Above all else, what True North proves definitively is that Bad Religion has made three kinds of record in the duration of their three-decades-and-counting career; they've made really bad albums (see Into The Unknown and No Substance), good albums (see The Dissent...
Remember the first time you heard Was (Not Was)? It was weird, right? Here was this band who could knock out awesome rhythm tracks – great beats, good guitars and a kind of worldly spice – and it had some totally oddball vocal track on top of it which was...
Maybe it's because the roots-and-folk musical landscape has just become so over-populated with new and excellent songwriters (like The Lumineers, Grey Kingdom, Daniel Romano and so on), but it's really difficult to get excited about Jimbo Mathus' new album...
Hey Junky,How's it goin'? Stuff's been slow in my neck o' the woods; one o' my suppliers OD'd on accident, so a buncha my buddies an' me've been flyin' the flags at half mast, if ya know what I mean. I can't stay down fer too...
Have you got the blues? Have you got a fire in you just aching to get out and feel like you only need the right tool to channel it, shape it and make it a reality? Innovative luthiers Bohemian Guitars knows exactly how you feel. The music and the fire that bred the...
At this point in history, it's nearly impossible for a female singer to perform meticulously arranged, jazz-informed songs in French without drawing at least a cursory comparison to Edith Piaf, but Jill Barber will generate such comparisons not because it's...
WAITS/CORBIJN ‘77-‘11, a collector’s edition linen slipcase book limited to 6,600 copies, is scheduled for a May 8th release in US and Europe by renowned German publisher Schirmer-Mosel. The coffee table art book not only features over...
No small number of fans will scream heresy when I say this but, as good a songwriter as he is, Neil Young really can't sing worth a damn. His shortcoming as a singer has always been the biggest reason why he has tread on the fringe while artists like Bob Dylan and...
It's funny how music industry trends have changed over the last twenty-five years. A quarter of a century ago, for example, Sub Pop had a reputation for being the little label that helped launch grunge and, while their stable of artists has been getting more...
Ground Control's Editor-In-Chief, Bill Adams, and I had a discussion recently about who might be this generation’s Led Zeppelin. That is, which of today’s bands might be able to maintain their popularity and influence thirty or forty years into the...