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 1965. The first record I ever got was the Flowers LP by the Rolling Stones. My dad gave it to me. The first band I ever loved though was The...
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 are some things that stick in my craw. Why not create a new sounding progressive-rock sound? Why rehash what has already been done so well over the years? These are new songs, but they...
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 that surround death and other dark matters. What they are is a rare Internet phenomenon, made possible in this day and age. Go ahead and type their name into...
February – 29 – Miami, FL: Airtime Theater March – 01 – Orlando, FL – The Social 02 – Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse 03 – Chapel Hill, NC – Great Hall (UNC – Chapel Hill) 04 – Asheville, NC – Orange Peel 05 – Washington, DC – Sixth & I Historic Synagogue 06 – New York, NY – Terminal 5 (Plug Awards) 07 – Tarrytown, NY – The Tarrytown Music Hall 08 – Philadelphia, PA – World Café 09...
It’s hard to believe that’s it’s only been 40 years since the release of one of the most influential and important albums of our time, The Zombies’ Odessey and Oracle. Well, maybe it's not that hard to believe. To celebrate the anniversary of this psychedelic phenomenon, original Zombie Colin Blunstone posted the following message on his personal website colinblunstone.co.uk: By public demand………….extra show added at the Shepherds Bush Empire ……Sunday 9th March 2008, tickets now on...
Virtually everyone in the music industry (including musicians themselves) agrees that there's a certain stigma attached to making guitar-dominated rock ‘n’ roll: it's painfully simple to do; it's kiddie play. While doing interviews in support of Nevermind, Dave Grohl even went so far as to say that Nirvana went out of their way to ensure that the songs on the record were very simply constructed and stark, "like the songs you used to sing when you were a kid," according...
Danish rockers, The Raveonettes, will embark on a North American tour in February in support of their Vice Records debut, Lust Lust Lust. The jaunt will be preceded by a lone stop alongside Blonde Redhead at New York's Terminal 5 later this month. Set to kick off ten days after the record's release on February 19th, the tour will wind its way across the States and the Great White North, making an extended stop in Austin, Texas for this year's...
Everyone’s favorite psych-and-folk-rock pioneers, Black Mountain, are back on the road for an early 2008 tour in support of their second full-length album, In The Future. The band has toured the world, playing everything from the smallest of rock clubs to the largest of outdoor amphitheaters, yet have succeeded in maintaining live performances with universal appeal. Even though they are championed by the more underground-minded record-collector type of music geek as well as by high-profile musicians such as Wayne Coyne...
Johnathan Rice, the 24 year-old raspy-voiced talent out of Virgina, is still riding high on the wave of positive press he received for his recent release Further North. Despite his seeming perpetual existence within the shadow of Oberst, Rice has been winning fans across the country thanks to his impressive live performances, opening for bands such as Rilo Kiley, The Redwalls, Martha Wainwright and Wilco, and with his charming sensitivity enticing audiences to the musical destinations of his choice. Now...
White Denim’s newest free single, “Paint Silver Gold,” was released today on the hottest label on earth, RCRD LBL. The song sounds like a mix between early Jimi Hendrix and The Who’s “The Real Me,” and I would consider that a good thing. "Paint Silver Gold" is the second single from the group's RCRD LBL EP, which is available for legal and free download only at RCRD LBL.com, and will feature four songs with a new track being released every...