Some bands just play a few gigs here and there, while others embrace their civic duty to bring the music to the masses, night after night! No Age, with their insatiable desire to elevate folks beyond the clouds of despair and disillusionment with a conceptual allegiance to the idea of People Helping People, land squarely in the latter category. With a U.S. run already under their belts, Dean and Randy now set their sights to the U.K. and Europe to further spread the gospel of... (read more)

Every Alasdair Roberts album displays a unique dimension, existing somewhere between the two complimentary poles of "pop" and "folk" while oscillating from superlative original songs to masterful interpretation of traditional songs from Scotland and beyond. The forthcoming Grief In The Kitchen and Mirth In The Hall, his fifth full-length collection of traditional songs, finds Alasdair returning to his roots, where this thing of music and song hasn’t come the eons it’s traveled to simply entertain - it also cuts deep to the bone.

"The... (read more)

With the impending arrival of Drag On Girard on March 24th, the brilliance of Mike Polizze’s music, beyond the obvious — his singing/screaming guitar leads, classic song construction and vivid hope + dream feels —is the shifting, dynamic personality of each Purling Hiss album. This time out, the colliding circles of time seem to have inspired both the songs and the band, as the sentiment-drenched mood explodes in a wild tangle of guitars set to overwhelm the room.

With "Baby", the second single from ... (read more)

More in tune now with the rhythm of the sun and moon, Xylouris White (Dirty Jim White and George Xylouris) speak to each other across great distances with the intuition and fellowship that can only be found over years in each other’s company. With fewer distractions, appreciative of the freedom to play with new sounds and spaces, they carve The Forest In Me from unbelievably thin air.

Once you set the needle down on the record and hear for yourself, the... (read more)