Street Songs & Steel Guitars: An Interview with Cary Baker on Down on the Corner
Cary Baker was just a suburban Chicago kid with ears wide open when his dad took him to Maxwell Street one day in 1970. There, on a cracked...
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Sacred Blade’s Progressive, Sci-Fi Metal Lives Again with ‘Of the Sun + Moon’
Sacred Blade are back from the depths of metal history with the Supreme Echo reissue of Of 'The Sun + Moon,' an album that’s long been recognized as...
Anton Barbeau’s Double Drop: Track Premiere of ‘Glitch Wizard’ and a Deep Dive into His Double Release
Anton Barbeau’s 'Glitch Wizard' is the sound of a soul wrestling with grief, memory, and a fixation on things that flicker between the cracks of reality. The title...
John Reid Talks Strife: 70s Heavy Rock and the Chaos Behind It
Strife? Proper rock ‘n’ roll. Started in ’69, all about the music, no bullshit. Gordon Rowley nearly gets fried onstage by an electric shock and they just keep...
Surf, Storms & the Making of ‘King’: Tanya Donelly of Belly Looks Back on Its 30th Anniversary
It’s been 30 years since Belly released 'King' and somehow it still feels just as wild, weird, and wonderful as ever. Coming off the surprise success of 'Star,'...
Catchy and Weird: A Conversation with Gelli Haha
As a freelance writer who sometimes covers music, I receive a ton of publicity emails from labels and press outfits promoting various releases. I always read the texts...
Inside the Dreamworld of Tomo Katsurada: An Interview on Sound, Space, and Starting Fresh
Tomo Katsurada’s new EP 'Dream of the Egg' feels like cracking open a quiet little universe. Soft, warm, and totally his own. After years of channeling swirling psych...
The James Brandon Lewis Interview | “I think instruments reflect the hearts and minds of the individuals playing them”
When James Brandon Lewis lifts the horn, something ancient stirs—history, memory, spirit—but what pours out is unmistakably now. Raised on truth and trained in curiosity, he’s not here...
From The Elastick Band to Max: Revisiting ‘Rodan’ and Its 50th Anniversary
We’re taking a trip down memory lane with David Cortopassi, starting with the wild ride of The Elastick Band and their mind-blowing track ‘Spazz,’ all the way to...
The Lost Psychedelic Soul of Jeannie Piersol: High Moon Unearths ‘The Nest’
High Moon’s latest release, 'The Nest,' is a long-overdue excavation of one of San Francisco’s most elusive voices, Jeannie Piersol. A singer who drifted through the city’s psychedelic...