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Reviews of new music, video, concerts and music festivals.
COVER STORY: How GA-20 Infuses Vintage Tone Into Their Modern Sound
If you want to know what GA-20 is all about, just let them tell you about their gear: “We have...
VINYL OF THE MONTH: Raibard
Raibard Dark Realm of the Daylight Boston, MA (Self-Released) Sometimes music comes into your life...
Sub-Radio Prove POP is Not a Dirty Word
We had the pleasure of working with indie pop-rock act Sub-Radio recently as part of a larger video promotion with Elixir Strings, and the sheer amount of fun the boys projected through the screen...
Efterklang: Redefining Their Process Through the Pandemic
Childhood school friends Casper Clausen, Mads Brauer and Rasmus Stolberg grew up on the tiny Danish island of Als, sharing their love of electronic and classical music. Now known as Efterklang, the...
COVER STORY: Eric Burton of Black Pumas Interview
Black Pumas’ Eric Burton on Keeping it Simple and Being the Man of the People In the middle of Black Pumas’ dynamite Austin City Limits performance from early last year, lead singer Eric Burton...
RECORD REVIEW: Drew Beskin — Problematic for the People
Athens singer/songwriter Drew Beksin’s upcoming third full-length solo album, Problematic for the People, feels like it just fell out of an episode of American Bandstand. Visualize a gaggle of girls...
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE: Handsome Jack’s “Roll It”
We're huge fans of Handsome Jack, who we worked with a while back on a fun project to demo the iZotope Spire Studio. Well, the band's never been one to rest on its laurels, and they're back with a...
BOOK REVIEW: PUSH TURN MOVE, Interface Design in Electronic Music
If you read our recent review of Patch & Tweak (also published by BJOOKS), you’ll know that we’re absolutely in love with the new series of coffee-table books coming out of this publishing...
Sunny War: Punk-Folk Guitarist on Optimism and Survival
Sydney Ward (aka Sunny War) isn’t your typical blues guitarist. Raised in a musical family between Nashville and Detroit’s music hubs, at an early age she developed a unique acoustic guitar style....
Lou Barlow and the Quest for Change Amidst Chaos
Few musical artists from the last few decades have been as prolific as Lou Barlow. Ever since alt-rock luminaries Dinosaur Jr. burst onto the scene with their eclectic-sounding debut in 1985, the...
COVER STORY: AJ Smith Turns Engineering Into Creative Fuel
AJ Smith is jack of all trades, and well, a master of them all, too. Starting off his professional career on an engineering path, he found himself pursuing music and songwriting (and thank goodness,...
RECORD REVIEW: Kevin Lawson ‘Now is Perfect’
Kevin Lawson reminds us that “Now is Perfect” with his latest solo release. Kevin Lawson stepped onto a stage for the first time in the 5th grade and hasn’t stepped off since (well, minus a...