Archive: 2024

Something about distinctive vocals sets the tone for an artist to be forever recognized audibly. Whether it’s a Rod Stewart rasp or a Neil Young ache, we know who these voices are. Grayson Converse of Spooky Mansion has that type of unique delivery that is part country, part punk, and part folk that immediately engages […]

Live casino is the latest trend at online casinos, and it promises to innovate further in the next few years, maintaining high levels of entertainment for players in this new frontier of digital entertainment. How we consume media and entertainment has significantly evolved in the last decade, with technological advancement leading to new ways for […]

Any pseudo-ode to Halloween would not be complete without a salute to perhaps the campiest band of the lot: The Cramps. Gone but never forgotten, the psycho/gothabilly legends led by the husband-and-wife duo of Lex Interior and Poison Ivy personified the over-the-top excess of the season perhaps better than any other band. There are numerous […]

The long-running garage rockers from Queens, NY, The Fleshtones, release their first new music in four years with It’s Getting Late (…and More Songs About Werewolves)’. The band uses tongue-in-cheek humor, retro rock, and a sense of the macabre throughout the record.    Since the early 1990s, the group has had a stable lineup of frontman […]

In the latest Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle offers his illustrated commentary on No Normal, the new album from Kill Lincoln, in his signature six-panel comic strip form. Click on the image for full resolution (best viewed on desktop):

Johnny Delaware describes his latest record as a nomadic affair.  “I recorded it in studios in Mexico and the United States and in hotel rooms all across Latin America, and if you listen closely, you can hear bits and pieces of all those places and the people I met along the way. They’re all a […]

The last time Stevie Wonder performed in Minnesota was in 2016 after Prince had passed. He played a four-hour Prince tribute jam with multiple guest artists. It was a historic event, however much somber that the show performed at The Target Center in Minneapolis on October 27th. Stevie’s current 10-date tour is called “Sing Your […]

The semi-annual Exit Zero Jazz Festival, held October 25-27, 2024, in the nation’s oldest ocean resort, Cape May, NJ, featured the usual loyal, enthusiastic jazz audiences and its famed eclectic lineup. The mild temperatures made it conducive to taking in acts on the sunny deck or at the nearby clubs, which were overflowing the entire weekend. We attended […]

Today, just two months after the release of their 26th album Flight b741, the ever-restless King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard release a new orchestral single, “Phantom Island,” and announce a 2025 Phantom Island orchestral tour. Featuring a different accompanying 28-piece orchestra in each city – and ably led by conductor & music director Sarah Hicks – the tour will see the group perform […]

Chris Bullinger began writing poetry at a young age and songs sometime thereafter. Born and raised in the Midwest, Bullinger has lived here and there and now spends a lot of time in Nashville and Asheville. His musical influences include Bob Dylan, Townes Van Zandt, and Steve Earle. Bullinger writes about truth more than fact. […]