LISTEN: Drift City Craft Immersive Psychedelic Pop On “The Seeds”
Formed in Louisville, KY in 2017, Drift City spans psychedelic terrain with eclectic elements of pop, soul, and rock. Consisting of core member Jason Rivers (guitar, vocals, synth), and rotating personnel including Dave Givan (Jim James, Ray LaMontagne), Billy Lease (Tyler Lance Walker Gill), and Woody Woodmansee (Hawks), Drift City released their second LP Deep […]
LISTEN: The Best Around’s “Call of The Void” Brings Folksy Storytelling To Imaginative Rock
Understated art-rock innovators, The Best Around, are that rarest of things in modern music. Drawing inspiration from diverse influences ranging from country rock to Devo, Oingo Boingo, and beyond, they are a collaboration of artists that politely refuse to be pigeonholed. Their song-first approach allows them to produce eclectic fare. Camron Rushin, Todd Pruner, and […]
CAUSTIC COMMENTARY: AVTT/PTTN, Cheap Trick, FKA Twigs, Navy Blue, Colter Wall & More
While most of the world has mentally checked out of work for the year, with the long holiday vacations creeping from around the corner, we continue to fire on all cylinders here at the Old Caustic Factory. We greased our machines in preparation for what turned out to be another thrilling edition of New Music […]
Danz CM Goes Into Exploratory Mode With Atmospheric Krautrock Sounds on ‘LÄRM!’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
After three albums of synth-pop, Danz CM (formerly Computer Magic) has fully embraced the “synth” and done away with the “pop.” With LÄRM!, Danz CM pivots decisively into a more conceptual and exploratory mode. Recorded entirely with analog synths and a tape machine in her home studio, the album blends the locked-in pulse of ’70s […]
Winterpills Return With Expansive & Dreamy Sound On ‘This Is How We Dance’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
It’s been a significant year for chamber-pop band Winterpills. The Western Massachusetts quintet recently marked their 20th anniversary with a remixed reissue of their debut album—complete with a pair of bonus tracks—and now they’ve returned with This Is How We Dance, their eighth album and first release in nine years. Across these 12 songs, the […]
2026 Newgrass Brews & Bluegrass Festival Returns to Newberg, Oregon with Shadowgrass, The Fretliners, Never Come Down, Two Runner and More
Wolves & People Farmhouse Brewery and the Chehalem Cultural Center are gearing up to bring Newberg another unforgettable weekend of music, craft beverages, and community as the Newgrass Brews & Bluegrass Festival returns March 13–14, 2026. Festival passes are officially on sale, with a limited-time presale price of $99 available through November 21, 2025. What […]
LISTEN: Wendy Eisenberg’s “Will You Dare” Is Ethereal Folk With Vulnerable Poetry
Over the last five years or so, Wendy Eisenberg has been keeping listeners guessing. Nominally an improvising guitarist, they don’t recognize any musical limitations, perpetually finding ways to apply a deeply exploratory practice to a wide variety of contexts. Their musical range isn’t a glib manifestation of eclecticism, but a genuine artistic essence. The prolific […]
LISTEN: Telemarket Craft Immersive Psychedelic Textures With Raw Emotions On “Didn’t Ask What’s On My Mind.”
