Hozier, LCD Soundystem, Alabama Shakes, Mannequin Pussy Highlight 7th Annual Sea.Hear.Now Festival (FESTIVAL REVIEW/PHOTOS)
The 7th annual Sea.Hear.Now (SHN) music festival in Asbury Park, NJ, was held on September 13th & 14th, and went off with hardly a hitch. It is a festival rooted in Asbury Park beach culture with a mix of local and big-name acts that center on rock music, but dip into punk, reggae, roots, electronica, […]
Turnstile Take Over The Pinnacle In Nashville For Night One Of ‘The Never Enough Tour’ (RECAP)
Modern hardcore icons turned pop culture sensation Turnstile is fresh off the release of their long-awaited follow-up to their breakthrough effort. After capturing the attention of fans from across genres and eras with their intricate fusion work on 2021’s GLOW ON, the Baltimore-bred band took its time with its follow-up, and it was worth every […]
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40 Years Later: The Waterboys Rival U2 With Triumphant ‘This Is The Sea’
The early music of the Waterboys was (much) too similar to U2’s until Mike Scott and company plumbed their Irish roots with 1988’s Fisherman’s Blues. Nevertheless, with the retrospect of forty years now, This Is The Sea (released 9/16/85) rivals Bono and the boys at their own game of exaltation: it is a genuinely majestic […]
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Tuesday’s Gone: Dance Hall Crashers Merge East Bay Punk With Ska Overtones
Continuing our Riot Fest preview this week, while the bold-font headliners often garner the most attention at first glance, as many veteran Riot Festers can attest, it’s those pleasantly surprising midday sets that can end up being the most rewarding. And there’s certainly no shortage of those smaller font gems on the docket at this […]
Fruit Bats’ Eric Johnson Speaks About The Songs Stuck In His Head (FEATURE)
Eric Johnson is used to working slowly, turning scraps of melody into full-grown Fruit Bats albums over months or years. But Baby Man, his latest release, came in a rush. Ten days in February 2025: no revisions, no second-guessing, just insomnia, dogs, mockingbirds, and a restless guitar. “It’s like a snapshot of a week in […]
Alabama Shakes Hang Loose With Soulful Return To Boston At MGM Music Hall (SHOW REVIEW/PHOTOS)
It has been nearly a decade since the musical world last heard from Alabama Shakes, a band that rocketed to fame with a unique blend of Southern rock, soul, and blues. Now this past Sunday night on September 14th, after a long hiatus, the band triumphantly returned to Boston and on to MGM Music Hall’s […]
Viagra Boys Prove to Be Punk Rock Winners with Incendiary Sold-out Performance at the Grand Lodge in Forest Grove, OR (SHOW REVIEW)
If you were lucky enough to catch Viagra Boys during their ascendant days about six or seven years ago, you were surely blown away by one of the most intense rock bands to hit the scene in recent memory. Around the time the Swedish post-punks released their debut LP Street Worms, their shows at smaller […]
Witch Brings Zambian Psych-Rock Past & Present To Life At Portland, OR’s Aladdin Theater (SHOW RECAP/PHOTOS)
The story of Zambian band Witch (an acronym for “We Intend To Cause Havoc”) is up there with the greatest comeback stories in rock n’ roll. In the 1970’s, the country of Zambia experienced the rise of Zamrock, a style of music that combined influences of that era’s rock n’ roll with the traditional polyrhythmic […]