Archive: 2024

In our current climate of constant climactic events where it seems like we have yet to process crucial matters before ten more join the fray, it can feel impossible to resolve our feelings on issues and enact real change on them. We constantly find ourselves at seemingly impassable crossroads that just lead to more impassable […]

As depicted on the double-live album of 1974, The Gregg Allman Tour, the Southern icon’s first road excursion as a solo artist was a most lavish affair. Besides featuring a backing band that included Brothers Jaimoe on drums and Chuck Leavell on keyboards (plus members of the opening act Cowboy), a full complement of horns, plus […]

A genre like punk can conjure up many images for many different people. Regardless of the band, tempo, sound, or city you think of when you hear the name “punk”, there is one universal truth that strings all of these different subgenres together. As long as you can play in your style and make it […]

Accorded increasingly greater recognition by design over thirty-five years, The Replacements’ Don’t Tell A Soul is no longer their most overlooked album. This concerted effort thus renders the cover photo a decoy of intent: a blurry black and white photo of guitarist and chief songwriter Paul Westerberg depicts him with a finger to his lips as if acting out […]

Dead & Company has set a residency at SPHERE in Las Vegas consisting of eighteen shows over six consecutive weeks from May 16 through June 22.  The Sphere residency will feature never-before-seen visual storytelling from Dead & Company, providing fans with the ultimate connection to the music through these innovative and immersive shows.  Each weekend’s three performances will feature […]

The Wu-Tang Clan universe is a large and intimidating one. The number of side projects and solo LPs within The Wu’s orbit is astronomical, and we’re thankful for it. The number of illustrious careers born from RZA’s drum machine is a miraculous feat of modern art that deserves any accolades thrown its way. Thankfully, Wu […]

Today, Columbia Records releases Billy Joel’s first new single in decades, “Turn the Lights Back On,”. Available on all DSPs and pressed on limited-edition 7” vinyl, fans can listen & purchase HERE. The single comes alongside a lyric video on Billy’s official YouTube channel – watch HERE. “Turn the Lights Back On” was produced by GRAMMY-nominated songwriter and producer Freddy Wexler and […]

The energy and moment in punk that Green Day captured on Dookie needs to be more than studied, it needs to be felt. While the trio has gone on to have a commercially and creatively successful career, you will always find yourself returning to Green Day’s roots. 30 years ago today (February 1), Green Day […]

We Belong, is the eighth studio album from Sinkane, a band led by multi-instrumentalist Ahmed Gallab. And like much of Sinkane’s previous releases, it resists genre. It’s pop. It’s funk. It’s electronic. It blends the gritty punk newness of a 70s and 80s New York with the steady, foundational soul of the rhythms of his […]

Award-winning singer-songwriter-guitarist Sarah King makes her long-awaited full-length solo debut with When It All Goes Down, exploring life’s seismic shifts via her own singular strain of Gothic Americana. The album will drop on March 29th. Produced, engineered, and arranged by David Baron (The Lumineers, Noah Kahan, Darren Kiely), When It All Goes Down sees King […]

Few debut albums carry this much excitement with them. The Last Dinner Party has seemingly done everything a young band could hope for, major co-signs, playlist placements, and the attention of just about every blog. The last thing on their youthful band’s to-do list? Release music to back up the hype. Normally, we would see […]

On his solo albums for the Sub-Pop label, (2011’s Several Shades of Why, 2014’s Tied To A Star and 2018’s Elastic Days) J Mascis has gone the basic acoustic guitar route, focusing on stripped-down songs and tones. However, for his newest solo effort, What Do We Do Now, the sonic structure is altered by drums, […]

In the latest Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle offers his illustrated commentary on Halfsies, the new album from Americana-folk artist Lizzie No, in his signature six-panel comic strip form. Click on the image for full resolution (best viewed on desktop):

On Matt Mitchell Music Company’s latest effort, Obvious Euphoria, you can’t help but hear the ghosts of John Prine and Jerry Jeff Walker throughout. Mitchell’s voice sounds more than a little like Prine’s and his songwriting, like Prine and Walker before him, has that same knack of mixing wry humor with sadness evenly. The sly […]

Do you ever get “Bored”? Iggy Pop sure did, at least back in the day. So bored that he felt compelled to write a pretty amusing/catchy song about the very subject way back in 1979. And while the song itself is pretty entertaining in its own right, this performance on an Australian TV show from […]

Having witnessed the Vijay Iyer Trio twice in the past couple of years, what stands out is the transportive experience, the memories of shifting moods and riveting intensity. To be fair, the two performances were with drummer Jeremy Dutton, not the acclaimed creative music scene leader, Tyshawn Sorey, but both featured the Malaysian/Australian in-demand bassist […]

Casinos are all around us in our daily lives – even if we don’t notice them. There is probably a casino on your high street, the person next to you on the train might be playing a game on Virgin Games like jackpot king or you might be watching a show set in a casino.  […]

Over the past two-plus decades, singer-songwriter Rod Picott has consistently delivered insightful and often searing work across fifteen albums, three published books, and countless shows. He’s back with Starlight Tour, like his last few albums, rendered by a small band and helmed by Neilson Hubbard, his go-to producer. Some may interpret the title as a […]