DIY Discovery | Jas Frank & the Intoits
Most of the music I hear is sent to me by labels and publicists. But there’s nothing like getting it straight from the source. Welcome to the latest instalment...
Next Week in Music | May 27-June 2 • 150 New Releases Headed Your...
It's an interesting week for new music: While there are more than 150 albums, EPs and singles on the docket, big-name artists are pretty much AWOL (except for a...
Next Week in Music | May 27-June 2, 2019 • New Books
When I'm not listening to music — and sometimes when I am — there's a good chance I'm reading about music. You too? You've come to the right place....
Next Week in Music | May 27-June 2, 2019 • TV & Movies
Thanks to the long weekend down south, nearly all the late-night talk shows are off this week. So televised music performances will be few and far between. Here are...
Blue Butter Pot | Let Them Talk
WHO ARE THEY? A hirsute, hard-hitting southern-fried blues-rock duo from the north — of France, believe it or not.
WHAT IS THIS? Their sophomore set of needlepoint guitar licks, grinding...
Bat! | Bat Music For Bat People
WHO ARE THEY? A high-concept "crime -fighting supergroup" from L.A. whose masked, black-clad, fedora-topped members go by colourful handles like Red Bat, Blue Bat and Green Bat, although they're...
Beast Coast | Escape From New York
WHO ARE THEY? Not to be confused with California rock duo Best Coast, New York's Beast Coast are a 10-member hip-hop supergroup collective featuring members of Flatbush Zombies, Underachievers...
Sebadoh | Act Surprised
WHO ARE THEY? The on-again, off-again indie-rock power trio fronted and co-founded by Dinosaur Jr. bassist and eternal malcontent Lou Barlow, currently aided and abetted by Jason Loewenstein (who,...
Justin Townes Earle | The Saint of Lost Causes
WHO IS HE? The journeyman singer-songwriter who's doing a fine job of following in the large footsteps of his legendary father Steve Earle — while also managing to forge...
Black Mountain | Destroyer
WHO ARE THEY? Vancouver's veteran psychedelic / progressive / space / stoner / boogie / indie-rock warriors featuring singer-guitarist Stephen McBean (who actually lives in Los Angeles now) and...
Amyl & The Sniffers | Amyl & The Sniffers
WHO ARE THEY? A gang of Australian guttersnipes — fronted by firebrand vocalist Amy Taylor — who unabashedly worship at the altar of Iggy Pop, The Damned and anything...
The Waterboys | Where the Action Is
WHO ARE THEY? Veteran Scottish singer-songwriter Mike Scott and his latest supporting cast — which has proved to be surprisingly long-lived after decades of revolving-door personnel changes.
WHAT IS THIS?...
Stray Cats | 40
WHO ARE THEY? The tall-quiffed, ink-stained neo-rockabilly rebels fronted by singer-guitarist Brian Setzer, flanked by bassist Lee Rocker and standup drummer (not to mention onetime husband of Britt Ekland)...
Mavis Staples | We Get By
WHO IS SHE? The Grammy-winning gospel-blues icon, civil rights activist and all-around living legend who's about to celebrate her 80th birthday — and her 70th year in music.
WHAT IS...
Morrissey | California Son
WHO IS HE? Steven Patrick Morrissey — the sardonic former frontman of mope-rock immortals The Smiths, one of post-punk's great romantic crooners and lyricists, and a relentless curmudgeon who's...
