Archive: 2022

Oakland songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Caitlin Cobb-Vialet creates immediate intimacy in the opening moments of her upcoming debut album Endless Void, arriving via War Chant Records on May 6th, 2022. Immersed in what she describes as the “busy-ness” of college, performing and composing as part of several productions at once, Cobb-Vialet’s musical theater background and love of […]

Born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, Marcus Walton was exposed early to the music of Garth Brooks, MxPx, and Björk, and has been trying to split the difference ever since. With music that has been described as “seminal,” “fun,” “too quiet,” “note-heavy,” “crybaby,” and “very upsetting,” =Walton has truly broken the mold and repeatedly forgotten […]

The Who appeared Friday night on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in a taped performance from their 2022 gig from the Teenage Cancer Trust concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London, U.K. The band, who famously penned the lyric “I hope I die before I get old,” and now includes only singer Roger Daltry (78) and guitarist […]

Recorded following a period of “you gotta be f#$kin kidding me, Tennessee Stiffs’ new third album, Dearly Departed, is a cautionary tale of rock & roll—an epic, semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story about a beleaguered band in the Americana trenches, alternately squealing and sputtering down the Interstate on a good-intentions-paved tour to hell and back. While some of Dearly […]

The Bay Area band Moonalice has been operating for about fifteen years, but in 2019, it got an infusion of new members, expanding them to a ten piece and making them more of a musical collective. The experience of Covid cut into their plans for extensive touring but did bring them closer as a community […]

Born and bred in the North Carolina Piedmont, Daniel Ayers is an award-winning songwriter, middle school teacher, tenth-generation Tar Heel, Nobel Laureate, and liar. At an early age, he was told by his mother that he could be whatever he wanted in life. She has since lived to regret this. Anything I have to say […]

Brittany Ann Tranbaugh (pronounced TRAN-baw) is a singer/songwriter based in Philadelphia, PA. Originally from the Lehigh Valley area in PA, she kicked off her music career as a teenager playing at Godfrey Daniels, one of the country’s only remaining bona fide folk listening rooms. She has since performed all over the US and Canada in […]

Wilco performed last night (April 15) at NYC’s United Palace Theatre, the first of six shows celebrating the 20th anniversary of the release of their seminal album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, but the short show resulted in many fans sharing on social media their disappointment with the set. The band, accompanied by the all-female Aizuri (string) Quartet, […]

Kurt Vile – “Mount Airy Hill (Way Gone)” 2018’s Bottle It In sounded like an album recorded on tour, a stop-gap which, like the Courtney Barnett collab Lotta Sea Lice, helped quell anticipation and lighten the tension of a follow-up to Kurt Vile’s surprise success on B’lieve I’m Goin Down. (Watch My Moves) is only […]

Little Feat’s Time Loves a Hero was released forty-five years ago (4/15/77) and, strictly on its own terms, it’s a fine record. Yet with the benefit of extended hindsight nearing a half-century, it does sound markedly different because it so clearly reflects the band’s (d)evolution. Internal friction had been reportedly plaguing the group since 1974’s […]

IDLES appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Thursday night (Spoon originally was on the schedule) and turned in a TV-ready, blistering performance of “Crawl!” IDLES, who are appearing today at Coachella — explaining why their guest spot on Colbert was so primed for the cameras — rammed Crawl! down viewers’ throats in a performance reminiscent […]

Texas singer Barton Stanley David’s new album Crest out April 22nd, 2022 on Kenshire Recorda is a study in shifting definitions of adulthood, class, community, spirituality, and ultimately, shared perseverance. Anchored by BSD’s arresting, melodic voice and widescreen mixes by Grammy-winning engineer Dave Schiffman (Tom Petty, Adele, The Killers), Crest has an organic grandeur that […]

I love a rock song that manages to fit almost all of rock and roll history into a few minutes. Luckily for me, Pittsburgh, PA legends The Redlines are back with another rock and roll anthem for the impending summer! On their newest single “Runnin’ With The Pack,” the band masters that mid-tempo, nearly spoken-word […]

If there was ever a great time to use the term “power pop”, it would be for describing the new single “Ride”, from Manchester England’s Findlay. From beginning to end, infectious fuzzed-out hooks and instantly catchy vocals are deployed in a nonstop torrent of groove. Throw in some quirky synth sounds and a well-placed breather of a […]

Ted Tyro is a Louisville, Kentucky band formed around the tape machine recordings of Bart Swift.The band (featuring members of Wombo and Murals) plays bouncing, bass-led pop-rock reminiscent of Talking Heads, Deerhunter, and Omni. Dive into the guided panic attack that is “How Can” (below), the latest winding single from analog garage rockers Ted Tyro. The unassuming, […]

The NYC rocksteady-reggae band The Frightnrs have announced a raw new soulful album ALWAYS out May 27 on Daptone Records Before The Frightnrs singer Dan Kleinʼs unfortunate passing at age 33 from ALS, the band agreed to keep a promise he asked of them – continue making music together. Part of that promise has been made manifest […]

On the very aptly titled A White Album, folkie Rain Perry addresses race head on – especially her own. With the first song, “Melody and Jack,” Perry retells a family story about a taboo interracial crush in the mid-50s. But it’s the very next song, the funk-tinged track “The Money,” where Perry is really able […]

Sonic Youth has released a live recording from  Kyiv, Ukraine April 14, 1989 on Bandcamp to benefit World Central Kitchen and relief to Ukraine. Riding on the wave of the critical success of Daydream Nation, Sonic Youth’s first foray into the former USSR came in April of 1989 with shows in Vilnius, Leningrad, Moscow and Kyiv, the first […]