Archive: 2022

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

On Monday, April 11th, West London, singer/songwriter Arlo Parks brought her soulful and poetic pop sounds to Austin, TX for a taping of Austin City Limits. Read a recap of the performance.

Pickathon has announced the full lineup for the upcoming 2022 festival, running August 4-7 at Pendarvis Farm in Happy Valley, Oregon, just outside Portland. As a deep curation festival, Pickathon’s lineup reflects new movements in music, including cutting-edge jazz from British artists Sons of Kemet, Nubya Garcia and American jazz icon Nate Smith; fast rising indie artists like Goth Babe, Faye Webster, […]

Today, Bay Area-based Monophonics released “Love You Better,” the second single from their upcoming full-length Sage Motel (out May 13th 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 […]

Brothers Joshua and Jeremiah Zimmerman and their band The Silent Comedy should be headlining stages the size of Avett Brothers and Mumford Sons, who at similar times a decade-plus pass were riding the wave of the new Americana movement that brought new instruments and voices to the mainstream. The band enjoyed years of touring, performing […]

Drive-By Truckers have announced the release of their 14th studio album, Welcome 2 Club XIII, due via ATO Records on Friday, June 3. Pre-orders are available now. Welcome 2 Club XIII is heralded by today’s premiere of its swinging title track, “Welcome 2 Club XIII,” available for streaming and download; the track – which pays homage to the Muscle […]

Hot on the heels of the release of his first full-length solo album, You Belong There, Daniel Rossen was in fine form on Saturday evening April 2nd as he returned to Brooklyn for a sold-out performance at Bushwick venue Brooklyn Made. The sixteen-song set showcased the Grizzly Bear member’s formidable guitar abilities and distinctive voice […]

Smith/McKay All Day is a genre-defying two-man band from Missoula, MT. They may look and sometimes act the part, but they’re not your eccentric cousin and his buddy plunking away on instruments next to the shed while frying pork chops on the hot plate nestled between them. No, sir. These guys are bonafide. Jimmy Smith […]

This duo of trombonist, singer, and songwriter Natalie Cressman and guitarist, composer, and vocalist Ian Faquini is relatively rare in terms of instrumental pairings, but Auburn Whisper is their second, following 2019’s successful Setting Rays of Summer.  This project, recorded during the pandemic months, gave them plenty of time to develop more expansive arrangements that blend traditional Brazilian […]

Vibraphonist and composer Joel Ross exhibits even more steadfast confidence on his third Blue Note release, Parable of the Poet, by unveiling practically a completely new eight-piece band, called the Parables. While Ross delivered his first two highly acclaimed albums with a quintet, this new group puts even more emphasis on his compositional style where […]

Tipitina’s Record Club – an exclusive subscription service from Tipitina’s, the legendary New Orleans nightclub owned and operated by Galactic – has unveiled its latest limited edition vinyl offering in Etta James’ Your Good Thing: Live At Tipitina’s, available on 180g, custom-colored vinyl only via subscription HERE. Shipping begins June/July 2022. Produced by Galactic’s Ben […]

Forged in the warm heart of the Cosmos and spending millennia traveling the ethereal plane for sounds and rhythms, Cosmic Eyes and the Colliders have landed on Earth in 2022 to bring their psychedelic, fuzzed-out rock sounds to their new followers. The future leaders of your new cult. “Castle Moon” (below) is pretty much exactly […]

The Henrys are a Toronto-based ‘nearly-instrumental’ group that performs as a quartet, or quintet, but records with a larger stable of players. Led by Don Rooke, since 1990, the band’s goal has always been to compose, record, and perform original music that has no obvious genre but draws on a variety of styles in an […]

Katrina Ford has appeared on a wide range of records over the past 30 years, including starring and supporting roles for TV on the Radio, UNKLE, Future Islands, and Foals. Not to mention the many bands she’s led, starting with the spastic wrecking crew Jaks. (Think: Latter-day Daughters, with hold-nothing-back hints of The Jesus Lizard […]

Today, Eddie Vedder announced that the sixth annual Ohana Festival, which he founded, will take place from September 30th-October 2nd at Doheny State Beach in Dana Point, CA.  Headliners on the beachfront stage include Eddie Vedder, Stevie Nicks, and P!nk. The weekend will also feature performances by Jack White, Khruangbin, St. Vincent, Brittany Howard, Billy Strings, Dermot Kennedy, Manchester Orchestra, Grouplove, The Revivalists, Broken Social Scene, Bomba Estéreo, Inhaler, Gang Of Youths, St. Paul […]

The Black Crowes announced the release of a new, Amazon Original EP, 1972. A tribute to the 50th anniversary of some of the best rock-and-roll during its prime, the forthcoming project was recorded at the Sunset Sound in Los Angeles in January 2022 and is a collection of six songs that were specifically selected through […]

Put together a band of diverse and disparate backgrounds that combine jazz, punk rock, hip-hop, shoegaze, and electronica and you have the collective known as High Pulp. Were it not for the headline, you might first guess the London scene but the group hails from Seattle. Mostly they are DIYers, not formally trained musicians, who […]

Austin-based alt-folk quartet Good Looks have been playing around their home base for a couple of years now but are finally releasing their debut album Bummer Year. The quartet is led by Tyler Jordan on rhythm guitar and lead vocals, with Jake Ames on lead guitar, Robert Cherry on bass guitar, and Phillip Dunne on […]