RUSH Extends Fifty Something Tour With 17 Additional Cities
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame® Inductees, GRAMMY® Award-nominated icons, and RUSH Co-Founders Geddy Lee [bass, keys, vocals] and Alex Lifeson [guitar, vocals] today announce 17 additional cities on their 2026 headline tour, Fifty Something, due to incredible demand. The tour, in celebration of RUSH’s music, legacy, and the life of late drummer and lyricist Neil Peart, has new dates in cities including Philadelphia, […]
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Brad Barr Talks New Barr Brothers LP ‘Let It Hiss,’ Finding Sobriety, Collaborating with Marco Benevento, Jim James, Klô Pelgag and Others (INTERVIEW)
It’s taken nearly eight years, but The Barr Brothers have finally returned with their latest studio recording, Let It Hiss. Despite the gap, this time has hardly been idle for Brad and Andrew Barr as they have been playing with their other long-running and prolific band The Slip, lending their instrumental talents to a range […]
SONG PREMIERE: Tommy Talton Expresses Gratitude for Life’s Journey with Emotionally-charged “I Want To Do It All Again” off Posthumous LP ‘Seven Levels’
Tommy Talton is one of the best singer-songwriters and guitarists of our time. He is a founding member of Macon, Georgia’s Capricorn Records group Cowboy, a/k/a Cowboy Boyer & Talton, an iconic band with a cult-like following, formed in 1970, along with songwriting partner Scott Boyer. The band recorded four albums on Capricorn Records and […]
Manic Monday: Ace Frehley Shows All Future Rockers How It’s Done With “Shock Me” Live ’77
By now no doubt most everyone has heard the news that Ace Frehley, lead guitarist for the iconic band Kiss, passed away last week at the age of 74. And while the Spaceman may have departed us for that great gig in the sky, fortunately he left behind a plethora of epic performances over the […]
My Morning Jacket Celebrate 20 Years Of ‘Z’ With Brooklyn Paramount Throw Down (SHOW REVIEW)
On a cold fall Thursday night in downtown Brooklyn, My Morning Jacket set up shop at the gorgeous Paramount on October 16th, for the first of their three sold-out shows. Thursday night’s offering was billed as a special twentieth anniversary celebration of the MMJ’s career breakthrough, Z. This was the third of five special shows […]
The Psychedelic Furs Demonstrate Power of Consistent Vision at Boston’s MGM Music Hall (SHOW REVIEW/PHOTOS)
The air was thick with nostalgia, anticipation, and excitement as The Psychedelic Furs took the stage for their current tour stop on October 16th, 2025, at Boston’s MGM Music Hall behind the city’s beloved Fenway Park. Decades after their New Wave heyday, the band has managed to shed the baggage of that era while retaining […]
David Byrne’s ‘Who Is the Sky?’ Tour Brings “Reasons to be Cheerful” to Philadelphia’s Met Opera House (SHOW REVIEW)
On October 16th, David Byrne brought his Who Is the Sky? concert tour to Philadelphia’s Metropolitan Opera House (for the first of three shows), beautifully restored in 2018, and the perfect stage for the legendary 73-year-old polymath to present his latest live multimedia experience. Who Is the Sky? marks Byrne’s first album of new music […]
Yoni Mayraz Takes Collaborative and Balanced Approach to Blending Hip-hop and Jazz on ‘Dogs Bark Babies Cry’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
Tel Aviv–born, London-based keyboardist and producer Yoni Mayraz has built a steady reputation for blending jazz, hip-hop, and electronic sounds into something that feels both live and carefully arranged. Following his 2022 debut Dybbuk, his new album Dogs Bark Babies Cry continues that approach, drawing on the interplay between musicians rather than studio tricks. Recorded […]
Be Your Own Pet & Anamanaguchi Thrill With Contrasting Styles At Orlando’s House of Blues (SHOW REVIEW/PHOTOS)
On Friday night, Anamanaguchi and Be Your Own Pet came to the House of Blues in Orlando, Florida, for the last night of the Buckwild Tour. The night featured contrasting styles, starting with aggressive rock and ending with dance pop. Nashville rockers Be Your Own Pet kicked off the night with an energetic 40-minute set […]
