Archive: 2025

Florida’s boutique music and arts festival, Orange Blossom Revue, returns for its 11th annual celebration December 5–6, 2025. Set in the scenic Lake Wailes Park, just outside historic downtown Lake Wales and an easy drive from central Florida hubs like Tampa and Orlando, this year’s edition delivers a dynamic mix of gritty Southern rock, swampy soul, and high-energy […]

Real Ones are five childhood friends from Bergen, known as a fantastic live band and one of the most original bands in Norway. They have been going for 31 years, since they were 14. The result so far is 13 albums, 4 EPs, 2 Spellemann awards (Norwegian Grammy Awards), and over 1000 concerts in 15 […]

Due out May 30 via Acrophase Records (Mali Velasquez, Font) and Secretly Distribution, Ava McCoy’s sophomore album Dragonfly is a coming-of-age record in the truest sense. The only member of her Oregon-rooted family to be raised in New York, McCoy found her voice in two places: the towering skyline of the city and the sprawling […]

Billy Strings will continue his headline tour through this fall including newly confirmed stops at Huntsville’s Orion Amphitheater (three nights), Baltimore’s CFG Bank Arena (two nights), Pittsburgh’s PPG Paints Arena (two nights), Newark’s Prudential Center (two nights), Tulsa’s BOK Center, Fort Worth’s Dickies Arena and Austin’s Moody Center as well as shows in Oslo, Denmark, […]

Continuing our spotlight on Primus this week, for today’s Tuesday’s Gone, we’re throwing it all the way back to the beginning of the band with this remarkable footage of them performing live at KZSU Radio Station from 1989. Mind you, this is before they released their debut album Frizzle Fry (which would officially drop the following year), […]

Dywayne Thomas Jr., aka MonoNeon, marches to his beat and can take any direction. I’ve seen him burn up the stage at Newport Jazz with a decibel-breaking, raucous performance. That same MonoNeon, though, as he did on his 2024 Quilted Stereo, delivers a batch of highly accessible songs on You Had Your Chance…Bad Attitude. In his own […]

Rat Motel is the Columbus-based buzz rock duo of Seth and Clayton Peacock. The brothers released their debut album in 2023, cementing their droney, artfully orchestrated nightscapes and massive, dual-cylinder live sets as an integral part of Ohio’s rock scene. The band went on to open for The Beths, Pile, The Dirty Nil, and Twen […]

When seeing BEATrio in concert, drummer Antonio Sanchez, who positioned himself as the project’s leader,  rather offhandedly quipped, “Banjo, harp, drums…what the hell is that?” It may be one of the most unlikely trio configurations ever witnessed. Still, the audience responded to their live performance with one of the warmest, enthusiastic responses I’ve ever heard.  […]

It’s a beautiful spring day in sunny California, and Don Felder has something other than an interview on his mind when he calls me: “I might have to go out and jump in the pool later this afternoon,” he says with a hearty laugh that sounds very genuine. He may live across the country from […]

It’s hard to believe that it has been almost four years since 17-year-old Jack Barksdale recorded his last full-length album. There have been a smattering of singles and an EP in those intervening years, and each time the listener and the world in general views a new iteration of an artist finding his way in […]

Continuing with our loose “Alt-Metal May” theme, this week we’ll spotlight yet another classic and highly influential band from that somewhat niche genre: Primus. Indeed, when they first burst onto the scene with their 1990 debut album Frizzle Fry, no one knew what to make of the band. Were they metal? Were they funk? Were […]

It had been nearly six years since thrash-metal titans Power Trip last graced the stage of Metro Chicago. The band, of course, had good reason for their extended hiatus from The Windy City and touring at large, given the fact that their original lead singer, Riley Gale, tragically died in 2020 at the all too […]

Ray Barretto was already a giant in Latin music when he released Barretto in 1975. Born in New York to Puerto Rican parents, he had spent the previous two decades carving out a singular place for himself as both a fiery percussionist and an inventive bandleader. He first made his mark in the jazz world […]

When Geordie Greep suddenly announced the end of Black Midi last year, the math rock outfit he had founded in his teens and co-fronted, it was met with shock. After all, the band was on the up and up as they released albums that increasingly appealed to broader audiences. Greep’s next move made it clear […]

Uri Poliavich, the founder of Soft2Bet, has presented the company’s 2024 Soft2Bet Research Report, which highlights impressive financial growth, market expansion, and product innovation. The report underscores Soft2Bet’s strategic successes in the casino and sportsbook sectors, where the company has doubled its EBITDA, increased consolidated group revenue, and expanded into regulated markets across Europe and […]

Many fans and other music lovers who’d seen the Who live around the turn of the Sixties/Seventies might well have been disappointed with Live At Leeds, a concert album fifty-five years later deemed one of the ground-breaking albums of its kind in contemporary rock history. But the fact is, without the roughly hour-long concert version of Tommy integral […]

Even given Bob Dylan’s self-professed discomfort about exactly who constituted his audience by the time the Eighties rolled around, it still defies logic he would attempt to connect with the MTV Unplugged demographic by appearing on the popular television series half-way through the next decade.  But, leave it to the Nobel Laureate to fully play the part […]

On May 6th, indie band Momma hit Crescent Ballroom with an electric performance. Momma is fronted by singers Allegra Weingarten and Etta Friedman, who both hold a euphoric, yet familiar, charm that only the lead singer of an indie-sleaze revival band can have. They started with “I Want You (Fever)”, a hit that is also their […]