Archive: 2025

The real attraction(s) of the Little Feat reissues in recent years have been the live recordings of the band at various stages of its career, and the four-compact-disc-plus package of The Last Record Album is no exception. But the studio inclusions here are equally enticing and intoxicating on their own terms. As with its companion pieces, concert […]

American Hell is the new album by Whiskerman, a sprawling double LP set to be released in two parts, beginning with American Hell Pt. I on January 26th, 2026. Following up 2023’s Champions (Deluxe Edition), the new album is both a return to form and a statement of purpose for the band, their first collection […]

The Planes were founded in 2009 in a dilapidated Brooklyn apartment by Massachusetts-born songwriter Stephen Otto Perry and a loose collection of friends. Soon, a regular lineup was formed, and the band began playing local shows in venues that are now all banks, condos, or overpriced restaurants. They released their first full-length album in 2011 […]

Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKAY, a vocalist for The Grateful Dead during one of their most fruitful periods in the 1970s, died at the age of 78 from cancer. Her vocals added warmth and harmony to songs like “Scarlet Begonias,” “Eyes of the World,” and “Playing in the Band,” but she was also known for her sometimes […]

Bobby Halvorson is a Sacramento-based singer, songwriter, and composer whose music blends orchestral sophistication with intimate, California-born songwriting. After more than a decade immersed in the Los Angeles art rock scene with his band Brother, Sister, Halvorson brings his deep musical roots and formal training—a doctorate in music composition, to his solo work. His expansive […]

Midlake, the rock-fusion outfit that emerged from Texas in the late nineties, has proven and endured a lot over the years. From band members leaving to drastic sonic shifts that range from atmospheric psychedelia to twinkling experimental indie rock, the band has long proven that their range knows no bounds. Still, there is an underlying, […]

Bob Dylan said in 1966, “Obviously, death is not very universally accepted. I mean, you’d think that the traditional music people could gather from their songs that mystery is a fact, a traditional fact.” These words perfectly encapsulate Mike Tod’s musical approach, one unafraid to venture into the darkest places, or as he himself describes, […]

Halloween hangover got you down? Then why not unwind with a little Unwound this week —a fitting band to help you transition from the hype and decadence of October into the more autumnal, introspective nature of November? And although Unwound steadily evolved into more cerebral and atmospheric territory throughout their active years in the 90s […]

In a musical landscape where many bands tend to blend together, it’s refreshing to hear a vocalist whose voice instantly defines their band. That’s the case with Geese, whose frontman, Cameron Winter, sounds unmistakably like himself. Winter evokes an early echo of Patti Smith — lanky, sardonic, poetically dark, and effortlessly bridging punk energy with […]

For the second year in a row, Billy Strings transformed Baltimore’s CFG Bank Arena into his own personal haunted house. The bluegrass phenom brought his guest-laden multi-day extravaganza to Charm City these past Friday and Saturday evenings, delivering a quartet of marathon sets and a litany of musical surprises.  While we’re primarily going to focus on […]