Welsh rockers Super Furry Animals were a tasty take and Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks didn’t disappoint as the 5th annual Village Voice 4 Knots Festival made the transition to a ticketed event and enjoyed its new digs on Pier 84 on Hudson River Park after 4 years at South Street Seaport, […]
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Micky Dolenz recorded an album to be released in September 2015 over three shows at Manhattan supper club 54 Below last week. The Monkee and childhood television actor, who has a brilliant run on stage as well, draws upon all of it in his show A Little Bit Broadway, A Little Bit Rock […]
Before his recent gig at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, I had a rare chance to sit down with an artist who has given us decades of innovative and engaging work: Paul Weller. The Modfather discussed his accomplished new album Saturns Pattern, among other things, and you can listen […]
Early 1970’s Leon Russell is certainly worthy of a documentary and this one, A Poem Is a Naked Person, has style. Filmmaker Les Blank was a character in his own right and somewhere along the filming fell out of favor with the artist. The film ended up on the shelf […]
I’m mad about hanging out at the Jazzfest – this year’s Montreal Jazz Festival 2015 being no exception. I ran amok with my video camera and got a taste of groups as far afield as Novalima, The Barr Brothers and Cibo Matto. Catching the Wayne Shorter Quartet was a highlight […]
Christopher Owens has written some amazing songs – both as a solo artist and as the lead singer and songwriter for now defunct indie rock band Girls – and there’s more on his new album Chrissybaby Forever. We grabbed some stoop time before his show at Baby’s All Right in […]
Anthrax has been kicking ass for 34 years! I spoke with Scott Ian about past, present, and future of the legendary thrash metal band backstage at Hammerstein Ballroom…
Before heading to Brooklyn for a Northside Festival show, rock duo Best Coast dropped by WFUV radio for a session. Their gig (with 3 additional touring members) is this Saturday June the 13th; the multi-faceted event runs June 8 – 14 2015. Prepare for the show by enjoying 2 interviews with the […]
Here’s a taste of the 2015 Governors Ball Music Festival action at Randall’s Island Park NYC this past weekend, June 5-7…
The music of Algiers is intense. Its rooted in drums and percussion that create mesmerizing rhythms. Rumbling bass adds momentum and depth while slashing guitar adds texture and urgency. Commanding vocals deliver lyrics that rail against post-colonial power imbalance and injustice. There is anger and intelligence. I spoke with lead […]
London based rock quartet The Vaccines just unleashed their third album English Graffiti. As the record wasn’t out yet when I saw them at SXSW, I was hearing songs like Dream Lover for the first time – and thinking they sounded great next to older material like Bad Mood. Those […]
Courtney Barnett was the ‘it’ girl at SXSW this year… everyone wanted to see her. After I saw her, I wanted to see her again…and again! Here are my favorite moments that will give you a good flavor for the indie rock singer-songwriter from Melbourne, Australia who will visit New […]
A live band up there with Bad Brains and Iggy Pop for manic energy and reckless abandon: Fishbone was featured in the very first Sound Advice report (along with Roger Waters) on NY1 in July of 2012. A couple of months before my third anniversary at NY1, The Bone was […]
As I was sitting at Madison Square Garden watching Eric Clapton, it hit me that it was 30 years ago almost to the month that I saw the man at the Worcester Centrum (setlist to that show) in one of my fist concerts. I was a couple of weeks shy […]
Here comes a Sydney, Australia outfit led by singer-songwriter Tim Rogers, aka Jack Ladder – he of the weighty baritone voice and wryly melancholic delivery – and supported by his accomplished backing band, The Dreamlanders, featuring guitarist Kirin J. Callinan who has a solo career as well. (Try his album […]
Here is the last of the hollandude.com Record Store Day 2015 exclusive giveaways! This is a “double A side” 7″ vinyl record – “Purple Haze/Freedom” – rock legend Jimi Hendrix playing live at the Atlanta Pop Festival in July 1970. Enter using the Rafflecopter box below. a Rafflecopter giveaway
Freedy Johnston plans to play the last Thursday of every month (for an unspecified period of time!) at the lovely and intimate Rockwood Music Hall beginning next Thursday April 30th 2015. Here’s a peek at a Joe’s Pub show and our chat shortly after he moved back to New York […]
Hollandude.com is giving away to one lucky entrant the Record Store Day 2015 exclusive 7″ vinyl record – “Touch Me I’m Dick” – by fictitious band Citizen Dick (really members of Pearl Jam). They were big in Belgium in the early 1990’s as explained by Cliff Poncier (Matt Dillion) in […]
San Fermin, who knocked my socks off at SXSW, release their new album Jackrabbit tomorrow and are a doing a pair of shows in Brooklyn this week. Here’s a look at their show in Austin and a conversation with Ellis Ludwig-Leone, Allen Tate, and Charlene Kaye …
Flashback to a quick Record Store Day 2013 hang with the mighty American musical pop artist Marshall Crenshaw 2 years ago…
I used to see The Sheila Divine a lot while living in Boston in the late 1990s. They were the kind of band who brought so much energy and power to the stage that I’d want to catch them any chance I could. I had my first chance to catch […]
New York Before The War is Jesse Malin’s first record in 5 years. The quintessential New York rocker spoke to me about it and let me roll some video on his mean band in their Lower East Side practice space. He’s at the Bowery Ballroom next Saturday…
You don’t have to be a Jesse Malin fan to appreciate this interview although it might make you one of the veteran rocker – only someone who loves New York…
Austin orchestral rock band Mother Falcon and South Florida hip hop string musician duo Black Violin both have roots in high school orchestras, are both wildly original and creative, and both played at St. David’s Bethell Hall as part of the SXSW Universal Music Classics showcase. There are few similarities […]
The debut studio album from Big Data, “2.0”, features songs inspired by the likes of Snowden/NSA and the Facebook mood experiments sung by an impressive gaggle of guests like Rivers Cuomo, Jamie Lidell, Twin Shadow, and Joywave. In the studio, Big Data is Brooklyn-based producer Alan Wilkis (whom I spoke with at […]