Twenty years ago George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and Bob Dylan came together by chance, formed The Travelling Wilburys and inadvertently revitalized the careers of each member involved as, maybe in the spirit of competition, they remembered how to...
Living in Los Angeles for four years now and never attending a show at the House of Blues has to be some sick twist of fate. While scanning the L.A. Weekly a couple of months ago, I decided to put an end to this long-overdue visit to the venue by picking up a few...
San Fransisco troubadour Kelley Stoltz has released "Your Reverie," an mp3 teaser from his forthcoming album Circular Sounds, out February 5th on Sub Pop. The record is Stoltz's second full length on Sub Pop and his sixth overall release. Stoltz will be...
New York rockers The Walkmen are gearing up with indie-dancers White Rabbits for what might be a east coast hipster’s wet dream this Winter. Starting off in Pittsburgh on January 16th, the tour will wind across the US east coast making stops in Chicago, Phily,...
MySpace, the world’s most popular social network, today announced the Spring 2008 MySpace Music Tour, featuring the Grammy-nominated French electronic duo JUSTICE with support from Diplo, DJ Mehdi, Chromeo, Busy P and Fancy on select dates. Anyone that was paying...
Austin-based metal band The Sword announced today that they have completed work on their long-awaited follow-up to Age of Winters, titled Gods of the Earth. It’s set for an April 1, 2008 release via diverse NYC label Kemado Records. Recorded at Folkvang Studios...
Alright, alright, so 2007 was not a great year for the corporate machine. Sales of albums slumped and only the promise of an uninterrupted string of 5th-grade level ringtone rap songs has given the labels any peace. Oh, that and the honorable RIAA totally screwed that...
My name is Daryl, but you can call me Darko. My friends do anyway. I'm a bit of an old geezer (49 years young), and yeah, I've been a deadbeat too. I've been in love with rock music since I started listening to San Francisco's rock station KYA back in...
Retro-prog. Is there anything original left to be discovered in the world of rock ‘n’ roll? Well, if a band will write new songs with new meanings and new sounds, maybe. I want to write a positive sounding review of this really incredible album but there...
Vampire Weekend is not a Goth band. They are not a Death Metal act, either. Their songs do not employ the use of heavy guitars or lighting quick drum solos. Their lead singer, a Columbia grad by the name of Ezra Koenig, does not scream into the microphone or pen lyrics...