Forever a music lover who has been everything from musician to promoter to manager to booking agent to publicist to blogger to record label founder to a degree from Berklee College of Music in Music Business.
Christian Parker and Patrick Cleary have built something rare with their American Cosmic Revival. It is a series that treats the architects of Cosmic American Music as collaborators instead of ghosts. American Cosmic Revival Vol. 2: Miles From Nowhere, the second installment, arrived August 21, 2026 through Edgewater Music Group. It widens the lens beyond […]
What happens when a lullaby and a warning sound exactly the same? Carrington MacDuffie spends Sugar Drip answering that question, and the answer keeps shifting depending on which track is playing. MacDuffie has built an unusually layered career on the way to this record. A published poet and an award-winning narrator of over 250 audiobooks, […]
There are few places in New York City better suited for a breezy summer concert than The Rooftop at Pier 17. On August 19, 2026, the venue hosted Max McNown’s stop on The Summer Vacation Tour. The roof was packed with about 3000 fans, offering the perfect scale for a rising name in the indie-folk […]
What does a talented guitarist do after 25 years of making other artists sound great? Ricky Z. answers that question on his sophomore solo album, Back To The Truth. The answer is: finally take the spotlight himself with some amazing session players supporting him.. Ricky Z. (born Ricky Zahariades) has spent decades as one of […]
Every band hits the same wall eventually. The record’s mixed, mastered, and ready to go. But now you need album cover art that doesn’t look like it took five minutes in Canva or, worse, like it came out of an AI image generator. Price out a custom illustrator, though, and a good one can run […]
Some music is meant to entertain. Our recent find EPTA7 seems more interested in getting inside your head. The Irish-Italian industrial metal and dark alternative project creates a cinematic world filled with paranoia, trauma, ghosts, strange creatures, and distorted realities. We caught up with the band to talk about their return, the unsettling universe behind Here […]
Can an album make you think and move your feet at the same time? Our new friends NEYBAS pulls that off across all of Hello, Earth, their sixth full-length record. The Connecticut-based Trad Rock Jam band that’s been a fixture in the Northeast for decades. Their sound blends Americana warmth with the danceable energy of […]
What happens when seduction and destruction ride in the same car? The R Train Band answers that question with “Mariah,” a song built around a vixen who takes no prisoners and leaves the wreckage to everyone else. The Brooklyn-born, now South Florida-based power trio is made up of guitarist and vocalist Jeffrey Black, bassist Blackjack, […]
