Rainbow Kitten Surprise Returns With ‘Love Hate Music Box’ On May 10th – Shares Lead Single “Superstar”

Rainbow Kitten Surprise Returns With ‘Love Hate Music Box’ On May 10th – Shares Lead Single “Superstar”

Rainbow Kitten Surprise will release its first full-length album in six years, Love Hate Music Box, on May 10, 2024 via Elektra Entertainment. It is available to pre-order/pre-save HERE. Today, RKS also shared the album’s effervescent, lead single “Superstar”. The song is accompanied by a music video directed by Matthew DeLisi [Paramore, Judah & The Lion] – After years of struggling with […]

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LISTEN: Marcus King Shares Spirited Dan Auerbach Co-Write “Hero”

LISTEN: Marcus King Shares Spirited Dan Auerbach Co-Write “Hero”

Marcus King has released “Hero,” the third single from his forthcoming Rick Rubin-produced album Mood Swings, released on April 5 via American/Republic Records. King also announced he will return to the Tonight Show on Monday March 11 2024 for a highly anticipated performance. On “Hero,” co-written with Dan Auerbach (The Black Keys), King’s arresting vocal shares the […]

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Extreme & Living Colour Prove Fiery Lead Guitars & Vocals Still Rule At Orlando’s House Of Blues (SHOW REVIEW/PHOTOS)

Extreme & Living Colour Prove Fiery Lead Guitars & Vocals Still Rule At Orlando’s House Of Blues (SHOW REVIEW/PHOTOS)

Though rock radio in the 1980s was dominated by awful, corporate hair metal bands, it was also the birth of several great movements, such as the alternative scene in the Pacific Northwest and the thrash metal scene. Then there were bands like Extreme and Living Colour, who have finally joined forces for a tour this […]

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Disco Biscuits Welcome Artistic Renaissance At The Fillmore In Silver Spring, Maryland (SHOW REVIEW)

Disco Biscuits Welcome Artistic Renaissance At The Fillmore In Silver Spring, Maryland (SHOW REVIEW)

The Disco Biscuits are back. Now, I’m the first to admit that’s something of a misleading opening statement. After all, the Philadelphia-based transfusion quartet has been touring the country and churning out new music for nearly thirty years with nary an extended break or hiatus, but in the past year or so, something has changed. […]

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CAUSTIC COMMENTARY: Kim Gordon, Slow Hollows, Judas Priest, Moor Mother, Alex Jordan & More

CAUSTIC COMMENTARY: Kim Gordon, Slow Hollows, Judas Priest, Moor Mother, Alex Jordan & More

The weather is getting warmer, the days are getting longer, and the gloomy moods that come with rainy days stuck inside are slowly coming to an end. It’s springtime, baby! The longing for warm nights out and about will finally come to an end and what goes better with this relief than a slew of […]

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50 Years Ago Today – Queen Release Their Heaviest Album ‘Queen II’

50 Years Ago Today – Queen Release Their Heaviest Album ‘Queen II’

50 years ago today Queen released Queen II, perhaps the band’s heaviest album and one that would set the template for many rock bands to follow. The album is known for its distinctive “side white” and “side black” concepts, with one side containing more rock-oriented songs and the other featuring…
Deep Friday Blues: Johnny Winter’s “Silver Train” Live 1973

Deep Friday Blues: Johnny Winter’s “Silver Train” Live 1973

The now-deceased Johnny Winter’s late-career work on Alligator, Virgin, and Point Blank Records reversed the (d)evolution?) of increasingly polished rock/pop-oriented records released during his stint on the Columbia/Blue Sky labels (Saints & Sinners and John Dawson Winter III to name just two). But it was the albino Texas bluesman’s comeback album of 1973, Still Alive Alive And Well, that sowed the seeds […]

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30 Years Later: Nine Inch Nails Brings Industrial To Musical Forefront With ‘The Downward Spiral’

30 Years Later: Nine Inch Nails Brings Industrial To Musical Forefront With ‘The Downward Spiral’

The direction of music is almost unpredictable, with emphasis on almost. You could walk into any major record label and find whole departments dedicated to following trends and prepping artists to catch the next wave. Are these charts and data accurate? Tough to say, but they can’t be perfect. Diving through the history books of […]

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30 Years Later: Soundgarden Falls On Mainstream Days With ‘Superunknown’

30 Years Later: Soundgarden Falls On Mainstream Days With ‘Superunknown’

Patience is a virtue and thankfully Soundgarden had a lot of it going into the recording of their fourth album. 30 years ago, Soundgarden solidified their place in the grunge history books with the release of their fourth studio LP Superunknown. Originally released on March 8, 1994, the album launched the band into the blinding […]

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Night 2 Of Phil Lesh Quintet At Port Chester’s Capitol Theatre Shines With Traffic Heavy Second Set (SHOW REVIEW)

Night 2 Of Phil Lesh Quintet At Port Chester’s Capitol Theatre Shines With Traffic Heavy Second Set (SHOW REVIEW)

“Phil Lesh and Friends” technically played at the Berkeley Community Theater on September 24, 1994, when Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, and Vince Welnick played an acoustic set before what would be the Grateful Dead’s final fall tour.  In reality, Phil & Friends took flight four years later, after Lesh’s liver transplant, and started a quarter […]

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