Archive: 2023

In Vinyl Lives we spotlight and profile record stores around the country who offer music lovers an experience that goes beyond an iTunes purchase or a Spotify playlist. Vinyl has found a new resurgence in recent years and the good folks behind independent record stores are on the front line, directly responsible for curating a […]

Mile Twelve is back in motion. From the first manic, dissonant downbeat of their virtuosic new record, Close Enough to Hear (due out February 3rd), you’ll discover a band that is ready to explode from a restless pandemic-induced hiatus. You’ll notice the presence of two new members: fiddler and vocalist Ella Jordan and mandolinist Korey […]

ISTA is a 7-piece post-punk/ psychedelic rock group from the West Coast. The band’s new single, “TRUE” was inspired by a 70’s tune, and has that perfectly gritty vintage/fuzz sound us audiofiles so crave.  “TRUE” begins with distorted guitar and frisky drums in a juicy 30-second intro. Then, we swiftly shift the focal point to […]

Once branded musical insurrectionists when they burst on the scene in the late sixties, the two surviving members of the Art Ensemble of Chicago (AEC) original quintet, deliver an all-encompassing resurrectionist statement by expanding to a chamber orchestra on this live 2-CD recording, The Sixth Decade, From Paris to Paris.

Sad Girls Aquatics Club is a synth-pop duo from Pittsburgh PA consisting of Marie Mashyna and Chelsea Rumbaugh. They met in college and started their first music project together in 2016 called Side Eye. “Who’s Your Witness” comes from their second EP “Easier” which was recorded at a remote cabin in the woods during a […]

Led by eloquently expressive classic style fingerpicking, “Skyscraper” from Louisville-based folk artist Jack Keyes brings to mind the more minimalistic side of Andrew Bird’s catalog. Managing to create a surprisingly full sound with a small number of instruments and production, Keyes pays close attention to detail on every small part to create a breadth of subtle color and […]

The Sunday Mourners’ latest single, “You’re Down, You’re Out”, is a beautiful homage to the heyday of sunny Southern California rock and roll only with a slightly harder-edged east coast approach. Combining the embryonic stage of Parquet Courts with the Velvet Underground and Bowie, “You’re Down, You’re Out” defies the term “throwback” by uniquely melting together […]

Katherine Paterson is a Dallas-based, indie-folk singer-songwriter. Her passion for writing songs as gifts for far-flung companions transformed into writing songs as companions for all kinds of life moments. Her debut EP, Bloom, wades through loss, heartbreak, and grief and emerges dizzy but standing on its own two feet. “Bloom”, from Katherine Paterson, off the debut EP […]

Collected up of glitch, toned down trip-hip, and strangeness in its most pure forms, Occurrence has gelled up its finest moment yet on the electropop banger “Fudge.” The band knocks on the doors of Phantogram and Glass Animals to mold an efficient concoction of wavy indie that appeals to both the indie and pop worlds, […]

With over half-century hindsight and given the tumult within the ranks of The Byrds circa 1967, it’s a wonder they completed an album at all, much less one as superb as The Notorious Byrd Brothers

Umphrey’s McGee kicked off their umXXV Anniversary Tour this past Thursday at Washington D.C.’s 9:30 Club.

The National are stirring the pot to kick off 2023. The band has started teasing their 9th LP via cryptic social media posts and the video posted to their Twitter today has been the most revealing of them all.

Galactic has shared “Ready For Me” (Feat. Cimafunk and Anjelika “Jelly” Joseph), available now at all DSPs and streaming services.

Glide is premiering the catchy “The Little Man in the Boat,” which might very well be the biggest hook he’s ever composed.

Price has always been shifting, yet Strays feels like a clear breaking point where she is shaking off labels and trying to find a new/true voice.  

Blasting out of speakers with an intensity, angst, and raw rock n’ roll sweetness that can only come from a 17-year-old with a loud guitar, “Forget It”, from Galena Illinois’ Hayes Noble is a fresh sounding nod to the likes of late 80’s post-punk greats like Sonic Youth and Husker Dü with plenty of originality […]

The dynamic range of Jeff’s musicianship was all the more miraculous to hear in the spontaneity of the moments he was on stage. Here are five instances where the author was graced with sheer guitar prowess..