Black Oak Arkansas To Release New Album, Underdog Heroes
Black Oak Arkansas enjoyed their best years of rocking creativity back in the early ’70s with a count of nine classic studio albums, and several raucous live albums. Their main…
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…
#MetalMonday: “Head of a Pin” by Overkill
Every element of the song is driving, loud, aggressive...what more do you want from classic thrash in 2019?
Grateful Dead Celebrate 50th Anniversary Of Aoxomoxoa With 2CD, 1LP (Picture disc) Remaster
Despite the noticeable fact that older Rock music fans are still awaiting upgrades on some of their classic album favorites, it’s nice to know that some of the usual suspects…
RE:Visit – Alannah Myles, “Black Velvet” (1989)
It is just enough cattle to justify wearing the hat.
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…
The Era of the Abuse Anthem
The 1980s and early-1990s were strange for a lot of reasons. One of these is the odd collectives of theme that popped up here and there. It’s like pop culture…
Record Store Day 2019: A Guided Tour
MusicTAP’s vinyl aficionados present their top 3 platter picks for April 13’s Record Store Day.
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…
Pearl Harbor and The Explosions Debut Remastered and Expanded
When New Wave was finding its footing back in the latter parts of the ’70s, a band going by the name of Pearl Harbor and The Explosions was enjoying a…
Album Review: Gretchen’s Wheel – “Moth To Lamplight: A Tribute To Nada Surf”
In my conversations with Gretchen’s Wheel, also known as Lindsay Murray, she would cite the artists that informed her decision to get into music. There were usual suspects, of course,…