CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND: AQUA Announce 25th Anniversary Reissue of Debut Album Aquarium
Glenn Rowley July 29, 2022 | 2:27pm ET Get ready to be happy boys and girls, because Aqua have announced a 25th anniversary reissue of their debut album, Aquarium, out September 9th via Universal Music Denmark. The reissue will be available in digital and vinyl formats. The latter will come in either hot pink or white vinyl along with […]
GRIMY GOODS: IMAAD WASIF Releases Lush and Ephemeral New Album ‘SO LONG MR. FEAR’
Building a pathway to get through the coronavirus pandemic, guitarist and songwriter Imaad Wasif’s new album, So Long Mr. Fear — out now via Sonic Ritual — is a beautiful, ephemeral burst of light; a beacon of hope and desire in a sea of confusion. Soft, with a touch of nostalgia, the album shines lyrically, with minimal production and warm, resonating […]
REVOLVER: Hear DROWNING POOL Honor Pantera on Wickedly Heavy New Song “MIND RIGHT”
text ELI ENIS August 5, 2022 For the last 20 years, Drowning Pool have consistently put out music that stretches beyond the pounding nu-metal of their 2001 debut, Sinner. At times, they’ve drifted into softer territory with a more grungey flavor, but whether you’ve been following their career the whole time or you haven’t checked in since the iconic […]
HOLLYWOOD LIFE: Queen Kwong Shares How New Album ‘Couples Only’ Is About Validating Emotions
By: Jason Brow August 10, 2022 1:30PM EDT From the dark and industrial-tinted opening notes of “I Know Who You Are,” it’s clear that Queen Kwong‘s new album comes from a place that’s intensely personal and equally powerful. Throughout eleven tracks, Queen Kwong (née Carré Kwong Callaway) unleashes a visceral howl of pain, rage, grief, sorrow, and […]
SPIN: 5 Motorcycles I Can’t Live Without: Daniel Ash Of Bauhaus/Love And Rockets/Tones On Tail
Written By Liza Lentini – July 22, 2022 This was meant to be a 5 Albums I Can’t Live Without column, but Daniel had another idea… ‘See the thing is, what I was thinking would be much more fun for me, and I could really get my teeth into, would be the five motorcycles I couldn’t live without.’ Name Daniel […]
CONSEQUENCE: Gogol Bordello Announce New Album SOLIDARITINE, Share 2022 Tour Dates
Eddie Fu July 19, 2022 | 10:55am ET Gogol Bordello have announced their new album, SOLIDARITINE, out September 16th via Casa Gogol/Cooking Vinyl. Along with it, the gypsy punks have mapped out a Fall 2022 North American tour and shared their latest single “Focus Coin.” A handful of “punkier” tracks originally recorded for Gogol Bordello’s last album, 2017’s Seekers […]
BANDCAMP: Queen Kwong Aim Straight for the Heart on “Couples Only”
The cats were the worst part. When Carré Kwong Callaway’s marriage to Wes Borland—the Limp Bizkit guitarist who was also briefly in her band—ended in 2019, it ended quickly. They were living in Detroit, where they’d moved to refurbish a house for a DIY Network show. As well as home, it became a cat sanctuary—the […]
UNDER THE RADAR: Alicia Blue Shares New Track “DTMTS (Don’t Tell Me To Smile)”
Jul 14, 2022 By Caleb Campbell Photography by Tammie Valer Magnetic Moon · DTMTS – (Don’t Tell Me To Smile) This week, Nashville-based singer/songwriter Alicia Blue is set to return with her new EP, Inner Child Work. Arriving two years after her 2020 debut album, Bravebird, the record sees Blue exploring inward and examining her own path through grief and healing […]
INSIDE EDITION: Family Honors Life of Tyler Kobe Nichols, Man Killed in a Random Act of Violence That Barely Made Headlines
By Sal Bono First Published: 12:42 PM PDT, July 7, 2022 Two days before Christmas 2020, when many around the world were preparing to spend time with loved ones and to make memories to pass down for generations, the Nichols family’s world was upended by a senseless act of violence that haunts them to this day. On Dec. 23, […]
ROLLING STONE: Dead Kennedys Hit Refresh on ‘Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables’ for Reissue
By KORY GROW The Dead Kennedys are finally celebrating the 40th anniversary of their celebrated 1980 debut album, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, by reissuing a “freshly” remixed edition of the LP. A punk benchmark, the album sarcastically skewered early Eighties politics with frontman Jello Biafra’s scabrous wit and guitarist East Bay Ray’s cutting guitar lines on songs like […]