Alex Radus — ‘Where Liberty Lives’
Alex Radus is a singer-songwriter from Pennsylvania. Hailed as a “Skilled Fretman” and “Versatile Crooner,” but self-described as a “Purveyor of genre whiplash,” Radus’s art is both musically...
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Studio D’Lux: Doug Kistner and Chicago Alumni Join Other Rock Icons
Doug Kistner is bringing together a massive lineup of classic rock veterans for his latest project, Studio D’Lux. The group recently released 'The Allstar Project,' an eight-track album...
Gary Marks: Staying Inside the Song on ‘I Guess It Never Stops’ and New LP ‘Crossroads’
After five decades of writing in the shadows of an industry he walked away from, Gary Marks returns with 'Crossroads,' a chronological reckoning arriving April 18. This Record...
Bryan Titus: Hiking the Notes of the Appalachian Trail
Music offers this incredible opportunity for a group of people to sync their heartbeats. In my three decades here on earth, I don’t think I’ve found another vessel...
A Journey Through Lucas Neil’s ‘Birds’
Lucas Neil’s newest album opens with the line “I wish we were seaward birds.” In an era of intense depersonalization and dehumanization, Neil has tapped into that intense...
The Invisible City Resurfaces: Seelie Court’s Relaunch Unearths Heaven’s Lost 1969 Baroque Psych Masterpiece
The release of Heaven's 'The Invisible City of Kartesh' unlocks a genuine historical vault from the late 60s British underground. This long-lost album finally brings to light the...
Ugly Stick: An Interview on the Return of 1993’s ‘Absinthe’ and the Midwestern Underground
In the late eighties, the town of Delaware, Ohio, was a collision of family farms, blue-collar industry, and liberal arts academia. It was the perfect incubator for the...
AVA Trio Interview: Mapping the Lunar Cycles of ‘Lunae’
AVA Trio bypasses the standard recording studio for their fifth album, Lunae. They drag their acoustic gear deep into southern Italy to record inside a centuries-old Apulian trullo....
John Vanore on ‘Easter Island Suite’: A Four-Decade Jazz Journey to the World’s Loneliest Island
Philadelphia trumpeter and composer John Vanore has spent more than 40 years mapping an island he has never set foot on, and his new album Easter Island Suite...
Harold Bronson of Rhino Records Revisits His Lost Garage Band: Mogan David & His Winos Return With ‘Savage Young Winos’
Before he helped turn Rhino Records into the gold standard of reissues, before the books, the Grammys, and the reputation as one of rock’s most obsessive historians, Harold...