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Shovels & Rope - By Blood
Halfway through the latest album "By Blood" from Shovels and Rope, Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst sing pleadingly, almost desperately, to each other, "Carry me home, I'm no good when...
John Shakespear - Spend Your Youth
John Shakespear’s first full-length solo album Spend Your Youth delivers a brightly atmospheric swell of nostalgia for childhood dreams and first romances – for simpler times. But Shakespear...
Interview with Quarry
Super talented Multi-instrumentalist Indie Rock Solo Artist/Singer-Songwriter and Pinball Wizard Vittorio Tolomeo, the genius behind European artist Quarry, releases his new album “Super- Arcade”...
Talking with the Creators of Metal Swim 2
The first thing I notice in talking with Adult Swim creative team Laura Sterritt and Jason DeMarco about the new Metal Swim 2 compilation is their unabashed love for all things metal. You can tell that...
Silvertung - But At What Cost??!
Baltimore's Silvertung deal in a melodic but pummeling brand of modern hard rock with it's roots stretching back to mid-era thrash and late '90s nu-metal, but firmly accessible to rock radio...
An Interview with 311
The Epicenter Festival is hosting a wide variety of bands during its inaugural event, including but not limited to well known nataional acts like Korn, Foo Fighters, and Tool. We had the opportunity to...
Peter Frampton To Win Award and Release Final Album At Music Biz 2019
Grammy Award winner, Peter Frampton, is set to release his final album, All Blues, at the Music Biz 2019 conference in Nashville, TN on May 7th. It will feature a collection of his favorite blues classics...
Epicenter Festival Set for Rockingham, NC
The Carolina Rebellion Festival in Rockingham, NC has been replaced by a new festival featuring some of the biggest rock names around. The inaugural Epicenter Festival, a three-day event, will happen May...
Letting Loose with Luthi
There is one common mantra shared by all the members of "The Boogie Circus" known as LUTHI: Keep it weird. With influences including old school R&B, psychedelic funk, and New Wave 80's...
A Hidden Gem: Pedal Steel On Today’s Music Scene
Pink Floyd uses it to launch into the ethereal opening riffs of Dark Side of the Moon, drawing on its unique character and ability to evoke an aura of feeling. Led Zeppelin sprinkles it throughout its...
An Overview of the Underhill Family Orchestra
The Underhill Family Orchestra is a group of five multi-talented musicians that make their home in Alabama. Though they may not be family by blood, they are in every other sense of the word. With bonds...
Carsie Blanton - Buck Up
New Orleans conjures different images for everyone. Whether you’ve spent time there or not, odds are you’ve heard tell of the free-flowing libations, the Bourbon Street shenanigans, the colorful...
A New Album and Interview with Dan Bowskill
From the soil of Ghana and England grew a young man inspired by the greats such as Aswad, Gregory Isaac and Bob Marley and the Wailers. Thirsty for creation, he followed his calling that made him bloom...
Greek Artist Marinos Tokas Releases "Silogi"
Unknown to many, I am a convert to Greek Orthodoxy, albeit a pretty slack one. That hasn't kept me from working many Greek Festivals over the last dozen or so years though! As such, I've learned...
Rebelle Road Returns for SXSW 2019
Rebelle Road is heading to Texas once again with shows amplifying and highlighting women in the country/roots genres. The California event management company has dedicated itself to women in music and...
On a Mission by Bloody Times
Bloody Times is the brainchild of German metal musician Simon Pfundstein, a bassist and songwriter who has taken the blueprint Dave Grohl gave us in 2004 with his Probot project and ran with it; a group...
Interview with 500 Miles to Memphis
For 16 years now, some form of 500 Miles to Memphis has been making music that is hard to categorize and more importantly, hard to stop listening to. Although the lineup changed a bit early on, the...
Dopamine Noir by Pain in the Yeahs
If you like music about isolation, blood and vampires, but still like to hoist a few with your friends, you will love Pain In The Yeahs new LP – Dopamine Noir. James K. Ultra started experimenting...
Interview with Todd Morse
Todd Morse, a guitarist and vocalist who has toured with great bands such as H2O, Juliette and the Licks, and The Offspring has been on our radar for decades. However, we have never seen him record an...
NOWthen by Rich Krueger
Rich Krueger’s earnest baritone voice, reminiscent of The Band’s Rick Danko, implores us to listen right from the beginning of his new album NOWThen. By day Krueger is a neonatologist at the...
Jaguar Dreams Bares Its Teeth
Every once in a while, you stumble across a band that digs its claws into your subconscious and refuses to let go. Jaguar Dreams is one of those bands. Made up of three musicians currently residing in...
"Late Bloomer" by Todd Morse
After more than two decades in the music business, Todd Morse is setting out to prove that age is truly nothing but a number with his debut album "Late Bloomer". Based out of Los Angeles, Morse...
Sarang V Interview
When we think of Indian music in the West, much like with Jazz, for many its complexity tends to shut off our minds. But, as with our special guest Sarang V. when it's fused with Contemporary, Electro,...
Hip Hop "Highlife": A quick look at the Ghana music scene
Ghana has come a long way in modernization since gaining its independence from Britain as "British Gold Coast". Music has grown from its traditional African tribal folk tunes to an emerging...
Gasoline Gypsies - Vagabundos
All in their mid-20's and with a collective past of rock and bluegrass anchoring their sound, Port Huron, Michigan's Gasoline Gypsies are making the old seem new again. With a sound that's...