Len Mizzoni Waves Of Indigo Independent Len Mizzoni is no stranger to the music business. A one-time member of Frozen Ghost, Mizzoni has been solo for the last few years. This resulted in 2016’s EP, Special Love. His latest release, Waves of [...]
Neal Morse Life & Times Radiant Records Neal Morse is one busy guy. It is time for his 19th solo studio album, and a further two studio albums as The Neal Morse Band. He released two albums in 2016, one solo and one with The Neal Morse Band. [...]
CHARITY AND CHARM A CONVERSATION WITH THE CORRIDORS The Corridors is the brainchild of Adi Mosko. He formed the band in the early 2000s in his native Israel, and since forming the band he has been extremely busy writing, recording and playing. [...]
SUSAN SHUMSKY – MAHARISHI & ME: SEEKING ENLIGHTENMENT WITH THE BEATLES’ GURU SKYHORSE PUBLISHING With the success of the recent reissue of The Beatles (The White Album), this book will be of interest to Beatle fans who are interested [...]
GOOD LOVELIES PRESENT SHAPESHIFTERS A CONVERSATION WITH CAROLINE BROOKS OF GOOD LOVELIES ‘The title, Shapeshifters, comes from the song “I See Gold.” When we were looking for a title, and it took a little longer than expected, this one seemed to [...]
HARD WORK AND HAUNTING MEMORIES AN INTERVIEW WITH JOE BONSALL OF THE OAK RIDGE BOYS It may be hard to believe, but The Oak Ridge Boys, as a band, has been around since the 1940s. Of course, there were different members then and they even had a [...]
Toto Greatest Hits: 40 Trips Around The Sun Legacy Recordings Toto was the Steely Dan of pop music. Top-notch session musicians who went the route of pop music when they formed a band. Very L.A. and very commercial and always very good. To [...]
Son Lux Brighter Wounds City Slang Brighter Wounds is the breakthrough album for Son Lux. Son Lux has been teetering towards the next level for a couple of years. Soundtracks, concerts, guest appearances, and now the long-awaited album Brighter [...]
Good Lovelies Shapeshifters Independent Kerri Ough, Caroline Brooks and Sue Passmore are the Good Lovelies. The group has been around since 2006 and issued their first EP in 2007 (Oh My!). Their first album was released in 2009 (Good Lovelies), [...]
Dashboard Confessional Crooked Shadows Dine Alone Records I have to be honest, I was a little surprised when I listened to the first Dashboard Confessional album in nine years (their last studio album was 2009’s Alter the Ending). I was [...]
LOOK AROUND AND BACK A CONVERSATION WITH THE PREFAB MESSIAHS VOCALIST XEROX FEINBERG This is one of those rock ’n’ roll stories that you just could not make up. The Prefab Messiahs is a band with a unique history, beginning in Worcester, [...]
SINCERITY AND SIMPLICITY A CONVERSATION WITH NEAL MORSE Neal Morse, as an artist, is a different person to different people. To the prog rock fans, he is a member of Spock’s Beard and Transatlantic. Both bands released successful and influential [...]
BEGINNINGS AND CYCLES A CONVERSATION WITH THE ROYCE TWINS The Royce Twins is the name of the band, and they are, in fact, twins. Named Michael and Gabriel Saalfield but known as The Royce Twins (their mother’s middle name), they have been making [...]
IAMX Alive In New Light Caroline/Universal Music IAMX is really Chris Corner, formerly of Sneaker Pimps. He has been recording and performing under the name IAMX since 2004 and Alive In New Light is IAMX’s eighth studio album. This is also being [...]
A CONNECTING DEBUT A CONVERSATION WITH OMHOUSE For many years, Omhouse was Steven Foster. Foster is well-known as a brilliant session musician who would also tour with bands. He has worked with Moon King, Snowblink, and Doldrums. He proved [...]
MUSIC FROM BIG EGO AN INTERVIEW WITH CHRIS SCHLARB ‘How people find out about music, that has always fascinated me. People read an interview, whatever. And they discover a song or artist. I never made music with the intention of selling a [...]
The Prefab Messiahs Psychsploitation . . . Today! Lolipop Records/Burger Records It was once said that Electric Light Orchestra picked up where The Beatles stopped at “Strawberry Fields Forever.” If that is true, then The Prefab Messiahs pick [...]
Ampline Passion Relapse SofaBurn Records Pure energy from the first second to the last, Passion Relapse begins with the short-but-powerful “Shrunken Heads” and does not let up to the last few seconds of the last track, “Stab.” This is energetic [...]
Project Pitchfork Akkretion Trisol Music Group Project Pitchfork is an electronic band based out of Hamburg, Germany. Akkretion is their 17th studio album, and their first since 2016’s Look Up, I’m Down There. This is yet another album delving [...]
Omhouse Eye To Eye Independent Omhouse’s Eye to Eye has been a long time in the making, and the wait was well worth it. Omhouse is a Toronto-based band and until recently was one person, Steven Foster. For Eye to Eye, Omhouse’s debut album, he [...]
Tune-Yards I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life 4AD The Tune-Yards (stylized as tUnE–yArDs) is a duo who has been recording since 2009. The band is really the brainchild of Merrill Garbus, who started the band in 2006. In 2009, [...]
Belle And Sebastian How To Solve Our Human Problems – Part 2 Matador Records One of the things I love about Belle and Sebastian is that one never knows what the band is going to do next, both musically and in terms of releases. On December [...]
Soho Rezanejad Six Archetypes Silicone Records I like organized noise. I really like albums by artists who are not afraid to be a bit noisy and seemingly chaotic. Six Archetypes falls into this category, but let’s be very clear: This music is [...]
Denny Doherty Of All Things – The Complete ABC/Dunhill Masters Real Gone Music Denny Doherty got his start in 1956 in his hometown of Halifax, Nova Scotia before he became one quarter of The Mamas & The Papas in 1965. The Mamas & [...]
