Joey Siara (vocals, guitar), Brent Stranathan (drums), Jeremy Levy (bass, backup vocals) — builds up on Siara’s work with The Henry Clay People and dashes it with anthemic punk reminiscent […]

The Jeff Beck/Johnny Depp alliance as captured on 18 benefits both men creatively and otherwise. For one thing, the album has received more advanced attention than recorded work by either man alone might garner. And while the actor/musician can reasonably gain some measure of catharsis in the wake of his recent public travails, he also […]

As a producer, record executive, songwriter, singer, and session musician; Wyatt Easterling’s career in the music industry has covered all the bases: you name it he’s done it. Yet the sly and soulful artist’s most consequential talent lies in his heartfelt ability to write amidst a magnificent confessional force alongside sweet and seductive melodies. Easterling’s […]

Willi Carlisle is the latest in a long line of punk rockers that have smoothly settled into the world of folk rock. Like Tim Barry, Frank Turner and Cory Branan before him, Carlisle has managed to tap into the lyrical authenticity of punk rock storytelling and bridge to the folk world with an acoustic guitar […]

Catapulting into the national blues and soul arena with his debut Who Is He? on VizzTone is the young vocal powerhouse Dylan Triplett, a child prodigy who began singing at 9 years old when he earned the name Little Dylan.  The now 21-year-old is a true soul singer, blessed with a four-and-a-half octave vocal range and the […]

Though still in his early 20s, on his self-released debut, Texas native Parker Twomey plays a brand of generation agnostic Country Folk that seems to draw inspiration from the likes of Hank Williams and Guy Clark. Across the eleven tracks on his new album All This Life, Twomey mines personal experiences about love, lost love […]

New Zealand singer-songwriter Marlon Williams presents “River Rival,” the whirring new single from his forthcoming album My Boy, out September 9th on Dead Oceans. “River Rival” follows “Thinking of Nina” and the previously shared title track, “a sun-dappled dream of a song” (PAPER),and further cements My Boy as the sound of Williams emerging anew. “River rival // No survival,” he haunts atop […]

Humans seem to have a knack for harnessing deep uncertainties and fear regarding the future and then, somehow, more often than not finding a way to make those fears a reality. Referencing sci-fi books from past generations is a case in point. On Colyn Cameron’s latest single “Deepfakes”, these uncertainties are eased slightly by Cameron’s inviting yet […]

Rhett Miller has announced his new album The Misfit with the dreamy and reflective debut single “Follow You Home,” featuring vocals from Cassandra Jenkins and Annie Nero. The album marks his first solo full length album in four years and will be released on September 16 via ATO Records. The Misfit, now available for pre-order, […]

Today, Halloween Meltdown – the spooky sister-festival to the beloved Mosswood Meltdown – announces the stacked lineup for their annual Halloween-themed event, taking place on Saturday, October 8th and Sunday, October 9th in Oakland’s Mosswood Park, featuring performances from Amyl & The Sniffers, Shannon & The Clams, Fuzz, Sheer Mag, The Spits, Lydia Lunch and […]

According to reports from Billboard, post-hardcore metal alumni, Pantera is reuniting its two remaining members for a reunion tour in 2023 with undisclosed additional members. After years of going back and forth in individual interviews, lead singer Phil Anselmo and bassist Rex Brown have officially announced they are heading back out on tour to honor […]