EXCLUSIVE: OLD CHARADES ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM, STREAMS NEW TRACK
Scranton and Philadelphia band Old Charades today announces a new album, "Iron-Jawed Angels," and debuts the title track here as well. The band says the album will most likely be released in late fall...
ReadmoreEXCLUSIVE: J. ALAN SCHNEIDER VISITS ‘BORDER TOWN’ AND EXPLORES COLLABORATIVE RECORDING PROCESS
For his new album, "All Lit Up," J. Alan Schneider decided to bring some friends into the recording process, a departure from his 2016 debut EP, "Lo & Behold." "I've played in bands and record...
ReadmoreJAY BLAKESBERG’S VISIONS OF JERRY GARCIA
Rock photographer Jay Blakesberg, whose new book "Jerry Garcia: Secret Space of Dreams" focuses on the legendary Grateful Dead singer and guitarist, always had a goal when he was shooting the late mus...
ReadmoreBLUES TRAVELER LOOKS BACK ON ‘FOUR’
By the time Blues Traveler released "Four" in late 1994, the band was primed for a breakthrough. Formed in Princeton, the group had honed its chops in dinky New York City clubs, built a fan base via w...
ReadmoreNELS CLINE and YUKA C. HONDA EMBRACE THE RANDOMNESS OF CUP
CUP -- the musical partnership between husband and wife Nels Cline and Yuka C. Honda -- is an exercise in opposites. Cline, the experimental guitarist known for his longstanding membership in Wilco, "...
ReadmoreLITTLE FEAT’S BILL PAYNE ON LOWELL GEORGE’S LEGACY, ‘WAITING FOR COLUMBUS’ and ROBERT HUNTER
When Little Feat got together 50 years ago, the goals set by keyboardist Bill Payne and singer-guitarist Lowell George were twofold, Payne says. "One was keeping it elastic so if we needed to inclu...
ReadmoreIMMEDIATE FAMILY RIFFS ON PLAYING WITH JAMES TAYLOR, KEITH RICHARDS and WARREN ZEVON
If you're a casual music fan, you probably never heard of Danny Kortchmar, Waddy Wachtel, Leland Sklar and Russ Kunkel. But if you've listened to the radio in the past 40 years, you've certainly heard...
ReadmoreMORE FANS FLOCKING TO GOOSE AS BAND PLOTS JAZZ CAFE, MERCURY LOUNGE VISITS
The Goose is flying south for the fall. The four-piece improvisational rock band from Norwalk, Conn., will make its way to the River Street Jazz Cafe in Wilkes-Barre on Friday -- just a few miles from...
ReadmoreBOMBINO BRINGS AWARENESS TO HIS ‘ENDANGERED’ CULTURE THROUGH MUSIC
Bombino -- born Goumour Almoctar -- is one of the most beloved world music artists on the planet. Noisey has called him "the world's greatest guitarist," the New York Times dubbed him "the Sultan of S...
ReadmoreBEWARE OF DARKNESS FINDS THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL
For Kyle Nicolaides, Beware of Darkness' new single, "Bloodlines," represents both the low point and high point of his musical career. "Songwriting and recording is such a mystical process, and it ...
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