Archive: 2022

One of rock music’s strangest groups came together for a magical night at New York’s Pier 17. Fans of the New Wave group have been anticipating this performance for months after the original show in September of last year was postponed due to COVID. The New Wave icons also took this opportunity to celebrate frontman […]

The Despicable Me movie series has always been shockingly memorable. Pharrell Williams handled the first two movies masterfully, producing massive hits like the viral “Happy” and this month’s TikTok sensation “Just A Cloud Away”. Fast forward to last week when obnoxiously bright posters began to spring up around London. The 70’s inspired poster showcased a […]

Today, Bay Area-based Monophonics released their video for “Sage Motel,” the title track from their new full-length out now via Colemine Records. The world’s premier psychedelic soul band, Monophonics cordially invites you to attend the grand re-opening of the once thriving, once vibrant establishment, the legendary Sage Motel. A place where folks experience the highs […]

Twenty-two years ago, a Canadian artist named Merrill Nisker going by the stage name Peaches released an album that would thrust her hyper-sexual punk-pop antics into the spotlight and keep her there for the next two decades. Booked as an anniversary tour that was surely meant to take place on the twentieth anniversary in 2020, […]

Tomorrow, iconic Los Angeles indie-pop starlet Caroline Kingsbury announces a brand new remix EP, Remixes From Heaven (out 6/10), composed of newly remixed versions of hit tracks off her debut album, Heaven’s Just A Flight (released last year via Fortune Tellers Records). To kick everything off, she has shared the first remix helmed by Nashville […]

Boston-based indie-folk musician Will Orchard — perhaps best known for his years releasing content under the name LittleBoyBigHeadOnBike and as contributing bassist on prolific indie-rock outfit The Brazen Youth’s roster — is sharing a brand new solo EP entitled Go Home Instead on May 20th via Better Company. The five-track project is littered with Orchard’s […]

Chicago four-piece The Dead Licks recently relocated from Dayton to the Big City and with it has come a newfound sound that brings together the spacious and tenacious urban indie rock of The Strokes and Interpol mixed with the hummable hard hooks of The Cult. Their new album In Disguise is out on March 20th […]

When Delta Spirit returned from hiatus in 2020 with What Is There, the self-produced album contained every over-the-top indulgence. The result was garbled, but now with Jason Kingsland (Band of Horses, Belle and Sebastian) on board to help produce, the band has kept their pop-rock grandiose but also scaled back when needed, leaving One is […]

The Nashville-based Banditos finished up recording Right On, their third album, toward the end of 2019. Then came the historic pandemic that shuttered the world for about a year and a half. Then their label, the iconic Bloodshot Records, imploded, leaving them without a label. After a frustrating couple of years, the record is finally […]

Based on his fifth studio album, Origin, Joey Alexander’s gifts are no less impressive now that he’s progressed past the point of being a child prodigy. In fact, the precocious pianist/composer/bandleader’s talents may be even more daunting now: he’s attained a level of nuanced complexity even as he’s maintained the essentially accessible nature of his […]

Ascent to the Blues marks the nineteenth as a leader for trumpeter/composer Alex Sipiagin and the second for the mostly straight-ahead Posi-Tone label. It follows 2021’s Upstream.  This writer and others have often compared the prevailing Posi-Tone to the classic Blue Note era, with an emphasis on hard bop and post-bop offerings.  If any album […]

A rock and roll band from Southern California, Sunday Mourners started humbly as The Good Job Botanical Band in the university dorm rooms of lead guitarist Max Pugh and lead localist Quinn Robinson. It was not until after they were joined by drummer Z Evan Long and bassist Casey Hoerman that the band bloomed into […]

Happy to have Leon in the Wild back on the screens of Glide with his latest indie-pop single “Powerlines”. At a glance, the track comes off as an airy, Northern California sing-a-long with a slightly psychedelic ambiance and incredibly catchy chorus. But underneath all that, “Powerlines” delves into the helplessness that results from dealing with […]

BeachLife Festival returned to Redondo Beach, California on the weekend of May 13-15, 2022 with all of the charm, surfside vibes, and satisfying musical bookings we have come to expect. After just eight months since the previous festival took place (due to pandemic rescheduling), there were some changes, but much remained the same. The music […]

The Welcome To Rockville festival is one of the largest rock festivals in the country and its lineup for the 2022 weekend is stacked with legends. While the whole lineup is jaw-dropping, nothing sticks out more than Sunday’s headliner, the return of Jane’s Addiction’s sister band Porno For Pyros. This headlining set will break their […]

In late February of last year, music fans around the world woke up to the news that the legendary electronic duo Daft Punk was calling it quits. In the wee hours of the morning, they posted a video to their Youtube titled “Epilogue”, announcing their retirement from music. Social media feeds were flooded with grief, […]

The Killers are setting off on their headlining European arena tour starting next Tuesday (May 24). Before they start performing in front of tens of thousands of their fans, they needed a practice run. The band held a small show at the 02 Academy in Sheffield, a venue with a capacity of only 2,150 seats. […]

On its surface, “Burning,” the lastest from Child Seat comes across as a synth pop rave up aloa Twin Shadow and Future Islands, where electronic music meets an ethereal whirlwind of vocal bliss. But dig futher beneath the combustible mix of 80’s meets early aughts and we hear a slaying solo from Smashing Pumpkins Jeff […]