Archive: 2025

Neil Young and his new band, The Chrome Hearts, have officially announced the ‘Love Earth’ World Tour for 2025. The tour kicks off on June 18 in Rättvik, Sweden, covering various European and UK cities before heading to North America. The North American leg begins on August 8 in Charlotte, NC, and concludes on September […]

Heavy metal legends PANTERA are pleased to announce their 2025 US Summer amphitheater tour! Produced by Live Nation, the journey will commence on July 15th in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania and wind its way through over two dozen cities, coming to a close on September 13th in West Palm Beach, Florida. Support will be provided by Swedish heavy metal icons […]

See Night is a musical project by Los Angeles-based guitarist and singer-songwriter Linda Sao, who performs both solo and with a powerhouse band featuring drummer Cory Aboud, guitarist Patrick Andrews, and bassist AJ Marquez. Known for their explosive live performances, See Night has shared stages with Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Widowspeak, Matthew Logan Vasquez (Delta Spirit), […]

For whatever reason, the public has always been open to actors personifying musicians and actually singing their parts. This is especially top of mind lately as music nerds endlessly debate Timothée Chalamet’s performance as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown, and Jeremy Allen White is gearing up to be Bruce Springsteen in a new biopic. […]

As we head into the final week of Black History Month, it only seems fitting to pay tribute to one of the greatest soul and funk record labels of all time: Stax. While admittedly not as infamous as its main rival, Motown, Stax was stacked (say that 5 times fast) with legends in its own […]

Upon the release of their first album, Magnolia, it was tempting to consider it piano trio jazz in the conventional swinging or even avant-garde sense, it is not, nor is it an imitator of the early The Bad Plus sound or the kind of R&B you associate with the major group comprising pianist Steve Okonski and […]

Apart from Capricorn Records’ flagship artist, the Allman Brothers Band, Wet Willie was the most distinctive signee to the label Phil Walden built and nurtured upon the success of so-called Southern rock. Emphasizing blues, soul, and R&B influences in tight, compact performances, Willie had a mind and personality of its own right from the start. Hence, it’s no surprise that […]

It’s rather hard to believe that the jazz supergroup Artemis has been together, albeit in different configurations, for nine years. The label ‘all-female jazz supergroup’ was used almost universally when they first emerged. Yet, in some ways, that diminishes the power and the status they have attained, having been voted the finest working group in […]

With the release of his album Manning Fireworks, the young Asheville, North Carolina guitar slinger Jake Lenderman aka MJ Lenderman has experienced a meteoric rise. Lenderman has been chugging along for a handful of years with a reinvigorated interpretation of the sort of alt-country and indie rock that caught fire in the late 80s and […]

In these Caustic introductions, we talk a lot about how each week feels like it could compete to be the most exciting collection of new releases in 2025. You may think it’s hyperbolic for the sake of it, but when you’re in a whirlwind of realized anticipation that is quickly filled with even more excitement, […]

TajMo – the historic collaboration between two generations of American music masters – have announced their long-awaited return with Room On The Porch, a new full-length album out May 23 on Concord Records. The ten-song collection finds Keb’ Mo’ and Taj Mahal reuniting for their first release together since 2017. “That first album turned out […]

Calling the following built by the San Francisco punk Dead Kennedys a fanbase would be doing a grave injustice to what this band accomplished. Think of a cult without all the negative stereotypes, a religion without its strict rules, a divine deity, and more of a dedicated mass hellbent on simply making sure everyone who […]

The Los Angeles-based folk-punk artist/activist Sunny War’s seventh studio effort, Armageddon In A Summer Dress, continues her sonic evolution following 2023’s breakthrough Anarchist Gospel.  Coming off touring for that record, Sunny moved into her late father’s house in Chattanooga and began conversing with ghosts, writing the album about their presence. It turns out that major gas leaks in the old […]

After a six-year hiatus, The Young Mothers returns with their long-awaited third album, Better If You Let It. The band is a genre-agnostic supergroup influencing music in Austin, New York, Chicago, and Scandinavia. They began when Norwegian bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten moved to Austin, TX, in 2009,  a melting pot of music styles that encouraged him to form […]

John Prine was able to craft strong messages in rather constructed songs. Although singer-songwriter Paul Thorn carries Prine’s torch, let’s not yet crown him Prine’s successor. Prine stands alone, and Thorn would be way too humble to consider such. But let’s credit him for absorbing Prine’s inspiration and delivering messages in his singular fashion. Thorn […]

Dr. Rift is a musical project by Western Canadian Music Award-winning artist Kyle Halldorson of Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is a hypnotic, emotional blend of Psych Rock, Alternative, and Prog that pulses with his Indigenous/Celtic roots. It is a complex, cathartic, and catchy bloodletting of grief and anxiety to honor the dead, the living, and the […]

Self-described as an indie-rock band for the weary masses, MAN LEE is based in Brooklyn, formed by way of I-95. Songwriters and namesake of the band Sam Reichman and Tim Lee began writing together while living between Richmond, D.C, and Baltimore before finding their collaborators back in New York. Reichman’s vocals range from tight bedroom […]

Trevor Powers, Youth Lagoon’s producer/singer/songwriter, has established himself as a modern mystic. Powers’ music consistently has his personality at its core, bending his own truths into poetic anthems for all. His writing never fears vulnerability, and his production exceeds the norms and rules, allowing the vivid imagery he depicts to become palpable and swallow the […]