The criticism that Foreigner has to face is much the same as that fielded by Journey and Boston: The current lineup touring under the classic band name bears little resemblance to the group of people responsible for recording the hits that created the brand in the first place.
The Costa Mesa-based band the Growlers formed about eleven years ago, blending surf rock and psychedelia with a dark edge. When the musicians organized their first festival in 2012, they dubbed it “Beach Goth.”
When we spoke with LaRissa Vienna back in March, she described the sound of LaRissa Vienna and the Strange as, “kind of eerie, or spooky-sounding. A lot of it is also harder-hitting, so it lands somewhere in that rock spectrum. The violin really brings an extra element in there. I…
It has been an immense couple of years for Los Angeles indie-rock band Warpaint. Having formed in 2004, the group, composed of Emily Kokal (vocals, guitar), Theresa Wayman (guitar, vocals), Jenny Lee Lindberg (bass, vocals) and Stella Mozgawa (drums), didn’t waste any time building a solid reputation within the then-sparse…
Husband and wife Americana pairing China and Seth Kent, aka Alright Alright, recently told us that they are on their third stab at making this band thing work, and this time they’re determined. That might partially account for the amount of effort that’s gone into their latest video, for the song “Like Water,” with the help of their friends Emily Grauberger (director), David Grauberger (director of photography), and Julie Lundy (producer).
Father John Misty, real name Josh Tillman, was in the news, or at least the gossip columns, this week when Ryan Adams Tweeted insults while in the midst of some sort of social media shade-fest. Adams called Tillman self-important, which we kinda get. He also called him a shit Elton John, which we don’t get at all.
To paraphrase the late Rodney Dangerfield, Eddie Money don’t get no respect. The archetypal blue collar rocker is known for anthems like “Two Tickets to Paradise” and “Take Me Home Tonight,” songs that radio listeners are familiar with before they even know who is responsible for them. But he’s widely considered yesterday’s news. Dated. A has-been.
Local piano-based Americana trio Alright Alright is a mass of contradictions. On one hand, singer/pianist China Kent and guitarist Seth Kent are married parents, as close as people can be. They met when Seth helped China carry her piano into a gig, and that gallantry eventually earned him a wife. When they talk, their words bounce off of each other, but they never interrupt each other. They’re a perfect match.
There’s no just or obvious reason why Lea Luna isn’t at the top of the charts week after week, reigning supreme in a world where EDM and pop have collided in a union that some see as unholy and others find refreshing. That blurred line is where she’s most comfortable, but something isn’t clicking with the world at large — at least not yet.
By the time I had some disposable income to splash around, Guns N’ Roses wasn’t classic anymore.
Before we sit down to talk with metal titans Lamb of God’s grouchy-yet-likeable frontman Randy Blythe, we’re warned by his people that we’re not to discuss his incarceration in a Prague prison five years ago, events that led to his 2014 memoir Dark Days.
On Friday, August 4, the Open Media Foundation hosts its next monthly free Open Music Session event, which will spotlight music from the Budrows, plus local comedy, beer and artists.
Though AFI, or A Fire Inside, formed while singer Davey Havok and long-departed members Mark Stopholese and Vic Chalker were still in high school, and though the first two albums that the band recorded (1995’s Answer That and Stay Fashionable and the following year’s Very Proud of Ya) are certainly efforts to be proud of, the sound of AFI that we know today really started to take shape in ’97 with the Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes record.
The Goo Goo Dolls are probably best known for the monster ballad “Iris” from the City of Angels soundtrack, a fact that must drive their hardcore, long-time fans crazy.
Let’s be honest — they had to have seen it coming. If you call your band Black Pussy and don’t expect some sort of a backlash, then you’re either stupid or….. nah, you’re stupid. They knew what was coming. They just didn’t care.
Beck, born Bek David Campbell, has been the king of the oddballs and uber-cool malcontents since first bursting into the public consciousness in the early ‘90s.
Since forming the Queers in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1981, Joe Queer (aka Joe King), has found himself under attack from Democrats and Republicans. The left has taken offense to the band’s name, a word that has been used to attack gay people over the years. The right has taken the Queers, who will play Boulder Theater on July 12, at its word and attacked group members for being gay, which they’re not.
On Friday, July 7, the Open Media Foundation hosts its next monthly free Open Music Session event, which will spotlight music from Joseph Lamar and comedy from Caitie Hannan and Joshua Skillman.
R&B outfit En Vogue emerged in the 1990s, back when bands like TLC and Destiny’s Child were ruling the mainstream charts.
Thirty years in, Colorado blues-rock group Big Head Todd and the Monsters has established itself as one of the state’s more successful, if not persistent, musical exports.
Indie/roots band Dispatch might have its origins in Vermont and it might be based in Boston now, but singer, guitarist and percussionist Brad Corrigan is from right here in Denver.
The story of the band Boston is one of the strangest in rock, especially when it concerns a group that is, on the surface, so inoffensive. This is a band that formed in 1976, 41 years ago, and yet to-date has only released six studio albums. Much of that sluggishness with new material can be put down to some circumstances that vary between the cliched and the downright tragic.
