By DONNA BALANCIA Composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross took home an Academy Award Sunday for Best Original Score for their work on the Pixar animated film Soul. The Nine Inch Nails duo shared their Oscar win […]
By AVA LIVERSIDGE There aren’t many loud bands left. A Place to Bury Strangers is one of them and their latest EP, Hologram, keeps the torch aflame for staggering listening to come. The Brooklynite and […]
Pod-Based, Limited-Cap Outdoor Shows Feature California’s Finest By JOHN DALY A new series, Music is the Soul of Life, highlights the Joshua Tree Music Festival Spring 2021. The event is a pod-based, physically distant, limited-capacity […]
By AVA LIVERSIDGE The latest record from California duo New Bums, Last Time I Saw Grace, adopts darkened acoustics behind terse, timely lyrics. Genially dubbed “Old Drunk America” by their record label, Drag City, and […]
By AVA LIVERSIDGE Rogér Fakhr was escaping the Lebanese Civil War when he should have been entering the ’70s singer-songwriter canon with his record Fine Anyway. Maybe today, we can afford the artist his rightful […]
By JOHN DALY Hall and Oates have updated their upcoming tour to include California dates at The Hollywood Bowl, San Diego and Indio in October and November. Hall and Oates kick off the tour on […]
By DAN MACINTOSH One recent reviewer of Lake Street Dive’s Obviously album termed it a contemporary example of “Yacht Rock” and, granted, much of the music on the new 11-song project leans towards smooth jazz. However, […]
By JOHN DALY Nancy Wenstrom has released another remarkable track called “Vintage Tears,” which captures the stored emotions many people have been feeling for the last year. The track is off her album, Inside Story, […]
By HANNAH MEANS-SHANNON Christian Liljegren is best known as the lead singer of the ongoing Melodic Metal band Narnia, but also sang for Divine Fire, and more recently launched a more modern Metal project, The […]
By AVA LIVERSIDGE Cristina Vane is on a trek to reclaim her American heritage and she’s searched high-and-low, taking Southern music traditions and sprinkling them across the country: Bars, coffee shops, and backyards. Vane is […]
By JOHN DALY On his latest single, award-winning producer, singer-songwriter, composer and sound engineer Chris Birkett brings listeners to emotional high notes with “Precious Love.” As the story goes, Birkett was performing with Buffy Sainte-Marie, at a […]
By AVA LIVERSIDGE Carnage, the most recent conception of Australian gothic rocker Nick Cave and composer/multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis, boasts such a palpable and visceral vision, it rivals film in affectation. This record is Cave and […]
Rickie Lee Jones Gives Virtual Chat April 10 By JOHN DALY Rickie Lee Jones tells her life story in her new book, “Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour” in which she captures life […]
By JOHN DALY The music industry has changed radically over the years. Of course, a lot of this comes down to digitalization. Once upon a time, if you wanted a band’s new album, you would […]
Taylor Makes Acceptance Speech from Ski Lift By JOHN DALY Veteran songwriters took the spotlight at the 63rd annual GRAMMY Awards on Sunday as James Taylor, Chick Corea and Dolly Parton were among the big […]
Taylor Makes Acceptance Speech from Ski Lift By JOHN DALY Veteran songwriters took the spotlight at the 63rd annual GRAMMY Awards on Sunday as James Taylor, Chick Corea and Dolly Parton were among the big […]
Concert to ‘Circumnavigate’ The Earth By JOHN DALY The Wave Of Love Festival, a massive, global 24-hour live music event, will take place on September 18, 2021. Viewers will not have to leave their homes […]
By AVA LIVERSIDGE Without Getting Killed or Caught gives unique insight into the legendary life, love, and art of Texan songwriting denizen Guy Clark, memorializing his mainstay in the classic country catalogue and American aural history. […]
By JOHN DALY Los Angeles-based punk rocker Ben Conley is appreciative for the little things in life. Like a breakup. Even though it was a painful one, Conley took the twisted wreckage and made a […]
By DAN MACINTOSH UB40 has just rereleased its debut album, which is ironically titled Signing Off. It’s ironic because when Signing Off was originally released in 1980, this was the sound of a new band just […]
By JOHN DALY The DoGs have released the ripping new track “Under The Coast,” accompanied by a killer video directed by Frank Meyer blending hot surf action with rebel Rock ‘N’ Roll. “Under The Coast” […]
By JOHN DALY The DoGs have released the ripping new track “Under The Coast,” accompanied by a killer video directed by Frank Meyer blending hot surf action with rebel Rock ‘N’ Roll. “Under The Coast” […]
By PATRICK O’HEFFERNAN Matt Jaffe has hit his stride with his latest album, Undertoad. I have been following Jaffe since he was 14 and playing hugely good guitar at a house concert series in Northern […]
By AVA LIVERSIDGE There are a lot of musicians in our contemporary age that slap a moment of steel slide guitar on their record and call it “blues-inspired,” maybe even the blues. Danny Kroha’s Detroit […]
By JOHN DALY A Cajon drum or a box drum is one that has become fairly popular in recent years due to acoustic and coffeehouse-style shows. The Cajon drum offers a great range of sounds […]
By JOHN DALY Patrick Ames has an uncanny knack for seizing the sentiment of the day, and with his newest single, “Rubber & Glue” the singer-songwriter fondly captures the textures youth. “We were kids in […]
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