Del McCoury Band, Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, Yonder Mountain String Band Top Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival Lineup
Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival returns to the idyllic grounds of Walsh Farm in Oak Hill, NY for another unforgettable retreat of music, magic, and memories July 17-21, featuring Del McCoury Band, Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, Yonder Mountain String Band, The Steeldrivers, and many more. Dry Branch Fire Squad, the festival’s longtime host outfit, will […]
Anders Osborne Announces New LP ‘Picasso’s Villa’, Shares Video for “Bewildered”
Award-winning singer, songwriter, guitarist, and performer Anders Osborne announced today his new album Picasso’s Villa will release on April 26th through 5th Ward/Missing Piece Records. The 17th full-length from the veteran Swedish-born, New Orleans-based artist, Osborne described Picasso’s Villa as a condensed story about living in America between 2018-2021; the fears, confusion, deep joy, and […]
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IDLES Craft More Daring Post Punk Escapades On ‘TANGK’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
Post-punk warriors IDLES are entering an interesting crossroads in their careers. After garnering acclaim from not only critics and fans worldwide but from prestigious arenas like the Grammy’s, the band is forced to ask a question we all come across at some point; what’s next? Does a band with such uniqueness continue to revel in […]
The High Hawks Led By Vince Herman, Tim Carbone Mold Shape Shifting Americana On ‘Mother Nature’s Show’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
The High Hawks recorded their sophomore album in Minnesota at historic Pachyderm Studios, close to the Mississippi River and Highway 61. What would roll out on Mother Nature’s Show would be a journey through the heartlands of the USA, from the snowy north to the sunny south. The band, Vince Herman guitar, Tim Carbone fiddle/guitars, […]
Golden Age Thursday: Digable Planets “9th Wonder” Live On ‘Jon Stewart Show’ 1994
It is hard to argue that any era of music was more exciting and groundbreaking than the East Coast Hip-hop scene in the ’90s. Every city from New York City to Philadelphia to Maryland had a hand in cultivating the unique sound that inspired this column in the first place. While hip-hop is far from […]
Sonic Youth Flex Its Experimental Side On Long Out-Of-Print Bootleg ‘Walls Have Ears’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
Back in 1986, the de facto European manager of Sonic Youth, Paul Smith compiled and sold this “bootleg” presentation of the young NYC-based band. The double live LP contains pieces of Sonic Youth’s 1985 live shows (complete with tuning, and chatter) from their early concerts in England. The band was not happy with this ‘unofficial’ […]
Grateful Dead: Dave’s Picks Volume 49 – Frost Amphitheatre, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA (4/27/85 & 4/28/85) (ALBUM REVIEW)
Dave’s Picks Volume 49 is just the third four-CD set in the ongoing Grateful Dead archive initiative and only the second (besides #36) to contain a pair of complete performances by the iconic band. Marking the approximate halfway point in keyboardist/vocalist Brent Mydland’s decade-plus tenure with the group, these two al fresco concerts from the spring of […]
Hermanos Gutiérrez Announce New Album Sonido Cósmico Out June 14th on Easy Eye Sound
Hermanos Gutiérrez — the Ecuadorian-Swiss sibling duo of Estevan and Alejandro Gutiérrez — have announced that their new album Sonido Cósmico will be released June 14 on Easy Eye Sound. Sonido Cósmico is the follow-up to the brothers’ 2022’s breakout El Bueno Y El Malo, which Rolling Stone said “shimmers with hallucinogenic energy,” led to a Tiny Desk performance, and was named one of the Top […]
Laura Jane Grace Returns to Punk Form with Fun and Adventerous ‘Hole In My Head’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
Against Me may still be on hiatus, but Laura Jane Grace’s latest, Hole In My Head – a brilliant mix of humor, spite and self-preservation – is strong enough to make you forget you were even waiting for a reunion. Her first record since 2021’s At War With The Silverfish, Hole in My Head is […]
Chestnut Grove’s Dee Gerhart and James Daniels on Building a Big Ethereal Sound for ‘Can’t Stand The Music’ (INTERVIEW)
Chestnut Grove is a Philadelphia-based multi-genre Rock band who have been playing together for 12 years, and they recently released their album Can’t Stand The Music. The release followed a ‘Ta-Ta For Now’ tour where the band pulled out all the stops for some mega shows, including big hometown celebrations to finish things off. As […]
METZ Return With New Album ‘Up On Gravity Hill’- Shares Two New Singles “99” and “Entwined (Street Light Buzz)”
On April 12th, METZ will release Up On Gravity Hill, their first album in 4 years, on Sub Pop for the world ex-Canada and in Canada on Dine Alone. The album was engineered by Seth Manchester (Mdou Moctar, Lingua Ignota, Battles, The Body) and features guest performances from Amber Webber of Black Mountain and composer/string arranger […]
The Magnetic Fields Extend ’69 Love Songs’ Anniversary Tour
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of its release, the Magnetic Fields will continue to perform 69 Love Songs—the 3-disc masterwork that marked a significant breakthrough for the American band—in its entirety throughout 2 nights, for the first time in over two decades. Starting in March, the band will perform 69 Love Songs throughout 2024. New dates have been added, in which […]
Grandaddy Keeps It Twangy & Mellow On Chill ‘Blu Wav’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
The first Grandaddy album of new material in over six years, Blu Wav finds Jason Lytle returning to his melancholy indie-rock ways around swelling strings, synths, and dour lyrical observations on life. Blu Wav as a title is a portmanteau of bluegrass and new wave, the two genres Lytle feels currently most at home in. […]
ALO Delivers Big-Time Performance At Santa Cruz’ Cozy Moe’s Alley (SHOW REVIEW/PHOTOS)
If there is one thing that you can hang your hat on, one thing in this world by which you can set your watch it is that ALO will ALWAYS deliver a solid performance. By rights, as they wheeled into Santa Cruz’s Moe’s Alley this past Friday, not only was it their 17th consecutive Tour […]
30 Years Ago Today- Pavement Solidifies Indie Rock Icon Status With Dynamic ‘Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain’
Anyone in the orbit of music understands the pressures of a sophomore album. They’ve been discussed to a pint of nausea in these retrospectives and not for no reason. Exploring the transition from a successful debut to an experimental sophomore is one of the most exciting occurrences in all of music. Seeing a young band […]
VIDEO PREMIERE: On “North” Babes In Canyon Shine With Illuminating Indie Folk
Pacific Northwest outfit Babes In Canyon produces an overwhelming atmospheric folk sound that mixes the vitality of Andrew Bird with the pop spectrum of Mt. Joy on their new EP Year To Live. As one of the founding members of the band Kuinka, frontman Nathan Hamer honed his skills as a singer-songwriter for several years […]
Weirdo Wednesday: Devo “Uncontrollable Urge” Live
For all you hopeless romantics out there, on this special Valentine’s Day edition of Weirdo Wednesday, we give you the gift of perhaps the weirdest band of the entire 1980s (which is saying something), the legendary Devo. And while “romantic” is probably not the first thing that comes to mind when people think of Devo, […]
Blackberry Smoke Embraces Its True Singer-Songwriter Perspective With ‘Be Right Here’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
If anything, Blackberry Smoke is malleable. The descriptors of southern rockers, country rockers, blues rockers, roots rockers, or flat-out rockers would shortchange them. They’ve proven to be all of those and more as their latest, Be Right Here, proves. It continues to reveal the impact that producer Dave Cobb (Jason Isbell, Chris Stapleton, Brandi Carlisle) […]