Josh Abbott Band Stick to Standard Country Sounds on ‘Somewhere Down The Road’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
The minute-long instrumental with the bellowing cello and eerie cymbals that opens Somewhere Down The Road, along with the song that follows, “Astronaut,” belies the real sound of the rest of the album. Rather than an experimental take on the country sound that the Josh Abbott Band has been playing for the past decade and […]
Flaming Lips, Sylvan Esso, The Pharcyde, Tanya Tucker Lead 2024 Pure Imagination Festival Lineup
The female-led and curated, all-ages destination festival Pure Imagination has announced the Saturday line-up for its third edition, set to take place May 17 & 18, 2024. This year’s festival is headlined by The Flaming Lips, who are celebrating the 20th Anniversary of their tour for Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, as well as critically […]
Zach Bryan, Dave Matthews Band, Tyler Childers, Neil Young, Beck Lead 2024 Bourbon & Beyond Festival
Festival producers Danny Wimmer Presents continue to roll out their 2024 festival lineups and have announced an all-star lineup of music artists for Bourbon & Beyond—the World’s Largest Bourbon & Music Festival—held September 19, 20, 21 & 22, 2024 at Highland Festival Grounds at Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, Kentucky. DWP is proud to announce Bourbon & Beyond’s stacked music lineup featuring dozens of legends and […]
Alice in Chains Releasing 30th Anniversary Vinyl Editions Of ‘Jar of Flies’
Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, is abuzz with the announcement of a multi-format 30th anniversary reissue of Alice in Chains’ acclaimed Jar of Flies on March 22nd. Released exactly 30 years ago today (January 25, 1994), the EP made history as the first of its format to debut at No. 1 […]
30 Year Ago Today – Alice In Chains Release ‘Jar of Flies’ EP- Watch “Nutshell” Live ‘MTV Unplugged;
VIDEO PREMIERE: Wesley Dean Traverses a Rich American Landscape with Folk Tune “Don’t Look Back” Featuring Sarah Buxton
Wesley Dean is hot off the back of the Crazy Hearts Across America Summer tour where he and his family drove over 5000 miles from Nashville to Los Angeles in an RV via towns steeped in musical history, from Memphis to New Orleans, and Luckenbach to Las Vegas. With a director and cameraperson in tow, […]
Matador Records To Reissue Classic Butthole Surfers Albums – Share Video For “Butthole Surfer”
Matador Records will reissue a number of key catalog titles by legendary Texas band, The Butthole Surfers, including classic albums and EPs recorded during the band’s strange, grotesque, and ultimately unparalleled first decade. All of the records have been remastered under supervision from the group. On Wednesday (1/24) remastered audio of the first three releases […]
GOLDEN AGE THURSDAY: Big Pun “Still Not A Player” at ‘Showtime At The Apollo’ 1998
It is a rite of passage for every hip-hop fan to hear Big Pun’s 1998 debut Capital Punishment. It would be hard to consider yourself a fan of hip-hop’s history without giving the album the listen it deserves. The impact it leaves behind is almost as big as the hole left in the genre after […]
LISTEN: On “Royal Gum” Weekends Rock Out With Art Punk Arrangements
Weekends was formed in Baltimore in 2008 by Adam Lempel and Brendan Sullivan. They switch off guitar and drums and played with bands like Future Islands, Dan Deacon, and Beach House. In 2024, now living in New York (Greenpoint and Kingston) they are releasing a long-lost album recorded in 2014. The first Weekends song to […]
30 Years Later: Meat Puppets Finallly Hit The Charts With ‘Too High To Die’
30 years ago Meat Puppets released their iconic Too High to Die LP just months before their heralded performance with Nirvana on MTV Unplugged in New York for three of their own acoustic songs from Meat Puppets II. Brimming with 14 tracks (if you’re including the hidden bonus track “Lake of Fire”) of murky grunge […]
Gruff Rhys Flexes Sonic Palette Of Soaring Tempos On ‘Sadness Sets Me Free’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
25 albums and a few decades into his career, Gruff Rhys shows no signs of slowing down. The multi-faceted pop excentric who once led Super Furry Animals takes a nomadic approach to his music, developing a relationship with the world around him and putting those emotions into smooth melodies and superb production. For his latest […]
Scottish Songsmith Malcolm MacWatt Delivers Hard-hitting Protest Songs on ‘Dark Harvest’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
Scottish singer-songwriter Malcolm MacWatt is here to remind us that poignant, oft visceral protest songs via folk music live on in this century. He is an angry, thoughtful writer with important messages. On Dark Harvest he hits harder than he did on his 2021 Settler and takes a different approach as well. Instead of inviting […]
LISTEN: Family Habits Drop Technicolored Plushness On Jazz Leaning “Never Done”
Close your eyes and fall backward into the technicolored plushness of Family Habits. The father-son soulful duo creates jazz-leaning arrangements with melodies that lean towards neo-soul for an amalgamation of some seriously smooth tunes. “Never Done” is the latest single from the Italian-bred duo. The single borrows its unpredictable structure from jazz while the vocals […]
The Messthetics Join Up With James Brandon Lewis For Self Title Album- Share Lead Single “Emergence”
Instrumental-trio The Messthetics joins forces with acclaimed jazz-saxophonist James Brandon Lewis for their forthcoming self-titled album, The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis. The album is set to release on March 15th via the legendary jazz label Impulse! Records. Alongside the album’s announcement, The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis share the lead single “Emergence,” which arrives with a […]
South by Southwest (SXSW) Drops Third Round of Musical Acts for 2024 Festival
The South by Southwest® Music Festival (SXSW®) has announced the third round of Showcasing Artists invited to perform at the 38th annual event. The festival features one-of-a-kind music showcases from rising talents and renowned artists from around the world performing in front of industry professionals, influencers, press and a multitude of engaged fans who have […]
25 Years Ago Today – Underworld Releases ‘Dubnobasswithmyheadman’ Album
VIDEO PREMIERE: Breezers Showcases Infectious and Wayward Folk-rock in “Orion’s Belt”
Breezers is the musical identity and songwriting vehicle of the Los Angeles-based, multidisciplinary artist and songwriter Evan apRoberts. His songs are influenced by the vastness and romanticism of life in the West and much like the walls of apRoberts’s music and art studio in northeast LA, they are brimming with desolate views into a world […]
SONG PREMIERE: Dan Bern Makes Timely and Clever Statement with Bold Piano-rock Tune “Bible”
January 12th saw the reissue, in a newly remastered edition, of New American Language, the 2001 album by acclaimed American songwriter Dan Bern. Surprisingly, the occasion marks the first appearance of a Bern album on vinyl, during a career spanning more than 30 releases. The remastered, first-time-on-vinyl edition of New American Language is followed by […]
Weirdo Wednesday: Kraftwerk “The Robots” Live 1978
Kraftwerk is a band that, in many ways, personifies the notion of “weird”. And that’s not just the case from an aural perspective, but really, their whole aesthetic defies easy categorization or explanation. In a nutshell, they sound like the most extreme version of what you would expect an electronic band spawned from Germany in […]
Willi Carlisle Explores Backroads of America with Ambitious Folk Sounds on ‘Critterland’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
Folkie Willi Carlisle follows up his strong 2022 sophomore effort Peculiar, Missouri by continuing to take the backroads through America looking into the oddities and charm of the landscape and characters that make up the more rural, less traveled parts of the country. The result is a much broader lyrical and musically ambitious album than the […]