Archive: 2022

The Phantom Blues Band is a blues supergroup. Not only have they helped Taj Mahal win two Grammys and gain three other nominations, but they are also the same folks you see on records from Bonnie Raitt, Etta James, Joe Cocker, Robert Cray, Eric Burton, and even Bob Marley, and that’s just for starters.  One […]

The parallel here is just too striking to ignore. Just as the now well-decorated bluesman Bobby Rush did not win a Grammy until he was into his eighties, after many nominations, with his album Porcupine Meat, Canada’s preeminent bluesman Harrison Kennedy, the recently turned octogenarian, may have also made the best blues album of his […]

Lose Yr Mind Fest is pleased to announce the full lineup for the 8th annual independent music festival celebrating some of the best artists in rock, psychedelic, post-punk and garage. This year’s primarily local lineup of 23 bands and two music showcases will take place September 2-3, 2022 across four venues in Portland’s Central Eastside […]

Joyce Manor – “Souvenir” This kind of snotty punk pop doesn’t normally leave me this cold, but aside from the sole cover, Joyce Manor has been better before. Maybe I’m predisposed to anything OMD adjacent, but it’s hard not to admit how well the track slides into the band’s garage rock vibe. Somehow Joyce Manor […]

On 2019’s 2nd, Grace Ives debuted her take on synth-pop – stringing together a series of programmed instrumentals that seemed to support her as a singer more out of necessity than purpose. What Ives made was really bedroom pop, and each track benefited from a sort of DIY charm, one where the tracks would float […]

Rage Against The Machine is gearing up for their tour of North America this summer. Today (June 10), the band took to Instagram to post a snippet of them rehearsing for their upcoming gigs, and they sound like they never left their prime.  The world became mesmerized by Rage Against The Machine almost immediately. They […]

’Teroborona’ is a term for Civil Defense Units formed of civilians who stood up to protect Ukraine,” explains Eugene Hütz, the fiery and intensely charismatic frontman of self-proclaimed gypsy punk rock band Gogol Bordello about the English translation of the title of their new song whose video is released today, June 8, 2022 via Cooking Vinyl.  A provocative and humanizing video, “Teroborona” puts […]

Legendary musician Malcolm John “Mac” Rebennack Jr – known to music fans the world over as Dr. John – packed a lot of living into his 77 years, including a six-decade run as one of the most original, distinctive, and influential voices to ever come out of New Orleans. He was in the midst of […]

On July 29, just ahead of the band’s summer tour dates, Merge will reissue A Giant Dog’s first two full-lengths—2012’s Fight and 2013’s Bone—worldwide on limited-edition colored vinyl, reintroducing the world to the quintet Spoon’s Britt Daniel calls “the greatest American rock and roll / punk band since I don’t know when.” Celebrating its tenth birthday in 2022 is A Giant […]

Paul McCartney and his band graced the jewel of Boston, Fenway Park, for two nights this week. On the second night, Wednesday, June 8, Kenmore Square was more alive than any Red Sox homestand. McCartney, the living legend from Liverpool, who will be turning 80 years young in just over a week, commanded another sold-out […]

Doll Spirit Vessel is a band led by Malison with friends Max Holbrook (Math the Band) and Lewis Brown. The band recorded their debut album at a rented cabin near Crater Lake, Oregon in December 2020, arriving with a car full of borrowed cables and instruments, rounded out by Guitar Center “rentals” and a few […]

The title of Vieux Farka Touré’s fifth solo studio album, Les Racines, translates to “the roots” as Touré digs deep into the Songhai music of Northern Mali for this sturdy collection of ten songs. Touré is no stranger to these sounds having grown up with them, but on past solo efforts he drifted to some […]

Panda Riot take the DIY ethos to heart. The Chicago-based shoegaze band records, mixes, and self-releases their own albums. Guitarist and band co-founder Brian Cook even makes the group’s own guitar pedals. Their latest LP, Extra Cosmic, is no different, with Cook sitting in the producer chair and behind the mixing desk once again and […]

A.C. Sapphire’s Desert Car was originally slated for independent release in 2020, but only two singles came out before the pandemic left the album derailed. AC’s persistence and a lifelong drive to perform kept her afloat during the uncertainty of the pandemic. “With nothing happening, I was unsure if I’d even make music again,” she says […]

Jeff Beck found a kindred spirit in Johnny Depp when the two met in 2016. They bonded quickly over cars and guitars and spent most of their time together trying to make each other laugh. At the same time, Beck’s appreciation grew for Depp’s serious songwriting skills and his ear for music. That talent and […]

Reality shows are a dime a dozen these days, but there are some that have really stood out from the crowd. Here are our top ten reality show picks. Top Ten Reality Show Concepts Back in 1948, when the first run of Candid Camera premiered on black and white American TVs all across the country, […]

’The Black Angels have announced their brand new album Wilderness of Mirrors due out September 16 on Partisan Records. The band will also bring their blistering live show to stages across North America with a slew of dates this month, many supporting Primus, and a headlining fall tour that was just announced, Tickets are on sale now It has been five […]

Kurt Vile and The Violators shined in the late-night spotlight last night (June 8) as the musical guest on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Vile was joined by a full band during his performance of “Mount Airy Hill (Way Gone)” from his latest project Watch My Moves released in April of this year. Vile […]

“At the height of the pandemic it t became clear to me that—with everything we’d been through—there was going to be a different mind coming out the other side. As a band, we decided we weren’t going to try to go back and replicate who we were, or the reality we were living before covid, […]