REMINISCING A CONVERSATION WITH GLENN SHORROCK (FORMERLY OF LITTLE RIVER BAND) Glenn Shorrock has been making music for a long time. He started his professional life with classic band The Twilights, a band now considered to be one of the most [...]
Henry Bateman Hide & Seek Independent Henry Bateman is a 22 year old talent, based in Leeds, England. Hide & Seek is his third album, and he continues to progress while paying attention to traditions in the folk genre. Although he is [...]
Buck Gooter Finer Thorns Ramp Local Buck Gooter is Billy Brett (vocals, synthesizer, percussion) and Terry Turtle (guitars). Finer Thorns is the duo’s eighteenth album in 14 years. It is amazing not only that the band has made so many albums, [...]
Datarock A Fool At Forty Is A Fool Indeed YAP Records Active since 2000, the Norway-based Datarock has had a high rotation in its lineup, but the founder and mainstay, Fredrik Saroea, has held the project together, releasing some pretty [...]
THE PAIN YOU DON’T SEE COMING A CONVERSATION WITH BILLY BRETT OF BUCK GOOTER + A SPILL EXCLUSIVE ALBUM PREMIERE There are a lot of great stories about how bands got their names. “The Beatles” was a tribute to Buddy Holly and The Crickets [...]
Noctorum The Afterlife Schoolkids Records Noctorum has been missed since 2011’s Honey Mink Forever, and The Afterlife is a welcome return for the psychedelic pop/rock band; amidst all the strange developments in current events, the world needs [...]
NIIGHTS Hellebores Sun Pedal Recordings Straight out of Cleveland comes NIIGHTS with their second album (Whisper being their 2015 debut). And since Whisper, NIIGHTS have come a long way. The core of the four piece are Jenna Fournier (vocals) and [...]
ShapeShiftingAliens ShapeShiftingAliens The Sublunar Society ShapeShiftingAliens is a Swedish duo, consisting of J.P Cléve on vocals and Niklas Rundquist providing the music. Although this is their debut album, they have worked together in the [...]
WHAT DO YOU CALL THAT NOISE? – AN XTC DISCOVERY BOOK A CONVERSATION WITH AUTHOR MARK FISHER XTC started in 1972, released their debut album in 1978, and is perhaps the most famous band out of Swindon. A new book is about to be released, [...]
LCD Soundsystem Electric Lady Sessions Sony Music In 2017, LCD Soundsystem released its brilliant American Dream, and not only was it the band’s first album to chart in the top ten, it actually debuted at number one and won a Grammy for Best [...]
Standalone Standalone Negative Gain Records Standalone is Steven Siebold (Hate Dept, Pigface), and the name is pretty self-explanatory. This is a solo project in every sense of the word, as Siebold is the only one on the album. Standalone is an [...]
FOR ONE NIGHT IN MILAN METAL HEALTH DROVE ‘EM MAD A CONVERSATION WITH QUIET RIOT DRUMMER FRANKIE BANALI Quiet Riot has been around for a lot longer than some might think. Forming in 1975 (featuring a young Randy Rhodes), they took their [...]
Beirut Gallipoli 4AD Basically Beirut is Zach Condon, who keeps himself busy between albums with numerous EPs and side projects (Realpeople, 1971, and Soft Landing). Featured on this album, alongside Condon (who provides the vocals and plays [...]
Len Mizzoni Better Days Independent Better Days is Len Mizzoni’s second full-length solo album. The first thing that strikes the listener is the confidence he exudes both in the songwriting and the performance. On Better Days, he adds more [...]
Quiet Riot One Night In Milan Frontiers Music It may be hard to believe, but One Night in Milan, recorded in 2018, captures Quiet Riot at the first concert they have ever played in Italy. Even more astonishingly for a band that has been around [...]
Tony Malone Flowers For Armageddon Independent Tony Malone was part of the original Queen Street punk scene in the late 1970s. At that time he was a member of The Dishes, after which he formed Drastic Measures. Malone wrote some of the finest [...]
GUNNING FOR HITS A CONVERSATION WITH PRODUCER & AUTHOR JEFF ROUGVIE Gunning for Hits is a new kind of reading experience: a comic book about rock ‘n’ roll with a somewhat flawed hero who, in some ways, resembles artists you may [...]
FOREVER THE INDIVIDUALIST A CONVERSATION WITH ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME NOMINEE TODD RUNDGREN Todd Rundgren is really one of rock’s elites. He has transformed music through his writing, performing and production. He started in 1967 with the [...]
The Bad Dreamers Songs About People Including Myself FiXT Neon David Schuler (producer of P!nk, John Legend and The Backstreet Boys, to name just three) is The Bad Dreamers, that is to say, this is his project. He wrote, mixed and produced the [...]
SINE INSOMNIÆ Independent SINE is a band, founded by drummer and vocalist Rona Rougeheart. In the press release for the debut album, INSOMNIÆ, she is quoted as saying she “wanted our debut album to be dark, sexy & stylish, with [...]
INTO THE VOID A CONVERSATION WITH PATRICK BLÜMEL OF HOLYGRAM Holygram is a new band, based in Cologne, Germany. They formed in 2015, but have only recently released their debut album, Modern Cults. The band consists of Patrick Blümel (vocals), [...]
David McFarlane Fieldwork Independent David McFarlane is an artist based in Toronto. Fieldwork is his second album and since his debut, The Wreck That You Are (2010), he has learned a great deal about himself and music. And it is all reflected [...]
IKA JOHANNESSON & JON JEFFERSON KLINGBERG – BLOOD FIRE DEATH: THE SWEDISH METAL STORY FERAL HOUSE PUBLISHERS BOOK REVIEW BY AARON BADGLEY Originally written in Swedish in 2011, this update and translated version is one hell of a book [...]
Hocico Shalom From Hell Aviv – Blasphemies In The Holy Land Part 2 Out Of Line Music In 2005, Hocico released a live album, Blasphemies In The Holy Land (Live in Israel), 13 years later they have released the sequel, and it is just as [...]
