Nine Inch Nails

  • Samantha Fish: “I just fucking love going back out on the road.” (11/7 at UT)

    Blues-rock guitar heroine Samantha Fish’s latest album was met with a little resistance from longtime fans but, during a recent phone chat, she tells me that that’s something she’s okay with: “Everyone initially freaks out because it’s different.  They’re like, ‘Tech N9ne? Synthesizers? No!’… but my favorite reactions are...
  • Mara Connor Talks COVID and Covers

    Last week Southern California singer/songwriter Mara Connor released the Decades EP, a celebration of some of the greatest songs of the second half of the twentieth century and also some of Connor’s best musical friends, with whom she collaborated on the five-song EP.  Connor covers songs by Fats Domino,...
  • Buckcherry, Still Keepin’ It R-Rated, After All These Years (7/27 at the TLA)

    2019 marks the twentieth anniversary of the self-titled debut of arguably the last truly great “Rock’N’Roll” band, Buckcherry.  20 years ago the Sunset Strip rockers rose to fame with “Lit Up,” possibly the ‘90s most anthemic ode to blow.  They were equal parts glamorous sleaze and bluesy swagger, halfway...
  • “The songwriting remains the same”: Catching up with Madi Diaz

    About three and half years ago I was falling in love hard with the music of Madi Diaz, a singer/songwriter — who grew up in Bucks County and went on to be a star pupil of Paul Green’s School of Rock – who had recently shifted her aesthetic from...