Oct 20, 2022 Web Exclusive By Lee Campbell Photography by Dean Chalkley. As one of the founding members of Simple Minds way back in 1977, guitarist Charlie Burchill seems to be working as hard as ever with no sign of the band slowing down. Despite residing in Italy for years, he has not lost his thick Glaswegian accent. He will …

Apr 30, 2024 Web Exclusive By Andy Von Pip. Sunday (1994) recently made waves with their stunning debut single, “Tired Boy.” Not only does the single resonate like a lost classic, but the band also arrived with a fully formed visual aesthetic.

Jan 03, 2025 Web Exclusive By Scotty Dransfield. Night Palace, Mount Eerie’s eleventh studio album and Phil Elverum’s first under that name since 2018’s Now Only, feels like a grand return to the wide-ranging and adventurous spirit of Elverum’s seminal 2001 classic as The Microphones, The Glow Pt. 2.Elverum has historically lived and made music in …

May 24, 2021 Web Exclusive By Jake Uitti Photography by Rocky Schenck. As soon as the bouncy guitar riff from Violent Femmes’ enduring pop hit, “Blister in the Sun,” comes on the stereo, likely you’re immediately boosted into a good mood. Then the childlike snare drums clap and the helium-like singing voice of the band’s frontman, Gordon Gano, comes in and the melody-induced grin on ...

Dec 17, 2024 Web Exclusive By Zachary Lee Photography by The Criterion Collection “What’s the most you ever lost on a coin toss?” That line, uttered by Javier Bardem’s sadistic and psychopathic mercenary Anton Chigurh, opens Joel and Ethan Coen’s neo-Western crime thriller No Country for Old Men with wrathful violence and unforgiving charisma.

Dec 22, 2024 · Classic Interviews Tank and the Bangas on “Red Balloon” Your New Radio May 12, 2022 Web Exclusive. On a Spring day in early April, Tarriona “Tank” Ball of the New Orleans funk-soul group, Tank and the Bangas, is driving to get some lunch.The night before, Ball was joined by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band for a rendition of the National Anthem at the NCAA Men’s Basketball final ...

Nov 01, 2024 Web Exclusive By Dom Gourlay. Having been teasing the prospect of a new Cure album for some time, the band’s 14th long player is finally with us. The long-awaited follow-up to 2008’s 4:13 Dream, Songs of a Lost World is a thing of beauty. Composed of eight songs—five of which have been regular staples in the band’s live sets since October 2022—Songs of a …

Jul 06, 2021 Web Exclusive By Jake Uitti. For those, like me, reading this who grew up in the 1990s, the names Adam Duritz and Counting Crows are as ubiquitous as any other monikers in our memory banks. We remember when we heard “Mr. Jones” on the radio the first time—if you were like me growing up in central New Jersey, you heard it almost hourly on 97.5 WPST Trenton and Philadelphia!

Aug 30, 2024 Web Exclusive By Matt the Raven. Nick Cave’s recent personal tragedies of loss, grief, and sorrow have been well documented and reflected in the music of the past few Bad Seeds albums—2016’s Skeleton Tree and 2019’s Ghosteen—as well as Carnage, the 2021 album cut with longtime corroborator Warren Ellis.Now it appears as though Cave has completed a lifework transformation ...

The Greatest Night in Pop, about the writing and recording of USA for Africa’s “We Are the World” at Henson Studios is a masterpiece of director Bao Nguyen.Seeing the musicians’ personalities in close quarters, working all night, is a once in a lifetime opportunity. The footage of superstars standing nervously in the same room and bringing their best performance to the table is nicely ...