Archive: 2025

Jeremy & The Harlequins was founded in the summer of 2013 when Jeremy Fury sought a new creative direction. The band’s debut album, American Dreamer, was recorded in Detroit, Michigan, blending elements of classic 1950s and 1960s rock and roll with modern sensibilities. The band consists of Fury on vocals and guitar, Craig Bonich and […]

While casino gaming has become available as a digital activity and offers convenience and accessibility, some will still swear by the real thing. Many feel that playing at a brick-and-mortar casino provides an unrivaled experience and one that can’t be matched, despite all the innovative technological advances that have been enjoyed. Indeed, places like Las […]

Big Chief Bo Dollis, Jr. is an award-winning cultural performer, musician, and educator whose work preserves and promotes the rich cultural heritage of Mardi Gras Indians, a distinctly New Orleans tradition. Together with his band The Wild Magnolias, Dollis, Jr. combines reimaginings of classic songs – including Otis Redding’s “Hard to Handle” –  with contemporary […]

Not to be confused with the short-lived early Minor Threat offshoot band, Los Angeles’s Youth Brigade is the influential hardcore band that emerged from the city’s Punk heyday. Starting in 1980 with brothers Mark, Adam, and Shawn Stern, Youth Brigade has experienced the complete cycle most punks must go through. After starting the band together, […]

Tunde Adebimpe’s debut solo album, Thee Black Boltz on Sub Pop, opens with the poetic spoken word title track, setting the scene. What follows is a mix of lo-fi indie rock, electro dance-ready beats, industrial banging, and 80s synth pop as Adebimpe sings about loss, love, and an uncertain future over varied backgrounds.  Not too far removed from […]

In keeping with its title (and the striking cover graphic by the famed Kelley/Mouse artistic team), Robert Hunter’s second solo album resides squarely in the oeuvre of the Grateful Dead, to which he contributed so much. This double-disc milestone edition of Tiger Rose illustrates that this placement was a purposeful decision on the part of the erudite lyricist […]

James McMurtry will release The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy on June 20 via New West Records. The 10-song collection was co-produced by McMurtry & Don Dixon (R.E.M., The Smithereens) and is his first album in four years. It follows his 2021 acclaimed New West debut, The Horses and the Hounds. The Black Dog […]

Neko Case has announced her fall North American tour today, crisscrossing the continent throughout October and November. Artist presale begins tomorrow, April 17th at 10am local time, and tickets go on sale Friday, April 18th at 10am local time. All dates are listed below and tickets will be available here: https://nekocase.com/tour These are Case’s first live musical […]

Inspiration can come from anywhere. A painter can catch the glimpse of an off-colored autumn leaf and create a world around its shades, a photographer can capture the innocence of a picnic with one snapshot of an entire afternoon; The art we consume and fill us with hope was once a dwindling moment of passion […]

doubleVee is delighted to self-release EP Periscope at Midnight on July 25th. Produced by Allan and Barb in their home studio, it was co-mixed by the pair and Wes Sharon of 115 Recording, with Wes handling the mastering. Allan performed vocals, guitars, bass, and drums/effects programming, with Barb performing vocals and synths. Guest performers include […]

If there’s one thing seemingly missing from Coachella lineups of late, it’s a lack of truly weird or avant-garde acts featured on the bill. Granted, they still occasionally sprinkle in some nonmainstream artists into the mix (they had Bjork on the bill in 2023, for example), but lately, there seems to be a general aversion […]

The Flying Burrito Brothers’ Burrito Deluxe (released April 1970) seemed conventional to a fault when it came out over a half-century ago, roughly a year after its eccentric predecessor, 1969’s The Gilded Palace of Sin. Yet this extended perspective only serves to clarify the group’s sophomore effort as a seminal entry in the burgeoning marriage of country rock. […]

Bootsy Collins celebrated the release of his new album Album of the Year #1 Funkateer at the Electric Fetus in Minneapolis. Decked out in purple and black as an obvious homage to Prince. Bootsy and Peppermint Pati danced and sang to Bootsy‘s new album with the crowd.  The Fetus was packed with excited fans, picking up […]

Philly-based indie pop outfit The Tisburys have slowly been evolving their sound record to record and have landed on a particularly inspired form of modern power pop with Still Life Revisited, their fourth effort. Musically, the songs are punctuated with horns, synth, and stellar harmonies throughout, while lyrically, the band manages to tackle some pretty […]

We are entering a new era of Ghost, the young metal purist. Earlier this year, the band announced Tobias Forge, known professionally as Papa V Perpetua, as their new frontman, and we are just weeks away from their latest LP, Skeletá, their first studio album since 2022’s IMPERA. With the release date for the 10-track […]

A longtime lyricist in the Advanced BMI Songwriting Workshop and an award-winning indie filmmaker (most recent project: directing/editing two music videos for Amy Helm / Sun Records), Cleo Handler splits time between LA and NY. Her new album, compare & contrast, was recorded with Claire Morison at Wild Horizon Sound in Los Angeles. On her […]

Untold River is an artist shaped by both the places he’s called home and the timeless sounds of his youth. Having lived in Manchester, the Midlands of Ireland, Seattle, and now the California coast, his journey is woven into his music, which carries a blend of alt-country and Irish folk. Raised on the sounds of […]

This summer the Newport Jazz Festival will return to Fort Adams State Park in Rhode Island for the iconic cultural institution’s 71st edition. One of the longest running and most storied festivals in America will return August 1-3 where it will continue to host once in a lifetime performances that only Newport’s unique alchemy of intimacy and artistic community can bring. Newport Jazz Festival is […]