Archive: 2024

Nashville-based singer-songwriter Katie Pruitt doesn’t shy away from vulnerability. With every crooning vocal line and emotional lyric, she ropes the listener in.  Her newest record, Mantras, came out in April 2024 and examines themes of self-compassion and healing. With songs like “Blood Related,” which reflects on rocky relationships with people across party lines, and “All […]

When you ask a typical Metallica fan what their best album is, chances are their response will be either Master of Puppets (i.e., the correct answer) or The Black Album (i.e., the wrong answer). Granted, Metallica has their fair share of classic/great albums, but broadly speaking, those records above tend to be their most popular […]

Gogol Bordello, the American punk rock band from the Lower East Side of Manhattan, was formed in 1999 by musicians worldwide and is known for theatrical stage shows and persistent touring hit Boston’s Roadrunner this past weekend. Inspired by Romani and Ukrainian music mixed with punk and dub, the eclectic band features lead vocalist Eugene Hutz, Sergey Ryabtsev on violin, guitarist Leo […]

With fifty-five years’ hindsight, the relatively minimal impact of The Allman Brothers Band’s self-titled debut record (released 11/4/69) was out of proportion to the band’s potential, eventual commercial success, and artistic influence. Famed producer Tom Dowd—Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, and Eric Clapton, among others—was to oversee the sessions, but the band’s subsequent long-time collaborator ran […]

All Hallows’ Eve descended upon Baltimore, Maryland, on Thursday night. Men and women walked along the streets in their striped, prison-style jumpsuits, headed for CFG Bank Arena to celebrate Billyween. The night was warm under a new moon, and this time of year, the veil is thin. The backstage walls of the Arena were decorated […]

Richmond, Virginia has a storied history of producing bands from a slew of disparate genres, from metal and punk groups like Lamb Of God, Municipal Waste, and Gwar to alt-country bands like Sparklehorse and Cracker. So, it’s not surprising that the scene would churn out an eclectic indie rock band like Illiterate Light. Comprised of […]

The finish line for 2024 is just over the horizon, and the music world has kicked in its last bit of adrenaline on this fine Friday for an epic photo finish of new releases. When we think the year will start slowing down, we get hit with this tidal wave of a New Music Friday. […]

Long before Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee were slotted into the opening of Dave Chapelle’s short-lived series on Comedy Central, their winning charm had earned them accolades for their authenticity, not the least of which were accorded them by comparably well-regarded musicians like pianist Otis Spann. In this video from French TV in 1964, the trio […]

The classic rock fans of Southern California have recently been blessed with shows by aging but still “got it” guitar-god frontmen. First, Eric Clapton came to town on October 12, barely a year after his probable last-ever Crossroads Festival hit Los Angeles in September 2023. Now iconic axe wielder David Gilmour is blasting his way […]