Archive: 2025

GHOST has confirmed that its SKELETOUR WORLD TOUR will continue to pack arenas in the new year, with today’s announcement of 20 new North American rituals kicking off January 21st at the Kia Center in Orlando, FL and running through February 23rd at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles. Tickets for U.S. dates will first […]

This House is Creaking is not only a terrifically imaginative band name, but it is also an apt description of the band’s current place in their artistic journey. The shoegaze-tinted indie rock duo, consisting of Micah Miller and Ehmed Nauman, has been crafting infectious, fun yet eerie experimental rock that borrows from electro-rock as much […]

September marks the 30th anniversary of one of the greatest metal records of the 90s (and in this writer’s opinion, one of the best metal albums of all-time period): Down’s 1995 debut album NOLA. A stone-cold classic particularly in sludge/stoner-metal circles, NOLA captured a certain ferociously gritty and smoldering intensity that emphatically added up to […]

Our ever-earnest singer-songwriter Afton Wolfe rarely skips an AmericanaFest, and when he’s in town, he always collects the best stories—whether it’s playing showcases or discovering the kind of hidden local spots only Nashville insiders know. His upcoming release, Ophiuchus, arrives later this fall and is already shaping up to be one of Americana’s boldest records […]

Prairie Wind (released 9/27/05) is arguably a more convincing sequel to 1972’s Harvest than its ostensible follow-up of ’92, Harvest Moon. Comprised of an acoustic-based sound reminiscent of both those commercially successful albums, the 28th studio album by the Canadian rock icon might otherwise come off as a slight exercise in style if its songs […]

When Howe Gelb, M. Ward, and McKowski were in the same place at the same time at a wedding in Tucson, Arizona, none of them imagined that a spur-of-the-moment collaboration would blossom into something else: Geckøs. Each had long histories of collaboration—Gelb best known as the restless spirit behind Giant Sand, Ward for his work […]

It is hard to believe this is the last Caustic of September; it feels like it all just started yesterday. As we wave goodbye to an exhilarating month of new releases, the month isn’t going out on a soft note, quite the opposite, actually. This week’s New Music Friday is an action-packed summer blockbuster where […]

On Wednesday night, Scottish indie rockers Franz Ferdinand played in Orlando, Florida, for the first time in 21 years. The Human Fear Tour stopped at a packed House of Blues for a night of hyper party rock.  Newcomer Master Peace started the night with a short set of energetic indie pop. Backed by a guitarist […]

Raised in New York and singing in church from the age of four, Michelle David’s voice was forged in gospel. By five, she was performing with The Mission of Love, and her career has since taken her across the globe with Broadway productions (Mama, The Sound of Motown, Glory of Gospel, Mahalia) and studio sessions […]

George, named after a beloved late dog, is a rock band from Richmond, Virginia. Blending garage, alt, punk, indie, and rock and roll, the band is known for high-energy shows and urgent, melodic songs delivered with unpolished grit. The story of George begins with Camilo Medina (Divino Niño & S.3.R), who played in bands with […]

Jamband musicians are like theater performers. You had to be there. That’s the magic. But after the 2023 The Very Moon: A Steampunk Musical shows in Philadelphia, Aron Magner wasn’t ready to move on. “We created this world and wrote all these new songs that I wanted to memorialize. I wasn’t ready to just move […]

In 2019, New York-based multi-instrumentalist Cochemea set out on a trilogy of albums. The first, All My Relations, proved to be an eclectic collection of free-form jazz, whose tropes crumbled under the pressure of the musician’s ambitions. With Vol. 2: Baca Sewa, Cochemea focused on deep percussion swings, adding streaks of wind instruments to produce […]

The community of hardcore punk is a loud and proud one. Looking at old footage from the genre’s infancy showcases crowds of teenagers slamming into each other to indecipherable music, at least that’s what the uneducated see. A more keen eye views these classic videos as a tribe of like-minded individuals bolstering the singularity of […]

Almostf fifty years after its original release, The Rolling Stones are set to celebrate their groundbreaking 1976 album Black and Blue with a definitive Super Deluxe Box Set, arriving globally on November 14, 2025, from Interscope/UMe. Originally released in April, 1976 Black and Blue marked a bold new chapter for the band and now returns in a stunning, remixed and expanded package across multiple […]

The well-decorated Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, with only three albums to his name, makes a bold move to control his artistic direction while providing a home for the next generation of artists on his Red Zero Records. The native son of Clarksdale, MS, still in his mid-twenties, is a global star who has quickly moved past […]

Last year, Marcus King deviated from his norm with the Rick Rubin-produced Mood Swings. He scaled back his vaunted guitar and valiantly focused on his vocals, experimenting with soul. Now he follows that up by returning to his roots, reuniting with his longtime live band for their first album since 2018’s Carolina Confessions. The new release, Darling Blue, […]

Not since the halcyon days of the Pure Jerry archival series of the early 2000s has there been a release so expansive as the six-CD box of Jerry Garcia Band: Live at the Warfield – February 28, March 1st & 2nd, 1991.  It is a special pleasure indeed to hear the titular leader of the […]