Elephant Stone, led by Rishi Dihr, a renowned sitar player, released their self-titled, sophomore effort through Hidden Pony Records last year, and the material on the album used elements of traditional Eastern instrumentation with Western songwriting and instrumentation […]
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As it often is with any band origin story, a band can trace their origins to maybe one or two moments that can seem in retrospect to be both coincidental and destined to happen. In […]
Although they’ve had a constantly shifting lineup, the one constant in Reigning Sound since it’s formation in 2001 has been Greg Cartwright, the band’s founder and primary creative force. On Shattered, Cartwright teams up with longtime […]
http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/track=2799135397/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/ Jesus Sons got their start when the creative backbone of the band, Brandon Wurtz and Shannon Dean formed the band in a motorcycle garage in San Francisco back in 2001. The duo of Wurtz […]
A Q&A with Raccoon Fighter’s Sean Gavigan and Gabe Wilhelm
Originally, each member of indie rock trio Raccoon Fighter hailed from the same small, South Jersey town; however, only two of the members Sean Gavigan (vocalist, guitar) and Zac Ciancaglini (drums) met while as students and […]
A Q&A with Roi and the Secret People’s Mike Roi
The other day I caught my friend Denise Barbarita do a solo, acoustic set at the Parkside Lounge. She had invited a few people to celebrate her birthday that night, and one of those friends […]
A Q&A with the Lonely H’s Mark Fredson
The Nashville, TN-based (by way of Washington State) quintet the Lonely H have been together for well over a decade, starting out when all of the members were high school teens. Back in June, the band released their […]
Jeffery Drag Records released Bad Cop’s latest EP, The Light On earlier back on July 23rd. Produced by Cage the Elephant’s Brad Schultz, the album has 5 songs which sound frantic and impatient. On the vinyl version […]
Nashville, TN-based quintet the Lonely H recently released their self-titled fourth album, and the material on the album has the band paying homage to some of the rock sound of the late 60s and 70s […]
New York-based singer/songwriter Kendra Morris will be releasing her sophomore effort Mockingbird through Wax Poetics Records on July 30th. The album has Morris and her backing band led by producer and guitarist Jeremy Page covering classic songs […]
Released last year through Wax Poetics Records, New York-based singer/songwriter Kendra Morris’ debut effort, Banshee was critically well-received with Morris being compared favorably to the links of Adele, Joss Stone, Amy Winehouse and interestingly enough, the legendary […]
When the Spectrals began in 2009, they were essentially the solo project of the Heckmondwike Yorkshire, UK-based Louis Jones, who played every instrument on the band’s earliest records released through labels such as Captured Tracks, Tough Love, […]
The Vancouver, BC-based Lions in the Street specialize in a straightforward, balls-to the-wall kind of rock ‘n roll akin to that of the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – and they’ve been compared in some circles […]
a Q&A with Morgan Christopher Geer, a.k.a Drunken Prayer
Singer/songwriter Morgan Christopher Geer has one of the more unique stories I’ve recently heard. Originally, from the San Francisco area, Geer is the son of a California mushroom farmer and a New Orleans folk singer. […]
I’m in a time-machine mode here, and it sometimes happens when we think of a New Year; I guess I can’t help but see a greater connection with the past as I get a bit […]