Archive: 2024

The Bobby Tenderloin Universe is a band, a community, and a movement, but most of all, it’s an excuse to don your Western wear and give yourself over to the song and dance at the heart of every BTU show. Bobby enraptures his audiences with his deep, rich voice and thoughtful, tender lyrics, rustling up […]

Last week, The Hard Quartet wrapped its inaugural trio of shows, playing their universally hailed debut album front-to-back in Los Angeles, New York, and London.  This spring, the band – Emmett Kelly, Stephen Malkmus, Matt Sweeney, and Jim White – will hit the road big-time, traveling to cities across the continental United States and Canada. […]

Pixies have announced its 2025 North American Tour set to launch on June 13, 2025, at the Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas. The tour is in support of Pixies’ new album, The Night The Zombies Came, released on Friday, October 25, via BMG, and will see the band – Black Francis/guitar, vocals; Joey Santiago/guitar; David Lovering/drums, and new […]

Iain Matthews is a British-born singer/songwriter and musician who came of age in 1960s London and was swept up into Fairport Convention as a vocalist for their first two albums before moving into other solo and band work. His path eventually led him to the United States in the 1970s, and one of his most […]

With only a couple of days left until Halloween, if you haven’t started already, it’s not too late to start indulging in some (debatably cliché) bands often associated with this time of the year. Some of those bands are also really good, regardless of the season. Chief among them for this writer is Type O […]

You’ve seen many collaborations between bassist Scott Colley and drummer Brian Blade on these pages, typically backing Danish saxophonist Benjamin Koppel. The two have long collaborated with pianist Edward Simon, going back to groups involving saxophonist David Binney and guitarist Adam Rogers three decades ago. Recently, this trio appeared to wide acclaim along with a string […]

When the legendary pianist and composer NEA Jazz Master Andrew Hill’s live A Beautiful Day was issued in 2002, he had long left Blue Note in 1969. The intervening years were sketchy, with releases on European labels and long hiatuses to care for his ailing wife on the West Coast. In the late ‘90s, Hill […]

The air was electric at Underground Arts on October 26th as Devon Gilfillian, Philly native son and Grammy-nominated soul singer/songwriter, headlined a night of music that would leave the city buzzing. This set marked the second-to-last night of the weeklong 2024 Philly Music Fest, with a crowd consisting of both longtime fans and newcomers united […]

Melbourne producer and songwriter Fez34 captures the sound of modern jazz and alternative soul. There is a focus on live instrumentation and collaboration, building tapes from sessions with other artists. Using the energy from these sessions, Fez34 combines emotion and intensity to create memorable experiences. With only two singles under his belt, Fez34 already has […]

GHOST has announced its biggest world tour to date beginning with 55+ shows across the U.S., Europe, the UK, and Mexico next year. The GRAMMY-award-winning Swedish theatrical rock icons will traverse the globe from the tour’s April 15 opening night at the AO Arena in Manchester, UK, headlining scores of the world’s most notable arenas—including […]

Bag of Cans are a quintet weaving through the musical ranks on a sound described as “a gloriously surreal mix of old school indie, Weimar Berlin cabaret and Kinks circa Village Green Preservation Society.” Birthed from the effervescent swamp that is Norwich’s music scene in 2017, the band has garnered a reputation as one of […]

Dr. Daniel Levitin has an extensive resume. He is a neuroscientist and Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Neuroscience at McGill University in Montreal. He is also the founding Dean of Arts and Humanities at Minerva University in San Francisco. He is the author of such bestselling books as This Is Your Brain on Music and The World in […]

Is there any band more synonymous with Halloween than the Misfits? Granted, there have been plenty of groups over the years that have campy and dark elements (chances you may have seen some of them from this writer recently), but you’d be hard-pressed to top the overtly ghoulish flair pioneered by Glenn Danzig and the […]

Million Voices Whisper is the fourth solo album and first in almost a decade for Warren Haynes, yet it’s been stewing in Haynes’ head for his entire career. It goes back to his days as a youngster listening to his favorite soul singers. It’s rich with his definitive guitar playing throughout, whether on lead or […]

Randy Newman is so influential that his songwriting style has become shorthand for smart and searingly witty. The albums Good Old Boys and Sail Away are two of the best themed records to come out of the early 1970s. And in an entirely separate career, sometimes concurrently, Newman has scored 30 movies going back five […]

Finally!, the debut from Jake Sherman and Abe Rounds (Jake and Abe), feels like an intimate jam session where the magic of groove and melody takes center stage. This project, seven years in the making, leans heavily into funk, jazz, and soul, but what sets it apart is the dynamic way these genres are deconstructed […]

Released less than six months after his eponymous Columbia Records debut, Johnny Winter’s sophomore album for the label (and third solo overall) put to rest the naysaying that arose after the prior title’s emergence.  In the aftermath of all the fanfare around the Texan’s mammoth signing bonus, the textbook takes on multiple blues styles comprising Johnny […]

Last night (October 25), legendary Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour brought his Luck and Strange Tour to the States. The first stop on the U.S. leg landed the icon at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California, after a long string of European dates that included six nights at London’s Royal Albert Hall. All of this […]