Tame Impala 12.15.10 Echoplex | Los Angeles, California
Tame Impala has built an international audience in its short time touring but they’ve received a particularly warm western welcome this year, playing sold out
Liz Phair 12.12.10 Maxwell’s Hoboken, New Jersey
Liz Phair, the grungy, gritty woman with the primadonna face owned the room at Maxwell’s in Hoboken in support of her self-released album Funstyle
Freelance Whales ‘Subway Grandstanding’
Freelance Whales guitarist Kevin Read weighs in on Weathervanes and rock stardom as his tour van rumbled up California’s 5 freeway
Stereolab ‘Not Music’
Stereolab deserves some serious attention as their body of work is perhaps even more notable than their tabloid poised band history which incorporates everything from
The Budos Band ‘Unbroken, Unshaven’
We spit hot air with The Budos Band’s baritone saxophonist Jared Tankel about covering The Beatles, partying with Mark Ronson, and embracing his heavy metal
Matt and Kim: Teetering on the Brink of Stardom
“The thing about Brooklyn is there are a lot of different scenes,” says Matt Johnson (vocals/keyboards). “We come from a particular sort of D.I.Y warehouse
Brendan Benson 11.13.10 Highline Ballroom New York City
Brendan Benson, frequently tagged as a founding member of rock n’ roll power quartet, The Raconteurs, has most recently found himself on the front end
Brian Eno ‘Small Craft on a Milk Sea’
Brian Eno is not a member of Generation X and was not fed the music software or music production technology as we were at birth
Black Taxi 10.29.10 The Parish | Austin, TX
Black Taxi doesn’t care who is watching or what you think of them; they are simply predisposed to deliver dynamic musicality and captivating Vaudevillian stage
The Black Crowes ‘Say Goodnight to the Bad Guys’
Now a 41-year old troubadour, Rich Robinson of The Black Crowes has no hesitation in hanging onto the roots of his musical influence. The guitarist
Keller Williams ‘From the Songbook of a Family Man’
Keller Williams chats about touring with ‘Yo Gabba Gabba Live’, listening to Furthur, and what musical genre he’ll never cover
Iggy Pop & James Williamson ‘Kill City’
What inflates the intrigue behind the reissue of Kill City is the key moment that it marks between the Stooges and Iggy Pop
