The Pixies had nothing but good things to say about their new bass player Paz Lenchantin and the show left nothing to be desired.
New Music Release
David Broza enlisted his friend Steve Earle as producer on his new album and they shared in a brilliant experience.
Tame Impala, “Elephant” (technically, last year I know but c’mon, it’s my fave of the whole year) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, “Jubilee Street” Lorde, “Royals” Josh Ritter, “Hopeful” Arctic Monkeys, “R U Mine?” Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes, “Love Letter” The White Buffalo, “Joey White” Billy Bragg, […]
1 The Lone Bellow; self-titled 2 Phosphorescent; Muchacho 3 Savoir Adore; Our Nature 4 Hunters; self-titled 5 So So Glos; Blowout 6 The Strokes; Comedown Machine 7 Yeah Yeah Yeahs; Mosquito 8 Minor Alps; Get There 9 Chelsea Light Moving; self-titled 10 Lucius; Wildewoman
1 Nick Cave; Push The Sky Away 2 Smith Westerns; Soft Will 3 The White Buffalo; Shadows, Greys & Evil Ways 4 Queens of The Stone Age; Like Clockwork 5 Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes; Baby Caught the Bus 6 Elvis Costello & The Roots; Wise Up Ghost 7 […]
When John Fogerty played The Beacon last month, he served up entire album worth of Creedence Clearwater Revival material. For a long time, that was unthinkable. Here he describes what he experienced while visiting Robert Johnson’s grave in the summer of 1990.
After going 25 years refusing to play the songs of his old band, John Fogerty tears it up with full albums from the old days after recording new versions of CCR tunes with star pals.
Dancehall Ace Mr. Vegas has worked with Beyonce, Wyclef Jean, Snoop, and Shaggy while dropping a pair of albums in eighteen months.
Placebo played just two shows in the states this year but one of them was in New York where I had a chat with Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal.
John McCauley dropped by NY1 on the release of the new Deer Tick album Negativity to talk about the record and play a couple of songs – just him and his acoustic.
The exceptional blues songstress Kirsten Thien played an unusual gig as part of the Society Cafe Concert Series at the Unitarian Church in Ridgewood, NJ.
Elvis Costello & The Roots celebrated the release of their collaborative album Wise Up Ghost with a show at the 600 person capacity Brooklyn Bowl. Audio of entire performance at WFUV.org.