Leigh Celent: Castle Black—A New Riot Grrrl Rises Vinny Cecolini August 21, 2019 Buzz, Features In 2019, a year during which pop princess Ariana Grande headlined Lollapalooza, Castle Black frontperson Leigh Celent is a welcome breath of fresh indie-rock air. Celent and Castle Black have created a new sou...
Abbath—Approaching the Crossroads Nick Perkel July 24, 2019 Buzz, Features Abbath is a second wave black metal musician from Bergen, Norway that is well known for being a member of Immortal. In 2016, he released his first solo outing. Recently, we discussed how his new release, Outsr...
I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME—Dallon Weekes Heads Back to the Future Vinny Cecolini July 17, 2019 Buzz, Features Although sometimes truncated to iDKHOW, the full name of former Panic! At the Disco bassist Dallon Weekes’s new project is I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME. Yes, it is quite the mouthful, but those familiar w...
Lavender Disaster—The Chaos of Angels Arts Weekly July 10, 2019 Buzz, Features Lavender Disaster is the alternative rock band fronted by singer-songwriter Christine Bochicchio. When she was 17-years-old, Bochicchio attended Berklee College of Music—embarking on a musical journey that led...
Karen Bella—Music From Another Realm Arts Weekly July 10, 2019 Buzz, Features 2 Long Island singer-songwriter Karen Bella has been perfecting her craft seemingly forever. She began talking piano lessons at age nine, and by time she reached her mid-twenties, she was fluent in drums and gui...
Bonnaroo 2019 Arts Weekly July 3, 2019 Buzz, Features 6/14-16/19, Manchester TN At the 18th annual Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, an eclectic mix of jam bands, electronica, alt-country, plus the usual assortment of rockers and rappers joined forces for an...
Operators—Imaginary Past, Psychedelic Future Dan Alleva July 3, 2019 Buzz, Features For Dan Boeckner, the critically-acclaimed synth-pop group Operators has always been a means to push his songwriting beyond his indie-rock comfort zone as vocalist and guitarist for the band Wolf Parade. On th...
Interview with Helen L. Collen: The Art Of Capturing The Moment Bryan Reesman July 3, 2019 Buzz, Features Helen L. Collen has always found ways to express her creativity, from drawing and editing comic strips at age 10 to inventing special looks for people in film, television, and theater as an adult. Now she is d...
Interview with Rita Coolidge Michael Cavacini July 3, 2019 Buzz, Features 1 I recently interviewed Rita Coolidge, who has two Grammy awards to her name and decades of songs and albums along the way. We talked about her time touring with Joe Cocker, being in the studio with numerous le...
Steve Forbert: The Return of Romeo Clifford Meth June 19, 2019 Buzz, Features Steve Forbert has been delivering intimate, intricate, soul-satisfying songs and performances for four decades. But six months ago, the folk rocker from New Jersey (by way of Meridian, Mississippi) delivered h...
