Archive: 2024

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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) […]