Tom Waits

There are still tickets remaining for My Morning Jacket’s shows this Friday (10/27) and Saturday (10/28) at The Met, the band’s most intimate area appearances since they played the Tower Theatre in 2015.  And while it is a rare opportunity to see the psychedelic Southern rockers indoors (in an...

Word on the street (It’s actually from a quite reliable source.) is that tickets are running low for Rare Americans’ upcoming show this coming Sunday, October 9th, at The Foundry…  And, considering that their first-ever North American tour completely sold-out earlier this year, I might suggest getting them ASAP… ...

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...

“Maybe it’s because of my age, but I don’t really understand music these days… I think we’re mature alternative, but alternative has grown kind of outside of what I recognize the genre to be,” says James Mason, vocalist for LA outfit Paper Jackets.  Since last October the band has...

“I think I’ve learned a lot and grown a lot.  I’ve never gotten so personal, and maybe blunt.  I’ve never allowed things to feel this raw and vulnerable,” says Nashville-based singer/songwriter Madi Diaz of her forthcoming album, History of a Feeling, out August 27th on ANTI-.  The LP, which...

A girl has a strange experience writing a song inspired by Newton’s 1st law on Jackson Browne’s guitar in Kid Rock’s old house…  While that sounds like the plot to a modern psychedelic exploitation film that would play as part of a midnight double-feature with Beyond the Valley of...