GARDEN STATE HIP-HOP & MAKIN WAVES PRESENTS SUMMER RAP N’ ROCK TOUR THIS SUMMER
10 rotating music acts & two DJs at seven dates in six cities includes stops in Philadelphia, Jersey City, Trenton, Brooklyn, New Brunswick and two in Asbury Park.
Album Review: Luxury, “Trophies”
Luxury has a new album titled Trophies. It’s the result of 2015 Kickstarter campaign, where fortunate supporters received an advance copy of it. However, it was not officially released in…
Profile: David Mnemo returns to his roots in Pittsburgh
At a Pennsylvania house party around 2007, Penn State students John Dubosky and Eric Goeller heard a sound that blew their minds. “There was this infectious bass line coming from…
Brittany Howard (Alabama Shakes) Returns With Debut Solo Album, Jaime
Back in 2012, a band by the name of Alabama Shakes went on to surprise a lot of fans with their soulful and bluesy rock and roll. With the release…
Review: Spheruleus – “Light Through Open Blinds”
Fifteen years ago, the definition of ambient music, even the initiation to ambient music, was very different. But, even by the standards of the day, Untitled was an odd duck.…
Review: The Raconteurs, “Help Us Stranger”
2019 has been a surprisingly strong year for guitar-oriented rock music. You wouldn’t know it from the Billboard Top 100 which remains fully committed to trap, hip hop, and EDM-based…
Review: The Austerity Program – “Bible Songs 1”
I’m not sure which version of the King James Bible Thad Calabrese and Justin Foley are thumbing through, but I don’t remember the incantation “You motherfuckers!” appearing in the Book…
50th Anniversary Remix Of Chicago Transit Authority Planned
When the band known then as Chicago Transit Authority released their first album, it was 1969. The self-titled album would generate three timeless hits, “Beginnings”, “Does Anybody Really Know What…
Review: Shellac – The End of Radio
Bootlegs of Shellac’s first BBC session with the legendary king-maker John Peel started surfacing fast on the heels of its airing, way, way back in 1994. And it remains readily…
OMPS Classic Of Alice’s Restaurant With Arlo Guthrie Receives 50th Anniversary Shine – CD, DD, LP
Arlo Guthrie has great music pedigree when it comes to “following in the footsteps of…”. His father was the great Woody Guthrie. Back in the ’60s, Arlo made a name…
Review: Schiit Modi 3 Digital Audio Converter
It was around this time last year that I had to bite the bullet and replace my Blu-ray player. The mechanism that slides the tray in and out of the…
Review: Echo In The Canyon – Film
I can’t fathom the notion that a documentary about the origins of the “California Sound” from the sixties would be available for viewing in the cultural backwater of Orange County…