Russ Lawton, Scott Metzger and Ray Paczkowski Showcase Musical Chemistry as LaMP With Exploratory Performance at Portland, OR’s Polaris Hall (SHOW REVIEW/PHOTOS)
Though they might not generate much fanfare, Russ Lawton, Scott Metzger, and Ray Paczkowski are all heroes in the jam band world. Each of these musicians possesses a versatile skillset on their instruments, making them key players for acts like the Trey Anastasio Band, Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, and numerous other projects. Together, the trio […]
20 Years Later: Animal Collective Hit Creative Breakthrough With ‘Feels’
Pop is a genre that is slow to catch up to its forward-thinking contributors. While the sounds of yesterday find placement in the Billboard charts long after the innovators of the genre have moved on from that sound, it is essential to give credit where credit is due. Animal Collective deserves a healthy heap of […]
Crash Game Strategies — What Theory Tells Us
Crash games like Aviator turn risk into spectacle. The multiplier climbs, seconds stretch, and we face a razor-thin decision: bail out or ride. Below, behavioral theory and probability dismantle common intuitions and reveal what real strategy looks like when impulse collides with math. Platforms, Perks, and Playgrounds Crash games live inside broad ecosystems where everything […]
Elvis Costello & The Imposters Revisit Iconic Early Material At Chicago Theater (SHOW REVIEW)
It’s hard to believe it’s been over 48 years since Elvis Costello first burst onto the burgeoning UK music scene with his seminal debut album My Aim Is True way back in 1977. To this day, it stands as one of the most outstanding debut albums in the history of rock, a virtual smorgasbord of […]
Greg Anton’s ‘It’s About Time’ Covers Triumphs & Trials Of One Musician With Poetic Poise (BOOK REVIEW)
As a longstanding professional musician, Greg Anton knows full well the archetypes of that universe as well as their attendant cliches, which, like most truisms, actually contain kernels of truth. Accordingly, he has no qualms about turning the platitudes inside out and on their head during the course of unreeling his fictional story of disputed […]
LISTEN: Bear, Man Dangerous Brings Theatrical Flair To Post-Punk On “When We Cease to Understand the World”
Bear, Man Dangerous is a Seattle project fusing shoegaze, post-hardcore, and post-rock. Known for politically conscious lyrics, the band draws inspiration from Fugazi, Shellac, Russian Circles, and Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Their sound combines widescreen sonics with urgent storytelling. “When We Cease to Understand the World” is the latest single from Bear, Man Dangerous, and […]
LISTEN: Proteins Of Magic’s “Bayou” Is Ethereal Folk With Immersive Storytelling
There isn’t a single genre that describes the musical output of Proteins of Magic, but in broad terms, it embodies the realm of Gothic; from the use of voices from elsewhere, layered upon one another, to the drama of art pop melded with eerie post-punk, accompanied by videos that morph from the natural to the […]
Tame Impala Shatters Expectations With Glistening Electronic Danceability On ‘Deadbeat’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
Artistic evolution comes for every memorable musician, whether you like it or not. To selfishly ask an artist to stick to the elements of their sound that made you a fan would be a detriment. How else do you expect greatness if repetition is involved? Where can an artist go when fans and critics have […]
CAUSTIC COMMENTARY: Militarie Gun, Tame Impala, Katie Schecter, Todd Snider, The Last Dinner Party & More
It is starting to get just cold enough to wear a sweater, but not cold enough to freeze the stadium-sized gears on our delicate machinery here at the Old Caustic Factory. As we toss more coal into blazing ovens beneath huge conveyor belts, our trusty machines spit out another stellar list of fresh releases from […]
