LISTEN: OSKA Shares Acoustic Simplicity On Chilling “Hallucinating (It’s Normal to Shiver)”
Growing up in a small village in Lower Austria, OSKA moved to Vienna at 18 to study her first love; music. She started busking in the streets and squares of the capital while also studying pop and jazz singing. She signed to Nettwerk in 2020 and released her debut EP Honeymoon Phase. Having a tastefully arranged string […]
Tori Amos Treats Philadelphia’s The Met To Rare Springsteen Cover & Colorful Setlist (PHOTOS)
It seems almost impossible that Tori Amos celebrated the 30th Anniversary of her debut album Little Earthquakes in January this year. It was a game-changer of an album and sounds as fresh today as it did then. 15 albums later, Amos is still an artistic innovator with an increasingly devoted following as evident by her […]
Rough Seven Reunite For A Gloriously Powerful New Orleans Set (SHOW REVIEW)
Jazzfest in New Orleans brings together plenty of sit-ins, guest appearances, and a few late-night reunions. One of the latter took place on Saturday, May 6th in the Bywater living room known as BJ’s Lounge when the Rough Seven reunited for a gloriously powerful set of garage rocking, soul-fulfilling tunes. Having been on hiatus for […]
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Danger Mouse & Black Thought Join Up For ‘Cheat Codes’ Album Out 8/12
Danger Mouse & Black Thought – two of contemporary music’s most exciting, respected artists – have announced their forthcoming joint album, Cheat Codes, out 12th August via BMG. Cheat Codes is Danger Mouse’s first hip-hop album since his DANGERDOOM collaboration with the late, great MF DOOM, and follows Black Thought’s pioneering output with The Roots and critically […]
MC Taylor (Hiss Golden Messenger) and Cameron Ralston Reveal New Chill Jazzy Project – Revelators Sound System
Revelators Sound System is the collaborative musical project of MC Taylor (Hiss Golden Messenger) and Cameron Ralston. Recorded throughout 2020 and 2021, largely at Taylor’s home in Durham, NC and Richmond, Virginia’s Spacebomb studio, where Ralston serves as the house bassist, the album is a deep meditation on community that caroms from root-down avant-funk and spiritual groove to solitary cosmic […]
The Smashing Pumpkins & Janes Addiction Announce 32 Date Arena ‘Spirits On Fire Tour’
The Smashing Pumpkins today announced their North American arena tour with special guests Jane’s Addiction. Produced by Live Nation, the 32-date SPIRITS ON FIRE TOUR will commence in October including UBS Arena at Belmont Park on Friday, October 14. Both bands revealed the exciting news live this morning exclusively on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show. Pre-sales begin on Thursday, May 12 from 10am local. General on-sale […]
LISTEN: Viagra Boys Share Crushing New Single “Troglodyte”
Stockholm post-punk band V**gra Boys (**=ia for spam) return this week with new single “Troglodyte” from their recently announced album Cave World out July 8th via YEAR0001. Setting the tone thematically and sonically for the rest of the album, “Troglodyte” is a driving and upbeat exploration into the chaos and confusion of current events through the comparison of modern man with […]
WATCH: Parquet Courts Perform Smokin’ Performance of “Walking At A Downtown Pace” on ‘Kimmel’
Parquet Courts, fresh off their recent U.S. tour, performed the Sympathy For Life standout, “Walking At A Downtown Pace” last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. This performance proves why frontman Andrew Savage has one of the coolest vocal deliveries this side of Britt Daniel. Later this month, Parquet Courts will embark on a full European […]
LISTEN: On “Star” Clay Orange Stuns Via Psych Alt-Country Charm
Clay Orange has been crafting his unique sound for his whole adult life. As a busking musician living a transient life moving all across Canada working odd jobs, performing small gigs in run-down bars, living hand to mouth, and taking in this Northern continent in all of its extremes from the road.He’s putting a fresh […]
LISTEN: Beck Pete Drops Catchy Pop Grooves Via “April Fools in February”
