Review: Tool, “Fear Inoculum”
The new Tool album is good, but is it thirteen years good?
Review: The Successful Failures, “Saratoga”
The terms “honest” and “true” are most often prescribed to the following: When the situation and/or products are clearly neither, but the marketing team wants you to believe otherwise Foods…
Review: The Vapour Trails, “See You In The Next World”
Name off a list of the most influential bands ever. I’m sure you started with The Beatles. The Beach Boys? Agreed. How about The Velvet Underground and Black Sabbath? In…
Ed Sheeran, Sia, Rihanna, and the Other R-Word
Accusing Sheeran and Sia of the r-word. No, the other r-word.
RE: Visit — The Who, “Endless Wire” (2006)
After a long hiatus, the death of John Entwistle, and plenty of solo work, Pete Townshend reunites with Roger Daltrey on "Endless Wire"
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…