Drew MorganThe Honda Civic Tour has struck again – for the 10th year in a row, as a matter of fact! This year, the annual pop/punk/hip-hop/rock show is featuring the headlining acts Blink-182 and My Chemical Romance, with an ever-changing selection of supporting bands. When the show went rolling through Detroit, my concert-going city of choice, they brought along dance-punk-indie-pop duo Matt & Kim to warm up the crowd. Sadly, I wasn’t able to dance to…
Broken Boy Soldiers: The Raconteurs Are Back
Hailie Hay
I was honestly afraid we’d seen the last of musician/producer Jack White, considering he stopped touring with the Dead Weather late last year and disbanded the White Stripes earlier this year, and that we’d therefore seen the last of the Raconteurs…but I was afraid (past-tense), until I happened upon Jack’s Third Man Records site a few days back. To my (and, presumably, most other Raconteurs fans around the globe) surprise, the Raconteurs have announced an upcoming show…
5 Questions For The Tedeschi Trucks Band
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Tedeschi Trucks Band - Revelator
Enjoying a Sweet Flashback
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Band of Skulls to Embark on European Tour
Left to right: Russell Marsden (guitar, vocals), Emma Richardson (bass, vocals), and Matt Hayward (drums.).
New Arctic Monkeys video: ‘The Hellcat Spangled Shalala”
Tibi Puiu
The new Arctic Monkeys album, “Suck It and See”, has been out for well over a month now, time in which myself and other fine individuals have been almost religiously preaching to friends, relatives and blog readers how incredibly tight this LP is. The record’s first single, “The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala”, is incredibly infectious and sticky like most of you, I’m sure, have already been given to find out. The video for the single can…
Mastodon new LP cover art for “The Hunter”
Besides Brent Hinds doing burrito commercials, you should know Mastodon is prepping a new album, titled “The Hunter”, which is already up and ready and allegedly up for an October release attempt for this year. Above is the insanely awesome cover art for the new LP, which sits well on par with their other equally mad covers. I have a sense they changed their designer, though it all might be due to a whole shift…
Bob Dylan’s Never Ending Tour gets a new round of dates
Thirty-four studio albums released and 70 years in, Bob Dylan seems more like an extraterrestrial than a simple human being. If any of you have been following Bob Dylan around for a while in his past 50 years career, you’d probably know that the prolific songwriter has embarked on his Never Ending Tour in 1988 and never looked back since. Yes, the man meant it, and hasn’t slowed down from the 100 shows a year…
The Kills Come Back for More: Second North American Tour for 2011
Apparently, the seventeen tour dates completed in North America this spring weren’t enough for The Kills, seeing as the raw rock n’ roll duo from London just announced a second leg of the tour, which consists of nine dates and begins this August. The band, comprised of powerful (and daunting) vocalist Alison Mosshart and her striking guitarist Jamie Hince, has been touring in support of their latest and (according to many critics) greatest album to date, Blood Pressures. Because of…
Robin Trower Wants To Take Rock & Roll Back
My calm Tuesday morning erupted with the pleasure of speaking with one of the most under rated guitarists of our times, Robin Trower. At age 66 he has been nominated for the 2011 British Blues Awards, and with that he chuckled “I am not even sure I’m a blues player” and that “I think of myself as a Rock & Roll guitar player really, with a lot of Blues in there, which Rock & Roll…