Beck Pete‘s latest single “April Fools in February” is a tongue-in-cheek mid-tempo indie-pop wish that love could cure all that ails you while knowing all along that’s not always the case. Set to a cinematic video of Pete in a hotel room trying to make sense of what went wrong while playing out a disheveled scene […]
ALBUM PREMIERE: Joshua Dylan Balis Lets Cinematic Songcraft Shine on ‘We’re On Fire’
Joshua Dylan Balis vividly recalls the winter morning he stepped out of a shower in his 16th-floor Dallas apartment and heard sirens converging on the street below. He went to the living room window — a wall of glass — and saw only black smoke, so he threw on some clothes and flew down those […]
Chicago Soul Jazz Collective Teams with Vocalist Dee Alexander for Ebullient ‘On the Way to Be Free’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
The Chicago Soul Jazz Collective with the city’s own grand dame of jazz Dee Alexander waste no time in rousing us with the opening track “Mama Are We There Yet?” from the band’s third album, sustaining the bristling energy throughout On the Way to Be Free. The seven-piece band is co-led by principal writer and […]
Wannabe Reviews Hans Gruber and the Die Hards’ ‘With a Vengeance’
In the latest Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle offers his illustrated commentary on With a Vengeance, the new album from Hans Gruber and the Die Hards, in his signature six-panel comic strip form. Click on the image for full resolution (best viewed on desktop):
Wilco Share New Song “Tired of Taking It Out ON You” & Announce North American Tour
Wilco’s new album, Cruel Country, is out May 27th via dBpm Records. Today, they release a new single, “Tired Of Taking It Out On You,” and announce a North American tour, on sale Friday, May 13th at 10am local time. Additionally, Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival is right around the corner, May 27-29 at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA. For the first […]
LISTEN: Night Moves Share Soaring New Single “Feel Another Day”
Today, the Minneapolis-based quartet Night Moves release “Feel Another Day,” a beautifully built song filled with three-part harmonies, roving pedal steel and ethereal string synths about “being a sad bastard, bloated and alone in the haze, and losing your love over and over again,” says John Pelant, lead vocalist and guitarist. Pelant continues, “A well-constructed song does most of the […]
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Billy Strings, War on Drugs, Spoon, Goose Amongst Austin City Limits Festival 2022 Acts
Red Hot Chili Peppers, P!nk, The Chicks, Kacey Musgraves, SZA, Flume, Paramore, and Lil Nas X will headline the 2022 Austin City Limits Music Festival, along with performances from Phoenix (Weekend Two only), Diplo, ZHU, Lil Durk (Weekend One only), Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats, Billy Strings, James Blake (Weekend One only), Wallows, Jazmine […]
VIDEO PREMIERE: Space Flight Elevates With Intricate & Expressive “Do You Dream In The Daylight”
Space Fight was formed by 3 friends (2 Brits, 1 American) in a London pub over a pint back in 2010. Not long after, they appeared at the Camden Crawl festival, toured the UK a few times, (once as support for Ra Ra Riot), were featured on BBC6 Music, and signed a record deal for their debut […]
The Black Keys Tap Back Into Early Blues Rock Mode Via ‘Drop Out Boogie’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
In the past two decades, we’ve had at least three individuals raise the profile of Akron, Ohio. Basketball star LeBron James has made the phrase “just a kid from Akron” almost colloquial. The other two “Akron Kids” are the six-time Grammy-winning duo The Black Keys, who by the way, like James, have relocated from the […]
Lyle Lovett Returns Large Band & Trademark Eclectic Mix on ’12th of June’ (ALBUM REVIEW
Several years ago, this writer was in a conversation with the late Stephen Bruton who pondered why we couldn’t hear artists such as Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Chick Corea, Doc Watson, and British bands on the same radio show. Lyle Lovett is another Texan who grew up listening to music in that eclectic […]