Next Week in Music | Sept. 19-25 • On TV
Smashing Pumpkins and Weezer. Panic! At The Disco and Black Eyed Peas. Sudan Archives and BlackPink. Courtney Barnett and Nathaniel Rateliff. If there's a theme to next week's televised-music...
Back Stories | My 2010 Interview With Hendrix Bassist Billy Cox
Since it's the anniversay of Jimi Hendrix’s death this week, I figured I'd dig a littler further into my files and resurrect this 2010 interview I did with Band...
Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
I did a quick tally to see how many of my own Area Resident songs have a person's name in the title. The answer is three: Louise, You Can't...
Thunder Pie | Everything Gonna Be Alright
Muddy Waters: Whooooooooa, yeah. (Pause). Whoa, yeah.
Johnny Winter: Whooo!
Muddy Waters: Everything. (Pause). Everything. (Pause). Everything gonna be alright this morning.
Johnny Winter: Yes and No! (?)
Muddy Waters: Ohhh yeah.
Johnny Winter:...
Albums Of The Week: No Age | People Helping People
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “No Age’s ethos sings to us from beyond the clouds, with words and without, a conceptual boost to everyone helping everyone. Ensconced in Randy’s Garage...
Area Resident’s Album Of The Week: Pink Floyd | Animals 2018 Remix Deluxe Edition
Fans have waited a long time for the ever-fighty and pedantic Pink Floyd to come to a consensus and release the remixed 1977 concept album Animals. When it comes...
Albums Of The Week: Jessie Reyez | Yessie
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Grammy-nominated, Juno-winning singer-songwriter Jessie Reyez’s sophomore album Yessie proves yet again she is an unstoppable force. Picking up where her 2020 debut studio album Before...
Albums Of The Week: The London Suede | Autofiction
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Autofiction is The London Suede’s ninth studio LP, and sees the band deciding to go back to basics. "Autofiction is our punk record,” frontman Brett...
Albums Of The Week: Clutch | Sunrise on Slaughter Beach
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Sunrise On Slaughter Beach has been chosen as the title for the 13th studio album from the perpetually touring indie-rockers Clutch.
Recording sessions for this opus...
Albums Of The Week: The Murlocs | Rapscallion
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “The sixth full-length from The Murlocs, Rapscallion is a coming-of-age novel in an album form, populated by an outrageous cast of misfit characters: Teenage vagabonds...
Albums Of The Week: Miles Davis | That’s What Happened 1982-1985: The Bootleg Series...
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “The latest chapter in the acclaimed Miles Davis Bootleg Series shines a fresh light on an underrated period of the musician’s restless career-spanning quest for...
Albums Of The Week: The Beths | Expert In A Dying Field
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “On The Beths’ new album Expert In A Dying Field, Elizabeth Stokes’ songwriting positions her somewhere between being a novelist and a documentarian. The songs...
Albums Of The Week: John Coltrane | Blue Train: The Complete Masters
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “On Sept. 15, 1957, John Coltrane went into Rudy Van Gelder’s living room studio in Hackensack, N.J., and recorded his first great masterpiece: Blue Train....
Albums Of The Week: Rhett Miller | The Misfit
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Rhett Miller’s new album The Misfit is The Old 97's frontman's first solo album in four years. The 11 songs that comprise The Misfit are...
Albums Of The Week: Creedence Clearwater Revival | Creedence Clearwater Revival At The Royal...
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “When Creedence Clearwater Revival stepped onto the Royal Albert Hall’s stage on April 14, 1970 — just days after The Beatles announced their breakup —...
