Archive: 2024

LA-based duo Songs for Sabotage bring with them many years of experience in the New York music scene and in multiple bands and genres. They are releasing their sophomore LP, Clean Trauma, on March 13th, 2024. It represents a significant sound shift in comparison to their previous album, Night of Joy, moving into electronic and […]

Karl Wallinger, the Welsh-born musician and composer better known as the singular force behind World Party, and who helped Mike Scott give rise to The Waterboys died Sunday, March 10th at the age of 66.. Presciently ahead of his time with songs such as “Ship Of Fools”, “Put The Message In The Box” and “Is […]

“I love playing drums. I have eight children and grandchildren and we all play drums together. We get pretty tribal and that makes my life happy,” Artimus Pyle says with a laugh. Considering that his life has been filled with enough drama that would break any human being’s spirit, the Kentucky-born drummer is still standing […]

Last Saturday (March 9), the city of Philadelphia hosted the inaugural Slide Away festival at the stunning Union Transfer. The festival was created and centered around Philadelphia’s Nothing as a way to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the band’s debut album Guilty of Everything. The night turned into much more than an opportunity for Nothing […]

Alberta & The Dead Eyes is the giant-sounding band that in reality is the majority work of one real-life carpenter, David Boone (or D. Boone as he often signs off, evoking another literal and figurative giant of musical history, D. Boon of The Minutemen.) In fact, Boone’s songs contain that same ramshackle joy and conversational, […]

Jeff Slate is known as a world-class frontman and songwriter on the New York City music scene, where his band’s monthly residency in the heart of Chelsea draws sellout crowds and famous guests. But it was a long and winding road to that coveted place as part of New York’s cultural firmament. Slate came up […]

As we head into the thick of March, it’s that special time of the year when everyone and their mother tends to over-celebrate the 1%-10% of their genome that may or may not have some Irish component by partaking in all the stereotypes that characterize the season. Indeed, in some parts of the country (like […]

Beloved singer-songwriter Malcolm Holcombe has left us at age 68 from respiratory failure and ongoing health issues. Holcombe was singular in every sense of the word whether it was his quirky, oft irreverent lyrics, his one-of-kind blues guitar riffing, and a weathered from another age voice unlike any. Holcombe had long battled health issues and […]

Brother Dege’s sixth album, Aurora, now has the unfortunate distinction of being a posthumous release as we learned that the artist passed late on Friday, March 8, 2024.  This sudden, unexpected event comes with no details as this time, but the music herein certainly reflects a troubled soul. This magazine dubbed Brother Dege Legg as […]

Slash has announced his highly anticipated sixth solo album titled, Orgy of the Damned will be released on May 17 via Gibson Records. A collection of 12 dynamic songs that shake up and revitalize blues classics with a stripped-down approach, the album creates a singular expression that pays homage to the blues. The first single “Killing Floor,”-which features Brian Johnson of AC/DC on vocals, […]

Rainbow Kitten Surprise will release its first full-length album in six years, Love Hate Music Box, on May 10, 2024 via Elektra Entertainment. It is available to pre-order/pre-save HERE. Today, RKS also shared the album’s effervescent, lead single “Superstar”. The song is accompanied by a music video directed by Matthew DeLisi [Paramore, Judah & The Lion] – After years of struggling with […]

Marcus King has released “Hero,” the third single from his forthcoming Rick Rubin-produced album Mood Swings, released on April 5 via American/Republic Records. King also announced he will return to the Tonight Show on Monday March 11 2024 for a highly anticipated performance. On “Hero,” co-written with Dan Auerbach (The Black Keys), King’s arresting vocal shares the […]

Though rock radio in the 1980s was dominated by awful, corporate hair metal bands, it was also the birth of several great movements, such as the alternative scene in the Pacific Northwest and the thrash metal scene. Then there were bands like Extreme and Living Colour, who have finally joined forces for a tour this […]

The Disco Biscuits are back. Now, I’m the first to admit that’s something of a misleading opening statement. After all, the Philadelphia-based transfusion quartet has been touring the country and churning out new music for nearly thirty years with nary an extended break or hiatus, but in the past year or so, something has changed. […]

The weather is getting warmer, the days are getting longer, and the gloomy moods that come with rainy days stuck inside are slowly coming to an end. It’s springtime, baby! The longing for warm nights out and about will finally come to an end and what goes better with this relief than a slew of […]

The now-deceased Johnny Winter’s late-career work on Alligator, Virgin, and Point Blank Records reversed the (d)evolution?) of increasingly polished rock/pop-oriented records released during his stint on the Columbia/Blue Sky labels (Saints & Sinners and John Dawson Winter III to name just two). But it was the albino Texas bluesman’s comeback album of 1973, Still Alive Alive And Well, that sowed the seeds […]

The direction of music is almost unpredictable, with emphasis on almost. You could walk into any major record label and find whole departments dedicated to following trends and prepping artists to catch the next wave. Are these charts and data accurate? Tough to say, but they can’t be perfect. Diving through the history books of […]

Patience is a virtue and thankfully Soundgarden had a lot of it going into the recording of their fourth album. 30 years ago, Soundgarden solidified their place in the grunge history books with the release of their fourth studio LP Superunknown. Originally released on March 8, 1994, the album launched the band into the blinding […]

“Phil Lesh and Friends” technically played at the Berkeley Community Theater on September 24, 1994, when Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, and Vince Welnick played an acoustic set before what would be the Grateful Dead’s final fall tour.  In reality, Phil & Friends took flight four years later, after Lesh’s liver transplant, and started a quarter […]