Archive: 2024

With a title like Screamin’ At The Sky, you knew this was going to be a rocking album. With sonics exploding and lyrics straight on, Black Stone Cherry has made their eighth studio record a memorable one. They have outdone themselves yet again by focusing on the lyrics and giving them an adrenaline shot with […]

Colorado jam-grass titans Yonder Mountain String Band reflect on over two decades of music-making with the surprise reveal of I’d Like Off, a formerly unreleased collection and one of the last studio projects featuring the group’s original lineup: Adam Aijala, Dave Johnston, Ben Kaufmann, and the late Jeff Austin. Out today on all digital streaming […]

As the driving force behind Hurray For The Riff Raff, Alynda Segarra has spent the better part of two decades on a journey mining the American psyche and experience. This has brought Segarra through multiple musical stages that have always coincided with the trajectory of life in this crazy diverse and sometimes fucked up country. […]

The good times just keep rolling over here at Camp Caustic as we usher in the Spring season with a list of new releases. We’re not the type to tell you what to do but if we could make a recommendation, this is a Caustic where you should listen to every song featured. Each tune […]

Begun in 1975 and lasting into their current farewell tour, Joe Walsh’s membership in The Eagles has come to largely overshadow his de facto leadership of the power trio known as James Gang during the late Sixties and early Seventies. This despite the fact two of the band’s songs, “Funk #49” and “Walk Away,” were in heavy rotation […]

Johnny Winter’s supervision of Muddy Waters’ comeback in 1977 was far more productive than The London Muddy Waters Sessions of 1972 (and even more so Howlin’ Wolf’s collaborations with British musicians the year prior). Recorded with the late Texas bluesman alongside members of the blues icon’s own band–plus harpist James Cotton with whom the albino had worked […]

March 26 is a very special day in hip-hop. In 1984, Run-DMC released their self-titled debut album, and the world of hip-hop, and music overall, changed forever. The album introduced the world to a more lively and aggressive take on the young genre, they repackaged the young genre into something they could call their own. […]

It may not be any coincidence that Ride’s Interplay is the group’s first album in four years. It may be the definitive post–COVID musical statement because, while there’s no question many songs and albums from a multiplicity of artists arose from the pandemic, the Brits’ latest effort captures the sense of begrudging solitude and cautious insularity necessitated […]

From being praised as one of the founding members of Digable Planets, Ishmael Butler has reinvented himself as a sci-fi director with his Shabazz Palaces project. The project encompasses the heritage of Butler’s hip-hop beginnings with scenes from distant planets, creating an avant-garde brand of hip-hop that relies on narrative and fearless experimentation. Exotic Birds […]

Jenny Don’t and the Spurs have been pioneering their own path in the music world for over a dozen years. Known for their high-energy Country Western style and captivating stage presence, they’ve garnered a global following with their infectious enthusiasm, and extensive discography, featuring three albums, an EP, and nine singles. Their 2021 LP, Fire […]

Marco Benevento’s second official live offering was captured very close to his literal home as Barn Burner: Live at Levon’s was recorded a few short blocks from his Woodstock residence in early 2023.  Benevento is joined by his longtime bandmates Karina Rykman (Bass & Background Vocals) and Chris Corsico (Drums) who deliver Marco’s upbeat, electro-jam […]

Sheryl Crow originally intended the 2019 collaborative album Threads to be her last, but just four years later, a Peter Gabriel song inspired her to return to the studio. Gabriel’s song “Digging in the Dirt” and its themes of self-examination resonated with Crow, who brought a demo cover of it to producer Mike Elizondo. That […]

Americana rockers Yarn is back with a new album, Born, Blessed, Grateful, & Alive, out July 26th via Symphonic Distribution and this is their first new studio album in eight years. After four Grammy nominations and years spent on the road, Yarn frontman/songwriter Blake Christiana found himself in a rut. He wasn’t sure if the […]

Grammy-winning artist Dave Alvin and Grammy nominee Jimmie Dale Gilmore are two folk heroes thgat have now evolved their unbreakable bond into a fully-fledged musical and songwriting partnership. Today they celebrate the announcement of TexiCali, a brand new studio album out June 21 via Yep Roc Records, with the aptly-titled first single “We’re Still Here.” […]

Coming off the release of her highly praised new LP Undressed at the Symphony, Atlanta’s own Faye Webster brings the new set of songs on the road. Her 2024 tour kicked off last night (March 26) at Jannus Live in St. Petersburg Florida. After a string of shows in Australia at the beginning of the […]

Out June 21st via Rhino, six days before the album’s original release on June 27, 1974, The Grateful Dead will release From The Mars Hotel (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) which features remastered audio by GRAMMY® Award-winning engineer David Glasser, with Plangent Processes tape restoration and speed correction. Produced for release by Grateful Dead Legacy Manager and Audio Archivist, David […]

A lot can happen in 40 years, it is absurd the effects time can have on places and people. As the sand reaches the bottom of the hourglass with every blink of an eye and the rapid pace of how things developed in the modern age, romanticizing a time before social media became a commodity. […]

With the release of the new single, “Simple Touch,” the self-proclaimed “demented pop” chanteuse Eddy Lee Ryder announces the release date for her first full-length album, Sweet Delusions. Synthesizing timeless songcraft, dramatic introspection, and infinite pop smarts to create a breathtaking song cycle of apocalyptic romance and anxious regret, badly broken hearts, and wishful hope […]