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LISTEN: Joe Cardamone’s Quarentina Is The Post-Pandemic Epic We Have Been Waiting For

September 26, 2021September 26, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments Candiria, Cave In, Dillinger Escape Plan, Isis, Joe Cardamone, Los Angeles, post-hardcore, Quarentina, The Icarus Line

The former Icarus Line frontman talks openly and candidly about his audio/visual masterpiece created amidst lockdown and a breakup

Folk Glam Rock

Your Cloak Full Of Eagles: Electric Warrior Turns 50

September 25, 2021September 25, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1971, 50th anniversary, Bang A Gong (Get It On), Bill Legend, Electric Warrior, Jeepster, Marc Bolan, Mickey Finn, New York Dolls, Rocky Horror, Steve Currie, T.Rex, the Bay City Rollers, The Jam, Ziggy Stardust

How Marc Bolan plugged in T.Rex and invented glam rock

Alternative Rock Hard Rock Heavy Metal Noise Psychedelics Rock

Looking California, Feeling Minnesota: Celebrating 30 Years of Badmotorfinger

September 24, 2021September 24, 2021 Rachel Linhart 4 Comments

Why the third Soundgarden album is still their best

New Wave Post-Punk Remembrance

Delta 5 Singer Julz Sale Dies In Thailand

September 23, 2021September 23, 2021 Deborah Sprague 0 Comments Apple+, Delta 5, England, Gang of Four, iPhone, Julz Sale, Kill Rock Stars, Leeds, Mind Your Own Business, Post-Punk, RIP, The Mekons

Alongside the Mekons and Gang of Four, she was a key figure in the famed Leeds post-punk movement

Alternative Rock Hard Rock Indie Rock Noise Pop Post-Hardcore Post-Punk Power Pop Punk Rock

Oh Well, Whatever: ‘Nevermind’ at 30

September 23, 2021September 23, 2021 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments 1991, Breed, Dave Grohl, DGC, Garth Brooks, Geffen, In Bloom, Krist Noveselic, Kurt Cobain, Mariah Carey, MC Hammer, Nevermind, Nirvana, On a Plain, Polly, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Territorial Pissings

The breakout success of the second Nirvana album was both a gift and a curse for Kurt Cobain

Art Pop Electronic Experimental Post-Punk

ALBUMS: Immersion Surrenders to Beauty, and Achieves Transcendence

September 22, 2021September 23, 2021 Tim Sommer 0 Comments 2021, Colin Newman, Dennis Wilson, Immersion, Krautrock, Laetitia Sadier, Malka Spigel, Nanocluster, Nanocluster Vol. 1, Pet Sounds, Robin Rimbaud, Ronald Lippok and Bernd Jestram, Scanner, Stereolab, Swim, Tarwater, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The White Album, Ulrich Schnauss, Wire

With the help of such collaborators as Laetitia Sadier, Ulrich Schnauss, Tarwater and Scanner, Nanolcuster Vol. 1 is so beautiful, exotic, immediate and compelling as to defy description

Rock

David Duchovny’s Grand Gesture

September 22, 2021September 23, 2021 Katherine Yeske Taylor 0 Comments 2021, Californication, Colin Lee, David Duchovny, Davis Rowan, Gestureland, Keenan O’Meara, Mitchell Stewart, Pat McCusker, The X Files, Westbound Kyd

On his third album Gestureland, the acclaimed television and film actor finally embraces his inner rock star

Punk

ALBUMS: Comfortably Punk

September 21, 2021September 22, 2021 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 2021, Amy Taylor, Amyl & The Sniffers, ATO Records, Australia, Comfort To Me, Cosmic Psychos, feedtime!, Punk

A bigger, bolder second album proves that growth suits Amyl & The Sniffers pretty damn well

Pop Progressive Rock Rock

Like It Or Not: Abacab Turns 40

September 20, 2021September 20, 2021 Lee Zimmerman 1 Comment 1981, 40th Anniversary, Abacab, Atlantic, Earth Wind and Fire, Genesis, Hugh Padgham, Mike Rutherford, No Reply, Phil Collins, Tony Banks

From Prog to Pop, this 11th Genesis LP marked another new bold beginning for the legendary trio

Alternative Rock Country and/or Western Electronic Indie Rock Rock

Playing Kiss Covers Beautiful and Stoned: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot at 20

September 18, 2021September 18, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2001, Glenn Kotche, I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, Jay Bennett, Jeff Tweedy, Jim O'Rourke, John Stirratt, Nonesuch Records, Reprise Records, Stop Smiling, Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

I’ve got reservations about so many things, but not about my appreciation for Wilco’s complicated 2001 milestone

Punk Remembrance

Long Live The King: Remembering Dee Dee

September 18, 2021September 19, 2021 Jim Sullivan 2 Comments ” Ramones, CBGB, Dee Dee King, Dee Dee Ramone, Joey Ramone, Johnny Ramone, Max's Kansas City, Mickey Leigh, the Mudd Club, The Ramones, Vera Ramone King

Honoring the 70th birthday of the legendary bassist for the Ramones with his beloved first wife Vera

Punk Rock Rockabilly

Greg Antista and The Lonely Streets: The Neon Heat Is On

September 17, 2021September 23, 2021 j. poet 0 Comments Bad Religion, Big Sandy, Brian Setzer, Buzztop Hurricanes, Greg Antista, Greg Antista and The Lonely Streets, James Intveld, Jessica Kaczmarek, Jorge E. Disguster, Mink Daggers, Russell Scott, Shake Stomp and Stumble, The Adolescents, The Damned, The Hangmen, Under the Neon Heat, Warren Renfrow

The former Joyride guitarist’s handpicked crew of West Coast punk veterans emerge from the pandemic with a wide-ranging second album

Country and/or Western Pop

ALBUMS: Star-Crossed at the Edge of Heartbreak

September 17, 2021September 17, 2021 Kara Tucker 0 Comments Butterfly, Cherry Blossom, Interscope Records, Kacey Musgraves, Nashville UMG, Ruston Kelly, Simple Times, Star-Crossed, The Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves keeps it universal on post-Golden Hour divorce release

Rock

Styx: Crashing Through The Pandemic

September 16, 2021September 22, 2021 Katherine Yeske Taylor 2 Comments

Longtime bassist Ricky Phillips talks about the new album Crash of the Crown and its place in the band’s legacy

Latin New Wave

ALBUMS: Elvis Costello en Español

September 16, 2021September 16, 2021 Stephanie Hernandez 0 Comments Cami, Elvis Costello, Elvis Costello and The Attractions, Juanes, La Marisoul Hernandez, Natalie Bergman, Nina Diaz, Sebastian Krys, Spanish Model, This Year's Model, UMe

English has been the lingua franca of pop music, but Spanish Model shows that it doesn’t have to be

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