Music these days is a constantly changing medium. Whether it is how it’s presented, how you listen to it or even the prevalent style of the day, it can be difficult to keep up with it all. What hasn’t changed it that the blues is still going strong. In the 2010s, acts such as Benjamin […]
Music collaborations seem like they’ve become a yearly thing. Last year pop star maniac Miley Cyrus worked with psychedelic acid punk weirdos The Flaming Lips to put out Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz, an album that definitely raised a few eyebrows. This time around we have three different types of artists colliding to create […]
It hasn’t even been five months and Ty Segall has another album coming out. The last release he was associated with was Fuzz’s II back in October, a ’70s heavy metal adorned garage rock opus that topped the end of the year list of yours truly a month ago. This time around, Segall is going […]
1. Saturday, January 16: The Quahogs (CD release), Smith & Weeden, Hott Boyz; $10 advance / $12 day of; All ages; The Columbus Theatre, 270 Broadway, Providence. The Quahogs have come along way to get to this CD release party. Frontman Steve Delmoncio has been performing as The Quahogs since 2011. You might not have seen […]
An electronic act recently started in The Creative Capital that has the potential to get a buzz going in 2016 is Bellerophon, the brainchild of musician Mauricio Ossa. Ahead of the band’s show at Dusk on January 16 with Attleboro synth rockers Cat Has Claws and fellow electronic act Favourite, I had a chat with […]
Portland, Oregon, act Radiation City convey this synthy style of dream-pop that takes over your senses. Reminiscent of Portishead and Roxy Music, the band takes bits and pieces of trip-hop and art rock and blends it into an art form that’s truly their own. Their upcoming album, Synesthetica, has tracks that’ll entrance you while others […]
In 1951, the late Langston Hughes questioned societal ideologies with a simple question, “What happens to a dream deferred?” Many have dared to tackle this question and failed, but one man has defied the odds of living the American Dream: Sokeo Ros. Born in a Cambodian refugee camp in Thailand and the first of his […]
By day, Pittsburgh’s James Addlespurger is a mild-mannered educator at a high school for the creative and performing arts. Armed with chalk and curriculum, he molds impressionable young minds into fine, creative citizens, poised to take on the world. One could argue that his day job is literally doing God’s work. However, when the clock […]
Okee dokee folks … have we all settled comfortably into 2016? Hands? I have successfully written the date a couple of times on checks, and I made no resolutions, so I am all set. Besides, I have plenty of stuff left over from last year to take care of. Not resolutions, just stuff. When I […]
I had planned to start with a brief tribute to Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t include a few words about David Bowie, whose passing I haven’t had time to really process. As far as Lemmy, people always talk about Keith Richards being the personification of the rock ‘n’ roll […]