Archive: 2022

Puscifer, the Arizona-born band featuring Maynard James Keenan, Mat Mitchell, and Carina Round have extended their Existential Reckoning tour, announcing a Fall leg that sees the theatrically-infused concert experience adding six weeks of additional performances including the group’s first Canadian outings in support of the critically-acclaimed album. News of the dates arrives as the band wrapped up […]

Hailing from Melbourne, 60’s tinged psych-rock punks The Murlocs have announced their brand new studio album, Rapscallion, due out September 16 on ATO Records. Strapped with fuzzy guitar licks, feverish bass and psychedelic brightness, the 12-track collection is a coming-of-age novel in an album form. The wildly squalid odyssey populated by an outrageous cast of misfit characters — teenage vagabonds and […]

Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will kick off their 2023 international tour with 31 performances across the United States with two shows coming to UBS Arena at Belmont Park on April 9 and 11. The shows will mark Springsteen and The E Street Band’s first tour dates since February 2017, their first in […]

Austin’s psych-rock legends Black Angeles will release their brand new album Wilderness of Mirrors on September 16 with Partisan Records. Today, the band has revealed the experimental single “Firefly”, a ‘60s French pop homage that features the sultry intonations in both French and English from Thievery Corporation’s LouLou Ghelichkani. Check out the swingin’ cinematic new single we’re […]

GRAMMY-nominated and critically-acclaimed songwriter Courtney Marie Andrews has shared the title track from her forthcoming album ‘Loose Future’ out 7th October via Fat Possum. This song contains Andrews’ knack for primal roots music mixed with Americana landscapes, perched below her angelic vocals. On the new single she beautifully marries the instrumentation of her earlier releases […]

Gogol Bordello frontman Eugene Hütz calls from Istanbul, Turkey, where his gypsy punk band will soon take the stage in the latest stop on their extensive European tour. Since Gogol Bordello’s inception two decades ago, they’ve become legendary for their exuberant, high-energy performances – but there’s a new urgency now, as they use their music […]

“We decided to take a break from heavy introspective lyrics. We love the playful banter of classic country duets and wanted to put out a fun and playful homage to what we love,” says husband-wife duo Megan & Shane about their potent new track “Put Me Down,” which wallops with a bit of Waylon and […]

The Deer have built a devoted audience for their uninhibited, cosmic indie folk the old fashioned way: playing their hearts out, night after night. The band formed in the college town of San Marcos, Texas just half an hour south of Austin, where the members attended Texas State University and where singer/co-songwriter Grace Rowland lived […]

On his previous album Dying Midwestern, Arlo McKinley showed that he can write an emotional song and isn’t afraid to explore tough topics. It’s true that his songs aren’t always the most cheerful, but they hit so hard because they are so real. His new album This Mess We’re In is not very cheerful either, […]

Though Pollyanna are a punk and multi-genre band from New Jersey, you’re just as likely to hear them playing in other states, since they’ve undertaken at least five tours so far, and have another coming up in the early autumn. But it made perfect sense for them to host a festive celebration for their new […]

As the title suggests, Portland, Maine-based LOVE BY NUMB3RS’ new album Earth Needs A Moon certainly takes on the celestial inspiration recently taken on by like-minded Tedeschi Trucks Band in their moon album series. Yet, while no band can touch the firework guitar displays of the prior mentioned collaborative, LOVE BY NUMB3RS’ has a fiery […]

Briggs Farm Blues Fest celebrated its 25th Anniversary, this past weekend, July 7-9, a major event that thousands of mostly camping fans in northeast Pennsylvania and surrounding states look forward to as “the best weekend of the year.” With thirteen consecutive years of attendance interrupted only in 2020 by the pandemic, this writer has witnessed its […]

The songs of MF Tomlinson are the down-but-not-out chronicles of ordinary life, widescreen portraits of his relationships and neighborhood painted with a cast of talented collaborators. MF’s on a musical mission to turn up the transcendental in his everyday experiences. Based in London, he released his first single ‘Nature Boy’ in April this year and […]

“Old Ghost, New Haunt”, is the covertly intriguing metaphysical-themed single from Knoxville’s Mark O’Polo. The melody has an inescapably soothing Animal Collective chant-like quality that hovers over the repetitive rhythmic patterns like fog over the Great Smokies. A flourish of drum samples and synths add just the right cosmic touch the song needs to come […]

After two pandemic-related postponements, Billy Joel finally made his long-awaited return to Detroit on July 9th. (In fact, while he’s played in the southeast Michigan area throughout the years, according to Setlist.fm, this was his first time playing in the city proper since 1986.) It was also the Piano Man’s first time playing the Detroit […]

Bonny Light Horseman today released “Summer Dream,” the warm and tender second single off their anticipated new album Rolling Golden Holy, due out on October 7th via 37d03d Records. “I think of ‘Summer Dream’ as the ultimate example of the ‘yes, and’ process we got into for this record,” explains Mitchell. “There was something we could […]

It’s easy to scoff at bands from the 90s as being the music of flyover states that are trapped in an endless loop of nostalgia, but this is a snobby elitist take that overlooks a key factor in their success and longevity. If you think about it, the wave of 90s alternative rock bands were […]

There are not many bands that could pull off what the Tedeschi Trucks Band did at The Mann Center in Philadelphia on their Wheels of Soul tour on July 8.  That statement has several dimensions to it. As you likely know, the band has released two parts of their four-part project, I Am the Moon, […]

In 2019 the Buffalo Killers core of Andrew Gabbard – guitar and vocals and Zachary Gabbard – bass and vocals, joined The Black Keys touring band. After circling the globe behind Let It Rock the world shut down and The Gabbard Brothers decided to record their first album together at each other’s home studios during […]