RE:Visit – Robert Plant, “Now And Zen” (1988)
Dw. Dunphy takes a deep dive into Robert Plant's career redefining solo album Now and Zen.
Review: The Flaming Lips, “King’s Mouth – Music and Songs”
Arriving in 1983, the band The Flaming Lips was already an anachronism, unapologetically psychedelic, and prone to agitating against the mainstream even as it longingly gave it some side-eye. That…
ALBUM REVIEW: THE GOLD NEEDLES, “Through A Window”
Another new signing from Marty Scott’s legendary Jem Records, The Gold Needles, who hail from Hull, U.K., are arbiters of 60’s-influenced psychedelic/power-pop prove with an album that one can automatically…
The MusicTAP Interview: Amy Petty
After two profound records, Mystery Keeps You (2008) and House of Doors (2010), musician Amy Petty seemed to fall off the face of the earth. Aside from a very well-crafted…
Anneke van Giersbergen Recording New Acoustic Solo Album
Now, for the first time, van Giersbergen is preparing a solo acoustic album. Recorded with engineer Gijs Coolen (with whom van Giersbergen collaborated on the aforementioned Drive), the upcoming album…
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…
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 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…
Singles Bar: Thoughts On “Old Town Road” And More
Also featuring new tracks by The Successful Failures, Vegas With Randolph, and a run-down of Billboard's Top Ten this week.
Singled Out: “Catch Light” by Bent Knee
But Swain’s vocal delivery and the organ stabs punctuating the chorus paint it plain. This is a gospel song. This is indeed something drastically new.