As they say, it takes one to know one. It takes a rare spirit to pledge the lifetime oath to music journalism; a road paved with late nights, ignored real life obligations and little to no pay. Celebrating 30 years [...]
Almost five years to the date, a beautiful baby blog was brought into the world by the name of CoolDad Music. Over the years, the site’s Jim Appio has welcomed music lovers of all stripes not only to his wealth [...]
My January hiatus will be coming to an end soon, and I will be back in the fold. There have been a couple of shows I have missed out on due to weather and work. I am about to embark [...]
This past October, Kiwi born, New York based, self-described “twisty, indie, folk” band Streets of Laredo released their second record, entitled Wild. In the midst of its release, I was able to catch singer, guitarist, pretty much a bit of [...]
All photos credited to: Michelle Figueroa We need more bands like Transviolet. And if you haven’t heard their hauntingly compelling music yet, after this year, I guarantee you won’t be able to stop talking about them. LA-based, four-piece Transviolet are [...]
Photo Credit: Dries Vandenberg When I met Justin Osborne of SUSTO at Music Hall of Williamsburg he was wearing a bejeweled weed leaf necklace that might be found at South of the Border. It’s the sort of thing you’d find [...]
When the OnPoint Music and Arts Festival was initially announced, I was immediately taken by the quality of the lineup curation and overall organization. Then I found out the festival was the passion project of two Stevens Institute of Technology [...]
If you are in the ska-punk scene and haven’t been listening to everything The Interrupters put out, you’ve been messing up pretty bad. This band has made more progress in the scene in the last two years than most bands [...]
For the San Francisco-based artist Jimmy Dias, life has offered several callings. In duly following, Dias has found enlightenment in studying to be a shamanic healer and through music. It was through the latter pursuit that Dias came to found [...]
Less Than Jake – the band that has had more influence on my sound than any other band I’ve ever listened to – was the second interview of my Fake Famous career! I’ve hung out with the guys of Less [...]
