Hey junky, Well, I guess I dunnit – I pissed off the gods o' South By Southwest, ann'ey decided ta fight fire wit' napalm; they hit me wit' alla da music I could handle – ann'en some! 'At's right junky, I've got the...
Hey junky,Well, I guess I dunnit – I pissed off the gods o' South By Southwest, ann'ey decided ta hit me wit' alla da music I could handle – ann'en some! 'At's right junky, I've got the muthafuckin' muthaload fer youse dis...
Remember back at the dawn of punk, when no one really had a “sound” or a “genre” or a banner to stand under, the artists just had something they wanted to say, an urgent desire to get it out of them and a bad attitude? Some readers certainly do...
Get Up! is an album that had to happen eventually; the question is why did it take so long? It unites two generations of bluesmen (Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite were born twenty-five years apart) and, in the process, demonstrates the universality of the blues...
Now in their forty-forth year, seminal progressive rock band Yes brought their current tour to San Francisco last week and proved that not only has time treated them well, but that they can still deliver the trademark songs that made them a staple of rock radio....
It’s hard to think of pop punk sweethearts that are hotter than Teenage Bottlerocket and Masked Intruder right now. As they are both It’s Alive Records alums that have since moved onto Fat Wreck (and found success there, might I add), it only made sense to...
The cover of The Next Day takes the cover image of "Heroes" and slaps a white box over it, containing the title. This, combined with the first single and video, ("Where Are We Now?" which looks back on Bowie's time in Berlin in the...
For the last twenty-nine years, The Cannanes have been called “Australia's secret pride” and “the world's most indie band” because they've become a respected name and institution on the power of world of mouth. In the span of their...
Any listener who claims that they ever expected anything which sounds like Old Sock from Eric Clapton is a liar. Granted, the guitarist has sampled a wide variety of sounds and styles over the span of his fifty-year career; he's been a blues breaking inspiration, a...
Sometimes it's reassuring to hear a new record and be able to trace its lineage back to its precise point of origin – from a sonic standpoint. Take Green Day for example; author Stephen Frears wasn't wrong when he wrote that the origins of the band's...