Archive for May 2021

One of the foremost bands of the garage rock revival, and the act most responsible outside of The White Stripes for popularizing two-piece bands over the last 20 years, the Black Keys have carved out a comfortable spot for themselves since 2002 with their energized throwback pastiche. Now following up 2019’s “Let’s Rock”, Carney and Auerbach…

From Alter Bridge to the Conspirators, Myles Kennedy has made his bones being a top-shelf, highly unique vocalist. At 51 years old, he’s yet to show any signs of vocal decline, as evidenced by his performance on Alter Bridge’s Walk The Sky album two years ago. A year before the release of Alter’s latest LP,…

Van Weezer has been dangled over our heads for at least a year now. The recording process began three years ago, with singles being casually dropped and the prospect of the Hella Mega Tour getting fans hyped up. Eventually the record was finished sometime in early 2020, only to have the tour cancelled and the…

Four years after How Did We Get So Dark?, Royal Blood have returned with their third full-length and the road to this release has been quite a journey. From Mike Kerr’s struggle to get sober to the worldwide shuttering and subsequent postponement of live entertainment, Typhoons is the culmination of a two-year odyssey of writing,…

With all the lost dreams, delays and cancellations the current state of the world has wrought upon music, Gojira are yet to waver. They’ve just optimistically announced a North American tour for this fall, and besides that have released Fortitude, their seventh LP and their first in five years since the critically acclaimed Magma. With…