Power-pop legends Cheap Trick (pictured) are celebrating their 35th year together with the release of the cleverly titled The Latest, currently available exclusively through the band’s website. (It hits retail in mid-July.) The quartet starts a 40-city tour with Def Leppard June 23 in Camden, N.J. … Also celebrating an anniversary (25 years) are self-proclaimed Scumdogs [...]
Bob Mould is a man always on the lookout for a new challenge. After Hüsker Dü (one of the most celebrated rock bands ever) folded in 1988, Mould would helm another powerful trio, Sugar, before beginning a fascinating, ongoing series of solo releases that have ranged from introspective to danceable, from melodic to nearly chaotic. [...]
Is “Boy Boy” the best gay-or-straight song since Josie Cotton’s “Johnny, Are You Queer?” Probably. Lissy Trullie looks like a Warhol Factory girl and sings like Siouxsie Sioux, but she’s still pining for a guy who might play for the other team. Trullie’s debut EP, Self-Taught Learner (American Myth), is out now.
Bob Mould is a man always on the lookout for a new challenge. After Hüsker Dü (one of the most celebrated rock bands ever) folded in 1988, Mould would helm another powerful trio, Sugar, before beginning a fascinating, ongoing series of solo releases that have ranged from introspective to danceable, from melodic to nearly chaotic. [...]
It’s weird that Carbon Leaf cites influences such as Phish, R.E.M., Dave Matthews Band, Neil Young and the Pogues, because the group only vaguely resembles any of them. The band began mainly as a Celtic/bluegrass outfit, which would utterly confuse those who listened to its eighth album, the somber alt- and folk-rock Nothing Rhymes With [...]
Every Saturday, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places and events from his band’s 25-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith. Music: a physical, emotional and intellectual infrastructure that, regardless of intention, passes closest to experiencing essence. Closer than other art-i-tectures (art “manner, [...]
Bob Mould is a man always on the lookout for a new challenge. After Hüsker Dü (one of the most celebrated rock bands ever) folded in 1988, Mould would helm another powerful trio, Sugar, before beginning a fascinating, ongoing series of solo releases that have ranged from introspective to danceable, from melodic to nearly chaotic. [...]
You could tell who the members of L.A.’s Miss Derringer were as soon as they walked into the crowded Khyber: the boys (guitarists Ben Shields and Morgan Slade, bassist Sylvain de Muizon and drummer Cody James) decked out in their rockabilly-styled outfits and singer Liz McGrath in her bright red uniform and feathers in her [...]
The Anticon label is best known for its avant-garde and unconventional rap releases, but Why? has hinted at taking its hip hop into more rock-solid territory. Yoni Wolf and Co. recently announced the follow-up to 2008 breakthrough Alopecia, to be released sometime this fall. Check out the video for Alopecia‘s “A Sky For Shoeing Horses [...]
Bob Mould is a man always on the lookout for a new challenge. After Hüsker Dü (one of the most celebrated rock bands ever) folded in 1988, Mould would helm another powerful trio, Sugar, before beginning a fascinating, ongoing series of solo releases that have ranged from introspective to danceable, from melodic to nearly chaotic. [...]
