Cover Story
Cover Story – Liam Gallagher
What becomes a legend most? Itâs an old question when it comes to pop stars and celebrities in general. Not rhetorical at all, but a real procedural, albeit aesthetic conundrum whose answer â either flamboyant or conversely simplified â can often have disastrous long-term results on the career of the said performer. You’ll […]
Cover Story: Sam Fender
Ostensibly, this is an article about British rock newcomer Sam Fender and his brilliant, one-in-a-million debut disc, Hypersonic Missiles – easily the best album of the year. Nothing can touch it; itâs so far ahead of the pack. But itâs also a moment where we canât help but break with a few staid journalistic traditions […]
Cover Story: The B-52s
Kate Pierson may not have coined the suddenly-popular new portmanteau “glamping,” a mashup of glamorous and camping. Nor did she come up with its posh concept âexperiencing the great outdoors, but through the comfortable buffer of the most modern of conveniences. No, the bouffant-haired B-52âs founder had nothing to do with any part of this […]
Cover Story: Perry Farrell
It took Brazilian author Paulo Coelho just two weeks to write back in â87, but the compact little novel The Alchemist is one of those metaphysical, feel-good reads that not only deserves to be on every literate bookshelf alongside The Little Prince, but demands to be revisited every couple of years lest its wisdom be […]
Cover Story: John Paul White
Itâs a morsel of time-tested wisdom â initially put forward by Mahatma Gandhi â that just becomes more relevant with each passing day:Â âBe the change that you want to see in the world.â As in, stop kvetching about Donald Trump and all his horrific misdeeds and get involved with the grassroots groundswell of fighting […]
Cover Story: Steve Earle
Itâs a puzzlement, a Sphinx-like riddle for the ages. How in holy hell has resident alt-country iconoclast Steve Earle managed to keep his mouth shut over the past three Trump-and-Brexit bedeviled years? Make no mistake, what heâs offered instead has been stunning â2017âs picture-perfect loper So You Wannabe an Outlaw â polished still brighter by […]
Cover Story: Gary Clark Jr.
The Chosen One. The Future of the Blues Guitar. The Next Stevie Ray Vaughan. Savior of the Blues. At only 35-years of age, Gary Clark Jr. has carried a lot of pressure on his slim shoulders. But from the time he was a teen, blasting away his elders at Austin nightclubs, a grand destiny […]
Cover Story: The Way Down Wanderers
Peoria natives The Way Down Wanderers may be new to many, but since dropping a self-titled debut in 2016, as well as a pair of EPs and a live recording, the quintet has steadily swelled their grassroots fan base with an alluring, frequently unexpected hybrid of heartland sounds. Comprised of guitarist/vocalist Austin Krause-Thompson, mandolin player/violinist/guitarist/vocalist […]
Cover Story: Hozier
When Andrew Hozier-Byrne looks back on his past four successful years â ever since his eponymous debut disc went #1 in his native Ireland and Top 10 around the world, fueled by the irresistible, Gospel-fervent smash single âTake Me to Churchâ â he has a tough time remembering all his subsequent major career coups. […]
Cover Story: nothing, nowhere.
Cries for help donât come much more urgently. Last month, brash young Saturday Night Live comedian Pete Davidson â who had joked for months in sketches about being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder â lost any remaining shreds of humor about his often-debilitating condition when he posted an alarming message on Instagram, right before he […]
Cover Story: Old 97s
Rhett Miller tried incredibly hard not to let it bother him. He really did. But then he made the unfortunate mistake of looking up the numbers, and the usually calm, cool, and collected Old 97s bandleader went ballistic because the numbers didnât lie. âLast Christmasâ by frickinâ George Michael â God rest his soul â […]
Cover Story and Gallery: The Struts
It was a popular, yet perhaps far-fetched concept that was titillating impressionable society a few years back. And it was relatively simple, all told, and loosely based on comic Danny Wallaceâs book Yes Man, which was later satirized to a zanier degree in Jim Carreyâs film version of the same name: If you simply responded […]
Cover Story: Greta Van Fleet
Iâm sure Iâm not alone in my lament that rock & and roll is on life support, and rock stars are fewer and farther between than in the past. Iâm going to bet, though, that youâll feel like youâve sucked a deep hit off an oxygen tank the moment you hear Greta Van Fleet. […]
Cover Story: The Voidz
âA manâs got to know his limitations,â Clint Eastwood once observed as the defiant renegade cop Dirty Harry. Similarly unforgiving Strokes bandleader Julian Casablancas is still gradually discovering his own with his latest splinter combo âinitially dubbed Julian Casablancas + The Voidz, now known simply as The Voidz â and its sleek, sophisticated sophomore […]
Cover Story: Børns
Today Garrett Borns might be the foppish baroque-pop trendsetter who records as simply Børns, with three adventurous albums to his credit, including the new Blue Madonna, his second for Interscope. But there was a time not so long ago when the Michigan native was at the mercy of a pack of marauding masked bandits after […]
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