I’ll be the first to admit I probably haven’t been as tuned into new music this year as I was last year. I’m not sure what to blame, really, but I will say that the albums I loved this year have made up for it all with sheer qualit…
Popblerd writer Mike A. lists his Top 10 albums of the first half of 2012 as well as a few of his most anticipated releases for the second half of the year, including the latest album by Jamie Woon!
Remember when this book was your Bible and no one older than you knew what was going on? Guess what? Now you’re what you hated. Dave Rullo bridges the generational gap in the latest Aging Hip Replacement column.
Frontmen around the world should take a cue from Paul Smith, singer/wordsmith extraordinaire of Maximo Park, and learn to take a step away and do that solo album you always talk about so you can come back to your original band re-energized and refoc…
Adam Levine and his Merry Maroons are back for Round 4 with “Overexposed.” It’s the biggest release in a week full of biggies. Read our latest New Release Report to find out who else has got new music out!
The Blerd13 gets a twofer from Nachtmystium as Blake Judd and Sanford Parker discuss the band’s upcoming album Silencing Machine, touring plans, and being one of the most diverse Black Metal acts around.
If you’re watching TV tonight, make sure you’re checking out the season premiere of “UnSung” on TvOne, which profiles Sly & The Family Stone. Also, Maxwell cancels his tour and Amy Winehouse joins Nas on his new album.
The title track from bespectacled, gruff underground rhymer Soul Khan’s Wellstone EP now has an accompanying video; Khan plays a downtrodden, put-upon vet, in an evocative visualization of the soulful, Grass Roots-sampling track. Watch the…
The fact that there is not only new Life On Planet 9 music less than a year after their stunning debut but also the promise of a new album from vocalist Pete Murray’s other band Lo-Pro (Said to be even heavier than his defunct former band Ul…
Brooklyn-based underground emcee, Brown Bag All-Star, and vaunted ex-battle rapper Soul Khan has released the latest in his deeply personal “Soulstice” series, “Soulstice 4″. Unspooling razor-sharp lyrical imagery over a mou…
Haters gon’ hate. (Even though LeBron’s 2012 season was Michael, Magic, and Larry all rolled into one.) But what they won’t be able to say is that he’s not an NBA champion. In the penultimate game of his NBA career, LeBron J…