Archive: 2022

Zion I Kings spent many formative years individually honing thier crafts before forming collectively. Their work has spanned many waves within the genre to create a solid and unique modern roots sound that is infectious, warm, melodic and steady in any sound system. Collectively they have produced for many great artists of our day including […]

Yes, my friends, The Darkness survived the unrelenting pandemic, released a killer new record, hit the road, and proved once again that they can still bring it. And on Sunday night (4/24), the band wrapped its tour across the US in support of their latest offering, Motorheart, which may rival their debut, Permission to Land, […]

Dana Fuchs is a singer-songwriter who came to the attention of a lot of fans when she played Janis Joplin in the off-Broadway musical Love, Janis. You don’t have to listen to much of her music to know that she was the perfect selection to play Joplin. She has a raspy voice that is tailor-made […]

The band NITE has recently released their second album, Voices of the Kronian Moon, and their first with Season of Mist, and are currently on tour supporting their release. Loosely identifying as Blackened Heavy Metal, NITE has moved further away from horror imagery with their second album, but early adopters should feel reassured that they […]

Few would have the courage to do what Wesley Dean did. Dean (AKA Wes Car) was riding high on the Australian music charts with two hits singles and performing on the country’s biggest stages after winning Australian Idol. Rather bask in that success, Dean instead ratcheted up his confidence level along with huge bursts of […]

Sometimes, you have to explore the most painful moments of your life to release your most inspiring contemplations about it. For musician Nick Leng, this came after an emotional breakup, apartment fire, and subsequent loss of a friend, which led him on a journey through wistfulness, isolation, and ultimately, a renewal of spirit. His diligence […]

Joe Vann’s new record is a literal and spiritual homecoming. The singer-songwriter’s debut solo LP, Found In The Smoke, is an intimate rummage through his past: it weds the freewheeling experimental aesthetics of his beloved indie band, From Indian Lakes, with the music traditions on which he was reared while growing up in a trailer […]

The Flaming Lips continued their bubblicious stage theatrics at Denver’s Mission Ballroom on April 25th. The Wayne Coyne-led band played a list of well-known and not-so-well-known songs, including “Enthusiasm for Life Defeats Existential Fear” and “Happy Birthday” to Micah Nelson of opener Particle Kid. Photos by Todd Radunsky.  

LP brought their fierce alt-pop to St Paul’s Palace Theatre on April 23rd, proving that showmanship, boisterous vocals, and an energetic song display make LP one of live music’s more vibrant artists. Photos by Billy Briggs.  

Yep Roc Records will release Colder Streams, The Sadies’ long-awaited and highly anticipated 11th studio album produced by Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry on July 22nd. Watch the lyric video for “Cut Up High and Dry,” the third single from the forthcoming album, below.. Recorded between 2019 and 2021 at Skybarn in Montreal, Canada, Colder Streams features 11 original compositions engineered and mixed […]

Riffing on crunching chorus, ferocious brevity, and an irritated kick prove The Wilful Boys certainly deserve a place amongst the punk acclaim of recent upstarts IDLES, Viagra Boys, and Turnstile. Forming in Brooklyn in 2014, The Wilful Boys’ inception began after a chance meeting at the now defunct Cake Shop, a venue that would become […]

With the haze of a certain band’s Madison Square Garden residency still floating over New York City, those in the know gathered on Sunday night (4/24/22) in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood, on the rooftop of the psychedelic, Turkish-themed venue The Sultan Room for what was to be the weekend’s hottest aftershow. Taper’s Choice, a new jam […]

To understand the far-reaching appeal of megastar Trombone Shorty, (AKA Troy Andrews) one need only take it from an eight-year-old, this writer’s grandson, who innocently asked about my awareness of the NOLA icon.  Struck by this and responding to my curiosity, he later revealed that during Black History month his third-grade class was learning about […]

Corb Lund is no stranger to a cover song. Before his stellar 2020 LP of all originals, Agricultural Tragic, he put out an eclectically brilliant EP singing songs by everyone from AC/DC and Nancy Sinatra to Billy Joel and Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show. Another covers album so soon after the last one is […]

The storytelling spirit is as old and deep as Appalachia itself, and as a child of the West Virginia hills perhaps it was inevitable that Drew Cable would become the natural born storyteller of the songs on his debut EP, The Devil Ain’t Done. It’s also not surprising that his own musical journey has had […]

In the latest Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle offers his illustrated commentary on Bronco, the new album from Orville Peck, in his signature six-panel comic strip form. Click on the image for full resolution (best viewed on desktop):

On Saturday, April 23rd, at The Brooklyn Bowl Philadelphia, British Hard Rockers and Glam devotees The Darkness entered the home stretch of their North American tour, playing the 33rd of their 34 shows supporting their 2021 album Motorheart. They would conclude on the 24th in Boston with a European tour beginning in June 2022.  All-female […]

Nicky Egan has announced her new full-length This Life, out June 3rd via Transistor Sound/Colemine Records. The announcement comes with the album’s title track — “This song, for me, represents the journey that we experience going from life on this plane to the next, and the beautiful, heartbreaking, incredible transition in between,” Egan told Jazziz. […]

moe. has announced a short run of performances for the remainder of 2022, featuring special guests Nate Wilson on keys (Percy Hill) and Suke Cerulo on guitar (Schleigho). The announcement follows the release of a message to fans yesterday, in which the band addressed the condition of guitarist Chuck Garvey, who suffered a stroke in […]