Archive: 2023

It’s likely that if you spend any time listening to the type of somber introspective Elliot Smith-Esque indie-folk Straight White Teeth is putting out you have the deep cut of heartbreak. From the opening notes of “I Cut My Fingers Off” Patrick McGuire’s chunky but gently reverberated guitar begins to drag you into the sweet […]

Moonlighting as Oliver Ghoul: A self-taught, self-produced, bass-driven groove machine. There’s a good chance that’s not how you’d expect to describe your local hospital’s psychiatrist, but if you live in Montreal, you might be wrong. With his debut release Glue; one-man powerhouse Oliver Gil shows just how ghoulishly funky he can get. Gil admits himself, […]

Pantera has announced their long-awaited return to the stage. They will be touring North America this summer with Lamb of God as special guests.

The Byrds’ lush vocal harmonies, arguably as significant to their sound as the chiming twelve-string guitar, are distinguished in large measure by Crosby’s high harmonies. Hear his voice keen through “5D,” and while doing so, note that his rhythm guitar is a driving force of the performance: the man was as formidable in that instrumental role as his peers of the era John Lennon or Steve Miller.

Anything In Return was released on January 22, 2013 and the songs contained on this album would introduce us to the limitless potential of Toro Y Moi.

The Oakland, CA-based Orchestra Gold combine afrobeat with psych rock, reggae and more on their third album Medicine. Singing in the Bambara language, the band delivers unique soundscapes over the course of these eight tracks. The seven-piece fuse a sixties garage/psych rock sound onto the afrobeat formula with mixed results.

Eric D. Johnson’s Fruit Bats will release a new album, A River Running to Your Heart, on April 14 via Merge Records (PRE-ORDER). A new track “Rushin’ River Valley is available now, along with the previously released single “Waking Up in Los Angeles”. Check em both out below. “Over the years there’s been a lot of […]

Another gracefully chaotic track from one of Philadelphia’s hardest touring bands. Grocer is well known for their pop-aware songwriting with bouts of burn-it-all-down dissonance and layers of blissfully effect-driven guitars. On their new track “Downtown Side”, vocalist Nicholas Rahn paints a picture of an unfamiliar condition with strokes of humor, storytelling, and introspection. The rhythm section holds […]

 The Sadies have shared the official video for “More Alone,” featured on their critically acclaimed 11th studio album Colder Streams, and have announced more U. S. tour dates.  Filmed, directed, and edited by Rick White, the “More Alone” video features live footage filmed and recorded at HIllside Inside Festival 2022 at the River Run Centre in Guelph, ON, on […]

Caroline Rose has announced The Art of Forgetting, their new album out March 24th on New West Records, and presents a new single/video, “Miami.”

Today, January 19, the music world lost one of its longest-burning and outspoken voices. David Crosby, the acclaimed singer/songwriter, and founder of The Byrds and Crosby, Stills, and Nash has passed away.

On his new LP Texas Sex, Seattle multi-instrumentalist songwriter Caspian Coberly re-contextualizes guitar-heavy rhythm and blues music for the modern listener, through a haze of intense surrealist groove and primal emotion.

Scott Tournet is back with his ravishing new single “Fever” (below), a dense arrangement that builds on itself in a bluesy rock rush.

After a quick run of dates supporting labelmate Amigo The Devil, Atlanta rock four-piece Brother Hawk are gearing up to release their upcoming new album The Dreamer, which will surface on March 31st through Liars Club. The Dreamer was recorded with producer Tom Tapley (Blackberry Smoke, Mastodon) at West End Sound in Atlanta, GA and […]

Glide is premiering the album Purple, Blue & Crimson in its entirety. Fans of All Them Witches, Howlin’ Rain and Hawkwind will find this psych flourishes a welcoming listen

Today, marking a full circle moment and kicking off a very special 25th anniversary, California rock band ALO have announced their first full-length studio LP in eight years and ninth overall studio release, Silver Saturdays due out March 3, including a limited run of vinyl, via Brushfire Records and available for pre-order now.

Green River Festival is pleased to announce that 2023’s festival will include Little Feat, The Wood Brothers, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Sierra Ferrell, Sammy Rae & The Friends, Cory Wong  (Vulfpeck) and more. More bands will be announced in the coming weeks. The beloved genre-spanning festival celebrates 36 years this June and will return to the Franklin County Fairgrounds in Greenfield, MA. Early Bird tickets, parking passes, and camping passes are on sale now.

Brighter, more polished and more overtly comedic than the haunting noir that is Warren Zevon’s Asylum Records debut, Excitable Boy is still a far cry from the overly-romanticized California pop-rock of forty-five years ago.