There are definitely a few issues when it comes to live albums. For one, you can’t see the band. And when said band is known for their showmanship, and I put the emphasis on “man” here, you kind of lose everything the band is known for. However, if...
Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel, the he and she music factory known as Mates of State, have confirmed the May 2008 release and track listing for their fifth full length album, Re-Arrange Us. The album is argued to carry the most complex tunes put out by these...
If you haven’t slept in about ninety-six hours, the world is a very strange place. Edges don’t look clean anymore—they sort of vibrate with an energy like snow on a television screen—your eyes have difficulty focusing and the most mundane things...
Oscar Wilde once wrote that “The difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.” In the case of Gutter Twins founders Greg Dulli (ex-Afghan Whigs, Twilight Singers) and Mark Lanegan (ex-Screaming...
Matt Costa has played all over the world to huge crowds. He's been mobbed in airports and had fans who don't speak English sing along word for word. Yet to launch his new record Unfamiliar Faces, Costa headed back home to Southern California to rest, relax and...
Invariably at the beginning of any young band’s career, its members have to decide what the future will look like for their group. Such decisions usually happen after the group’s first release; at that point the pressure’s off, they’ve gone in...
Walking into a half-filled Fillmore, I was a bit unsure of what to expect to say the least. I have always been a huge fan of the New York Dolls, but when a band is touring 35 years after their heyday, and only 2 of the 5 founding members are still alive, wouldn't...
As promised, we will continue to get the best of the best new music into your eardrums, and if we’re lucky, we’ll get best of the best music into your iPods. This edition features an artist that GC loves, and an actress-turned-singer that GC loves (She...
After their first resurrection in 1998, it seemed the godfathers of goth rock were finally in a coffin somewhere. Just like Dracula though, this undead band is one that’s impossible to kill off without that lucky wooden stake. Go Away White is Bauhaus’...