Mac DeMarco To Release New Album, Here Comes The Cowboy
Mac DeMarco released his last album, This Old Dog, back in 2017 (May 5). This Old Dog helped break through to a worldwide audience, giving Mac his largest charting album…
Nine Inch Nails Releases “Strobe Light” Online (For Real)
Exactly ten years ago to this day – April Fool’s Day – Trent Reznor “released” the Nine Inch Nails album, Strobe Light. It was a joke. There were music samples…
Calexico, Iron & Wine Rejoin To Produce New Album, Years To Burn
Both Calexico, and Iron & Wine (Sam Beam) have met in the studios to create the 2005 collaborated EP, In The Reins. Combining indie Tex-Mex and Folk-styled alternative, that collection…
Big Big Train Will Take Listeners on the Grand Tour
having mined the treasures of the English countryside and industry for well over a decade, Big Big Train will now further explore the legacy of 17th & 18th Century European…
Jesse Colin Young To Release Dreamers On CD and LP
Jesse Colin Young has been with us musically since the ’60s with his still beloved song with The Youngbloods, “Get Together”. (If the title throws you, one listen to the…
Singled Out: “Evermore” by Devin Townsend
“Evermore” picks up the gauntlet thrown by “Genesis,” smacks its listeners across the cheek Bugs Bunny style, then slams the gauntlet back down on the concrete.
Black Mountain To Release New Album, Destroyer
It’s hard to believe that three years have passed since the release of IV, the excellent fourth album from the Vancouver band, Black Mountain. But time does that, especially if…
Richard Hawley Returns With New Album, Further
Richard Hawley has previously been with Longpigs, and Pulp, but enjoyed more visibility as a solo artist. With seven long play studio albums in release, Richard Hawley has courted and…
Stray Cats Celebrate 40 Years With a New Album, 40
Stray Cats handily captured the imagination of an MTV-obsessed world with their by now classic hits, “Stray Cat Strut”, and “Rock This Town”, both from their 1981 UK set, Stray…
Review: Queensryche, “The Verdict”
My success as a sketch artist peaked in high school. I had two reliable audiences that looked to me for work, and if they’d actually paid me, I’d be a…
Graham Parker Celebrates 40th Anniversary of Squeezing Out Sparks With Solo Acoustic
You can’t rave too loudly about the changing and near perfect time of the late ’70s without giving honorable and up front mention of Graham Parker & The Rumour. After…
The Dream Syndicate Returns With New Album, These Times
The Dream Syndicate arrived to music in 1982 with their Slash Records classic, The Days of Wine and Roses. In short order, Kendra Smith left for other pastures, and the…