From Jeff Rosenstock: I started writing songs for this record almost immediately after Album Minus Band was done, but the tricky thing about it was that I started working so much more. It became really difficult to find time after an eight hour work day to crank up your guitar in a way that wouldn…
Bon Iver is Justin Vernon returning to former haunts with a new spirit. The reprises are there, solitude, quietude, hope and desperation compressed, but always a rhythm arises, a pulse vivified by gratitude and grace notes. The winter, the legend, has faded to just that, and this is the new momentary present.“Bon Iver is often equated with just…
Vinyl LP pressing. 2024 release. Forever features 12 new songs from one of history s most iconic bands, Bon Jovi, including the lead single, Legendary.
Bon Jovi – Greatest Hits 2 LP edition of Bon Jovi s best-selling Greatest Hits compilation. Released in 2010, it features 16 tracks, including the hits Livin On A Prayer, You Give Love A Bad Name, Bad Medicine, I ll Be There For You, It s My Life, and much more. Island Records; Island; Rock;…
Slow Burn: A feeling that grows with a slow but deliberate intensity. That sums up Boney James music, career and the vibe of his newest album. The iconic 4x Grammy-nominated sax man s 19th album is another deliberate step on his creative journey. Featuring legendary jazz R&B artists Marcus Miller and Cory Henry, the record…
With a king-sized sound as gargantuan as the towering monster from which their moniker is derived, Bongzilla light up the modern-day rock world with Amerijuanican. Blending industrial-sized, vertigo-inducing riffs with a sludgy, fuzzy crunch and hedonistic, yet harassed message, the single-minded quartet burn with a bad ass bent reserved for rock and roll titans. A…
1997 s Methods For Attaining Extreme Altitudes presented three opus magni for the elevating of musical consciousness, and proved to be a perfect companion to a serious bong session. Two heavy, stoner-rock anthems and a billowy sonic cloud of ethereal experimentation (aptly titled Smoke I Love Maryjane ) lit up the senses, and produced a…
In 1999, the hemp-friendly horticulturists returned from the stratosphere once again, bringing with them some of the best THC-powered rock ever exhaled. In the truest sense of irony, the original release date for Stash fell on April 20, 1999 (4 20), a release date that occurs only once every seven years. In addition (and also…
Lockdown was a period of constant music-making. I asked a farmer friend to send his crops, from which I hoped to backflip into some new song-structures. I partook of the crop, the songs began. I called the endeavor High and High and Mighty (abbreviated as HAHAM) and invited a brilliant pedal steel player to collaborate….
The Purple Bird finds Bonnie Prince Billy working with a producer for only the second time in his illustrious catalog. This time it s David Ferg Ferguson (Johnny Cash, Sturgill Simpson) who guides the songs backed by the best band you can get in Nashville right now , country singer John Anderson and Bluegrass legend…
The Purple Bird finds Bonnie Prince Billy working with a producer for only the second time in his illustrious catalog. This time it s David Ferg Ferguson (Johnny Cash, Sturgill Simpson) who guides the songs backed by the best band you can get in Nashville right now , country singer John Anderson and Bluegrass legend…
When Nathan Salsburg s daughter was a baby, he often sang her to sleep in a rocking chair. At one point, he remembered a song he had taught himself as a teenager: The Evidence by Lungfish, the Maryland band who coined a singular brand of post-punk in the 90s and 00s. Salsburg realized he could…
When Nathan Salsburg s daughter was a baby, he often sang her to sleep in a rocking chair. At one point, he remembered a song he had taught himself as a teenager: The Evidence by Lungfish, the Maryland band who coined a singular brand of post-punk in the 90s and 00s. Salsburg realized he could…
In this wake of Bonnie Prince Billy s soul-affirming (shattering?) Master and Everyone, the Prince took a year or so to gather himself before the Letting Go. Stock was taken and a bunch of greatest Palace songs were rerecorded in best classic style, with a crew of Nashville studio wreckers smoothing down the edges. The…
Over the years, Bonny Light Horseman has accumulated many miles on the collective odometer of life. The band s core trio – Anaïs Mitchell, Eric D. Johnson, and Josh Kaufman – has amassed an incomparable collected resume. Mitchell is a celebrated solo artist as well as the playwright and songwriter behind the hit Broadway musical Hadestown, which notched eight…
By All Means Necessary is often discussed like it’s some departure from Criminal Minded. The moment KRS turned into “The Teacha” and became a politically minded, socially conscious wordsmith. In reality, this is who he already was. Misunderstanding and tragedy is what compelled him to not only refocus on the role he wanted to play in hip-hop,…