Rock

While the concept for Rotting Kingdom originated in 2012, the band formed in 2016 and is a melodic death doom quintet. It is comprised of members of various other Kentucky-based metal acts, who have all been friends for years and grew up together...

While spending time trying to conquer the audio of live-stream athome performances, I got better acquainted with my friend Adam McDaniel, an engineer and producer in Asheville, NC. Adam and I had known each other for years. When the band was a bit...

While recording Unknown Mortal Orchestra's latest release, Sex & Food, Ruban Nielson, his longtime collaborator Jacob Portrait and his brother Kody Nielson, found themselves in the Vietnamese city of Hanoi playing and recording with local musicians at...

While recording a group of songs that would end up being part of This World Just Eats Me Up Alive, Brian Crook took a break outside with his bandmates. A small girl nearby ran up to a woman saying "Mommy, mommy! There's a vampire here!" The mother asked...

While on the island of Syros in the Aegean Sea for a film festival performance, Christina Vantzou experienced what she characterized as "a moment of focus"-a specific vision for the sprawl of raw recordings she'd been amassing for her fifth album. Upon...

While on a writing retreat in the sleepy southern town of Benton, Mississippi, the members of New York's Ava Luna came across an abandoned house while on a walk through the woods. Overgrown, rotting, and littered with evidence of it's past inhabitants,...

While not a household name outside of Norway, J°rn ?leskjµr has been writing and performing music for nearly 20 years. He's released four studio albums with the indie pop band the Loch Ness Mouse with two of those albums being nominated for Pop Album of...

While no stranger to self-producing, 2020 and 2021 found Krug diving deeper than ever into the possibilities of his home setup, and therein refining a distinct blend of richly analog-acoustic and unabashedly artificial sounds. This self-aware and...

While never dropping their trademark sexy, horror-flick flair, their new CD, produced by Bad Religion's Brett Gurewitz, reveals new depths of songwriting. Brash, Link Wray guitars, singer Patricia's sultry petulance, throbbing standup bass; all served up...

While Montego Bay natives Jackie Bernard, his brother Footy Bernard and cousin Lloyd Kerr recorded under various guises in the early '60s, their collective arrival as The Kingstonians in 1967 marked a sea change not only in the vocal trio's productivity...

While many of us have struggled to salvage a sense of purpose from a year's worth of isolation, veteran New York rocker Willie Nile has tapped into his own lockdown experience as a source of inspiration for the set of haunting new songs that comprise his...

While largely overshadowed by the pop hits he crafted for Monument later in his career, Roy Orbison's work for Sun is deserving of praise. From the aching of "Ooby Dooby" or the proto rockabilly of "Go! Go! Go!" Roy's work here is solid and energetic...