There are second acts in American life, but there are sometimes second act problems too. Dee Snider knows both those adages well. Having spent the first part of his career as vocalist and primary songwriter for Twisted Sister, he and… Read More
Daniel Rodriguez knows loss, and perhaps more intimately than many of us. Running parallel to Elephant Revival’s breakup was the end of a 14-year romantic relationship. These two significant misfortunes left Rodriguez seemingly lost. However, he turned a new leaf… Read More
While the COVID-19 pandemic put plans for their third album on hold, Brooklyn-based psychedelic dream-pop/jazz/soul sextet GADADU saw it as an opportunity to revisit an old song and reconstruct it remotely. The result is “dosaardvark”, their new single, which premieres… Read More
Real Gone Music has partnered with Steve Wynn (The Dream Syndicate) for a new 11-CD set titled Decade, releasing 23 October. The collection follows Wynn’s guitar-driven albums released between 1995 and 2005, most of which have been long out of… Read More
Joseph Campbell, famed mythologist and a compelling speaker (popularized via a Bill Moyers special toward the end of his life), spoke of myth as an image, a symbol, a kind of guiding metanarrative into the unknown ‘mystery of being’. Myths,… Read More
X-Men: Dark Phoenix (Kinberg, 2019) is the seventh and final X-Men team film in a series dating back to X-Men (Singer, 2000). Blade (Norrington, 1998), X-Men, and Spider-Man (Raimi, 2002) were three increasingly successful and acclaimed films that jump-started two… Read More
Harlem-based singer-songwriter River Hooks began her career at the age of 11 and by 16 was uploading covers of songs by Billie Ellish, Chelsea Cutler and others to SoundCloud. Soon after, she was writing and recording her own material, culminating… Read More
In a time of sickness and great division, Front Country aims to heal with “The Reckoning”. The hopeful hymn was written around a year prior to the rise of COVID-19 but eerily strikes a chord in its potent lyricism: “Maybe… Read More
Dan Baird called it quits just in time. In 2019, after touring around the world for the better part of 40 years as a member of the Georgia Satellites, as a solo act, and finally as the frontman for Dan… Read More
Nate “Rocket” Wonder and Roman GianArthur worked with alt-pop maestro Janelle Monáe through the Wondaland Arts Society, which helped her develop a series of increasingly complex Afro-futuristic albums. The duo worked with Monáe again on the upcoming film, Antebellum, where… Read More