THE BLACK CROWES A POUND OF FEATHERS SILVER ARROW RECORDS Since reforming in 2019, The Black Crowes have remained in constant motion through numerous tours, a recent string of remastered boxsets (including last year’s reissue of Amorica and Live [...]
RUSH GRACE UNDER PRESSURE (SUPER DELUXE EDITION) UMe/MERCURY/ANTHEM When Grace Under Pressure first landed in 1984, it captured Rush at a moment of profound transition. The band was navigating new technology, shifting cultural anxieties, and the [...]
GOLD LEADER GOLD LEADER COLOR RED Hailing from Denver, Gold Leader has dropped their impressive debut, eponymous record. Gold Leader is a collection of instrumental songs that teeters between funk and jazz, giving the band a modern and freshly [...]
DRIVING MRS. SATAN LATE EVER AFTER LIBURIA RECORDS If you think that covering the songs of others is easy by just picking up your instruments and microphones, than you are quite mistaken. Sure you can do that, but then you are just a cover [...]
BRIGITTE CALLS ME BABY IRREVERSIBLE ATO RECORDS Navigating a second album is tricky business, especially when your first release and follow-up tour were received with such acclaim that you’re being tipped as the next big indie band. Such is the [...]
SPENCER HOFFMAN CHERRY PICKER ANXIETY BLANKET RECORDS Being a singer-songwriter from Los Angeles will always draw comparisons with the early to mid-70s, when the so-called golden age of California Sound ruled, well, the airwaves then. In the [...]
CAT CLYDE MUD BLOOD BONE CONCORD RECORDS Really good singer-songwriters these days take much harder routes to creating music of substance. Of course it is the much harder road than just strumming your guitar, tinkling your piano and singing [...]
KIM GORDON PLAY ME MATADOR RECORDS It’s difficult to know what to expect from a Kim Gordon solo record, given her avant-garde aloofness over her years in music, but I had no idea just how strange it would be to spend my next 40 or so minutes in [...]
