It’s easy to make a really loud rock and roll record. People like Dave Grohl have made entire careers out of “loud” as a descriptor. What is infinitely more difficult, however, is to make a loud record that has weight. [...]
2018 was a transformative year for B.Wood. Aside from leaving his former band to pursue a perpetual path of music and working his debut solo release, Bryan Wood embarked on a two month national tour with his friends in The [...]
I’m always interested in bands that expand the definition of pop. There are countless indie rock and emo bands that at their very core, beneath distorted guitars, are writing good pop songs. Athens, GA’s Needle Teeth’s have just released their [...]
Last week, High Waisted, Treads, The Furies and Talay joined forces at Brooklyn Bowl as a part of The Spectrum Concert Series: Celebrating Women in Music. SIMGE photographer Mike Petzinger was on hand to capture all of the action. Check [...]
I have been to The Foundry a few times for shows but never to its parent venue, The Fillmore. That finally changed for me as I kicked off the weekend taking in The Truth Tour, headlined by Nothing More. The [...]
There are some records that always put a smile on my face, regardless of what mood I’m in. They seem to have an almost magical disregard for the harsh reality we live in, as if they were written in an [...]
Photo Credit: Jessica Gurewitz Bubbling up out of a sonic primordial soup is Dunbar Swamp, the delightfully new psych-fuzz LP from Ghost King. Featuring, Carter McNeil (Vocals/Guitar), Jorg Almengor (Bass), Daniel Sweeney (Drums) and Christian VM (Guitar/Synth), the nine-track album [...]
I tend to think of the 80s as a musical decade I skip over. With its annoying, compressed-to-hell snare drum sound and its cheesy, huge, rock ballads, it seems like a decade in between the warmth and rawness of the [...]
The holiday weekend kicked off for for me with an overbook, and an offer to stay home. Naturally I accepted, and therein opened me up for a night at The Stone Pony to take in the Second Annual Jingle Jam. [...]
I had another one of those restless nights trying to sleep on Monday, still stoked up from a night at Happy Mondays. Maybe, subliminally, that is why I missed quite a few of them…fear of lack of sleep. NOT. Who [...]
