6/8/2010
Of all the groups that have been the pretender to the jam-band throne abdicated by the beloved Grateful Dead when Jerry Garcia died in 1995, Widespread Panic most deserves it. The Georgia jammers have …
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6/1/2010
Driven by a couple of former Raccoons, guitarist Toby Leaman and drummer Scott McMicken, Philadelphia quirk-rockers Dr. Dog belie their rap-sounding moniker with a buoyant raft of experimental, '60s-le …
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6/1/2010
Here we rewind to Dr. Dog's charmingly rough-edged early years with self-released sophomore album Toothbrush (2002) - beneath the percussive kitchen sink clatter of "Adeline," there's evidently …
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6/1/2010
Crossover occurs in music all the time, be it a hip-hop tune with pop potential or a hard-rocking band with a ballad that brings them a bigger audience. But combining the elemental power of rock and th …
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6/1/2010
Get set for a musical magic trick, as the great divide between the pop and classical worlds vanishes into thin air when the Vitamin String Quartet gets its axes out. If Billy Joel had realized the baro …
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6/1/2010
It's fitting that Portishead got signed on the strength of To Kill a Dead Man - a '60s-inspired spy movie they shot, scored, and starred in - rather than a run-of-the-mill demo. After all, the g …
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6/1/2010
More than just a simple one-night-only souvenir, the Philharmonic-backed Roseland, NYC Live reveals Portishead at the height of their powers, fully realizing the widescreen vision of such trip-h …
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6/1/2010
As much as we love Scott Weiland's new lizard king role in Velvet Revolver, it takes only an evening with Stone Temple Pilots' five very different albums to appreciate (and desperately miss) his old gi …
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6/1/2010
Demon-plagued rock singers certainly aren't a new phenomenon, yet few '90s frontmen carried a mystique as genuine and engrossing as that of Stone Temple Pilots' Scott Weiland. Is it any wonder why we s …
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