Ghost Announces World Tour Dates
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 […]
LISTEN: Bag of Cans Channel Pop Tendiences Into Frantic Post-Punk On “Favourite Shirt”
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 […]
Neuroscientist, Musician, and Author Dr. Daniel Levitin Talks New Book ‘I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine’ and More (INTERVIEW)
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 […]
Ten Years Ago Today – The Allman Brothers Band Play Final Show Ever
Manic Monday: Watch Misfits Chow Down For “Braineaters” Promo Video
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 […]
Warren Haynes Makes Career Solo Statement On Soulful & Immediate ‘Million Voices Whisper’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
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 […]
Robert Hilburn’s ‘A Few Words in Defense of Our Country’ Offers In-depth Biography of Randy Newman (BOOK REVIEW)
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 […]
Jake and Abe’s Debut ‘Finally!’ Brings Timeless Yet Fresh Intimacy to Groove-laden Funk, Soul, and Jazz Jams (ALBUM REVIEW)
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 […]
55 Years Later: Johnny Winter’s Trademark Trebly Sound Fires Alive On ‘Second Winter’
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 […]
David Gilmour Brings His New Album And A Few Classics To Life At Inglewood’s Intuit Dome On Luck and Strange’ U.S. Tour Kickoff (RECAP)
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 […]