Athens, GA’s “sometimes-loud-sometimes-quiet” indie rockers Telemarket return with new single “Didn’t Ask What’s On My Mind.”, a dreamy bedroom pop number featuring an accompanying music video by international “ignorant” tattoo artist JankyDoodlez, out November 12th. “Didn’t Ask What’s On My Mind.” is Telemarket’s first follow-up to 2023’s Ad Nauseam, their debut LP released on Elephant […]
Charley Crockett, Spoon, Geese, Wednesday Lead 2026 Green River Festival
Green River Festival has announced the first installment of its 2026 lineup: headliners Charley Crockett, Spoon,and Geese will be joined by The Beths, Kurt Vile & the Violators, Wednesday, Lucius, The War And Treaty, Big Freedia, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Kashus Culpepper, PawPaw Rod, Folk Bitch Trio, Ratboys, Etran De L’Aïr, Frente Cumbiero, Sonido Gallo Negro, Southern Avenue, Esther Rose, […]
Ten Years Ago Today- A Tribe Called Quest Make Last Appearance With Phife Dawg
10 Years Later: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Employ Acoustic Bliss On Warm Yet Complex ‘Paper Mâché Dream Balloon’
Coming across a discography like that of the Australian psych-rock outfit can be, in simple terms, overwhelming. Since their formation in 2010, the ever-evolving band has been switching sonic terrains and releasing albums at a prolific rate, fearlessly marching into uncharted territories with no map, just lofty visions. With every experimentation from this band, like […]
The Avett Brothers & Mike Patton Serve Up Musical Twists & Surprises On ‘AVTT/PTTN’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
Throughout his idiosyncratic career, it has been impossible to figure out where Mike Patton will turn next, but even his most diehard fans would have been hard-pressed to believe the announcement of a new group with folk chart-toppers The Avett Brothers was true, yet that is exactly what happened. The newly christened AVTT/PTTN worked together on a self-titled album […]
FULL ALBUM PREMIERE: your friend juniper Embrace Ethereal & Graceful Textures On ‘sonder’ EP
Danielle Moreland-Ochoa, the singer/songwriter/producer behind the ethereal, folksy pop outfit, your friend juniper, has been quietly carving out a lane in the contemporary folk scene for a few years now. Although the artist seems to be in no rush, taking her time between releases, allowing each idea to fully manifest before gifting these songs to […]
Golden Age Thursday: Bad Religion Set Legendary Punk Path With Chaotic 1984 Performance
We are officially nearing the end of our year of punk rock Golden Age Thursdays series, and yet there is still so much history in this genre left to explore. While several underground scenes are brimming with colorful acts that have yet to be featured, it would be criminal for us to wrap up this […]
Jay Buchanan of Rival Sons Releasing Debut Solo Album ‘Weapons of Beauty’ February 6th- Shares New Single “Caroline”
Jay Buchanan, frontman of the Grammy-nominated rock group Rival Sons, will release his long-awaited debut solo album, Weapons of Beauty, on February 6 on Sacred Tongue Records via Thirty Tigers. The album will be available in a variety of formats, including limited-edition autographed color vinyl and CD, exclusively through Sacred Tongue / Second Sun. Pre-save/pre-order HERE. In advance of the release, Buchanan has shared […]
Little Feat Announces ‘The Last Farewell Tour’ & Share New Lowell George Penned Tune ““Feathers And A Smile”
Little Feat, who have been regularly touring in some form since their formation in 1969, have announced “The Last Farewell Tour.” The band has announced a series of dates starting in April 2026 with shows in Austin, Orlando, New Orleans, Kansas City, and more. Tickets will go on sale Nov 7. Pre-sale starts on Nov […]
30 Years Later: The Rolling Stones Tear Away The Bombast With ‘Stripped’
With three decades’ worth of hindsight, The Rolling Stones’ Stripped (released 11/13/95) is proof positive that, as often as the iconic band has simply gone through the motions, it has endeavored to do just the opposite. And the subsequent DVD/CD package, released just over a decade later as Totally Stripped, cements that impression. After an ever-so-brief intro that […]
54 Years Ago Today – Genesis Releases ‘Nursery Cryme’ Album – First With Collins & Hackett
Katzin Announces Debut Album ‘Buckaroo’
Buckaroo, the debut album from 20-year-old New York-based songwriter and recent Mexican Summer-signee Katzin, draws upon symbols of the mythologized American West — cowboys, horses, vast deserts, rolling plains, ancient rock formations — to trace that leap from adolescence to adulthood in all its unsteady shine. The album is out February 13, 2026 via Mexican […]
Weirdo Wednesday: Neil Young 80th Birthday- Watch Neil & Devo Jam on Bizzare & Ragged “Hey Hey, My My”
Rounding out our salute to Neil Young this week on this his 80th birthday, for today’s Weirdo Wednesday, we’re taking a look at the whacked-out original version of “Hey Hey, My My” performed in studio with Devo back in 1978. Recorded during the making of the delightfully bizarre cult film Human Highway (which was eventually […]