Next Week in Music | Feb. 4-10, 2019 • Anniversaries & Birthdays
I wouldn't want to live in the past. But I still like to visit every now and then. Here are the musical birthdays we'll be celebrating and the anniversaries...
Fred Penner | Somebody Believes: Exclusive Video Premiere
Fred Penner is celebrating Canadians who make a difference around the world with the new song Somebody Believes — premiering exclusively on Tinnitist.
The Juno-winning singer-songwriter, family entertainer and World...
Next Week in Music | Feb. 4-10, 2019 • Music on TV
I know you like to watch. So here's a list of the musicians who will be singing for their supper next week on the boob tube. Of course, everything...
Van Duren | Waiting: The Van Duren Story Original Documentary Soundtrack
He was in a band with two former members of Big Star. He was produced and managed by Andrew Loog Oldham. He made an album that had people calling...
Steve Gunn | The Unseen In Between
Unseen is about right. Not to mention unheard, unsung and unknown. Although he's been releasing solo albums for more than a decade — and even spent a brief stint...
Radar State | Strays
These days, you take your rock where you can get it. Thankfully, Radar State’s particular brand of rock isn't hard to take at all. The Kansas City emo supergroup...
Gum Takes Tooth | Arrow
We are as close to cataclysm as we've ever been. Figuratively speaking, at least. Thanks to a myriad of reasons that you already know about — or at least should...
Balthazar | Fever
All about that bass? Not quite. But it almost could be. If you agree with me that a great bassline is a thing of beauty, a joy to behold...
Keuning | Prismism
And then there were none. Or four, depending on your perspective. Killers lead guitarist and co-founder Dave Keuning — currently on hiatus from the band — is the fourth and...
Ian Brown | Ripples
Time flies when you're revisiting your past. Thanks at least in part to The Stone Roses' unexpectedly long-lived reunion, it's been nearly a decade since frontman Ian Brown released...
Le Butcherettes | bi/MENTAL
Suffering for your art is one thing. But what Teresa Suárez Cosío supposedly endured to create her band's fourth album takes it to another level. According to reports, the...
Guided By Voices | Zeppelin Over China
It's been almost 25 years since my first Guided By Voices gig. It was at the old Crocodile Cafe in Seattle in 1994, on their Insects of Rock Tour,...
The Specials | Encore • The Beat feat. Ranking Roger | Public Confidential
It may not be the dawning of a new era. But it is a reasonably enjoyable facsimile of an old one. Reconstituted 2-Tone titans The Specials and The Beat...
Rewinding The Good Old Days | The Top Stories of January 2019
Life moves fast these days. So fast that sometimes I can barely remember what happened yesterday, let alone a few weeks ago. With that in mind, here's a look...
Big Star | Live on WLIR
For some weird reason, things almost always seemed to work out for me when it came to Alex Chilton. I was at the Knitting Factory in 1997 when he...
