Classic Album Review: The BellRays | Grand Fury

This album came out back in 2001 (or at least that's when I got my review copy). Here’s what I said about it then (with some minor editing):   Bumblebees, they...

Classic Album Review: LeAnn Rimes | I Need You

This album came out back in 2001. Here’s what I said about it then (with some minor editing):   Kids these days. Five years ago in 1996, LeAnn Rimes sounded like...

Submission Accomplished | 9 Great Finds From the Digital Mailbag

Thanks to the inexplicable popularity of my Submit Music page, I always have a digital backlog of albums, EPs, singles and videos awaiting my perusal. Here are the latest...

20 Questions With Ben de la Cour

If you haunt these pages, Ben de la Cour’s name oughta ring a bell by now. I raved about the Nashville singer-songwriter's terrifyingly terrific ‘Americanoir’ album Shadow Land HERE;...

SPEAK Music Be Kind Festival Going Virtual for 2021

Following a spectacularly successful first year, organizers of the Second Annual SPEAK MUSIC Be Kind Festival – taking place Feb. 5 & 6, 2021, as a free virtual event...

Next Week in Music | Feb. 1-7 • The Short List: 6 Titles On...

Dave Grohl and Foo Fighters’ 10th studio album Medicine At Midnight is obviously the big enchilada of the week — but no es el único plato del menú, if you...

Next Week in Music | Feb. 1-7 • The Long List: 270+ Releases On...

The shortest month of the year isn't short on new music. Not this week, anyway. See for yourself:     Rod Abernethy | Normal Isn’t Normal Anymore Acloudyskye | Blood Rushing Like Current...

Next Week in Music | Feb. 1-7 • New Books

More pictures of Zimmy than anybody really needs. All the punk nostalgia you could ever want. And a musical SF fable from a veteran bassist. The upcoming week's new...

Next Week in Music | Feb. 1-7 • On TV

Sorry, Foo fans: Unless they're planning some sort of big surprise, Dave Grohl and his Fighers aren't storming the late-night TV landscape to preview their imminent Medicine At Midnight...

Now Hear This: Mudhoney | Real Low Vibe The Reprise Recordings 1992-1998

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: "Having emerged in 1989 and become a mainstay of the American alternative scene, Mudhoney moved from Sub Pop to Reprise Records and produced three outstanding...

Now Hear This: Kreisky | Atlantis

THE TRANSLATED PRESS RELEASE: "There is no sea on the new Kreisky album, no sunken island kingdom and no Indiana Jones diving for it. And yet the title Atlantis...

Heremotionss | Running: Exclusive Single Premiere

Heremotionss has cold feet about a new love in her intoxicating new single Running — premiering exclusively on Tinnitist. A compelling chronicle of the early stages of romance and the...

Now Hear This: Electric Yawn | Spice Must Flow

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: "Second album by one-piece psychedelic stoner rock band Electric Yawn. All recorded and mixed in a dark room in Western Sydney, Australia.” That's pretty much all...

Now Hear This: Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio | I Told You So

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: "Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio — or as they are sometimes referred to, DLO3 — specialize in the lost art of “feel good music.” The ingredients...

Now Hear This: Crazy Arm | Dark Hands, Thunderbolts

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: "Dark Hands, Thunderbolts is Devon punk-roots trailblazers Crazy Arm’s fourth album, and comes cold on the calves of 2013's The Southern Wild. A return to the...

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