Umphrey’s McGee—Still Taking Chances Rob Duguay January 15, 2020 Features, Interviews For over 20 years, Umphrey’s McGee has been one of the top acts in the jam band community. The sextet of guitarist and vocalist Brendan Bayliss, keyboardist and vocalist Joel Cummins, bassist Ryan Stasik, perc...
Hittin’ the Road with Marcus King Dan Alleva January 8, 2020 Features, Interviews Marcus King, the guitar phenom and rising star from South Carolina, has been making a name for himself ever since he formed his primary group, The Marcus King Band, in 2013. After sharing the stage with the li...
We Banjo 3—Music Is Our Home Katherine Yeske Taylor January 1, 2020 Features, Interviews Quite frankly, finding out that a band contains not one, not two, but three banjo players seems likely to make many potential listeners run the other way. But that’s exactly the configuration within We Banjo 3...
Achieving Planetary Consciousness Through Art—An Interview with Jaz Coleman of Killing Joke Katherine Yeske Taylor December 25, 2019 Features, Interviews In a conference room in the Spinefarm Records headquarters inside the Universal Music Building in Manhattan, Killing Joke frontman Jaz Coleman is poking at a plate of sushi. It’s an incongruous sight: legendar...
Album of the Year 2019: Life of Agony—The Sound of Scars Dan Alleva December 18, 2019 Features, Interviews On October 11, seminal alt-metal act Life of Agony released their sixth album, The Sound of Scars (Napalm Records)—which has been named The Aquarian’s official “Album of the Year” for 2019. The release date he...
Come On and Celebrate the Holidays with Taking Back Sunday Vinny Cecolini December 11, 2019 Features, Interviews It’s hard to believe that it has been 20 years since Taking Back Sunday formed in Amityville, Long Island, dominated the New York City emo scene, and then quickly became an international sensation. Hampered du...
Steve Earle—Deep in the Community Katherine Yeske Taylor December 4, 2019 Features, Interviews “Things have been a little nuts recently,” Steve Earle says, calling from his home in New York City’s Greenwich Village neighborhood. “We lost our bass player in the last several days. That put an already busy...
Twin Temple—Runnin’ with the Devil Dan Alleva November 27, 2019 Features, Interviews From Robert Johnson to Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, from Jimmy Page to Slayer, Satan has always been a rock ‘n’ roller, and his new favorite band—and soon to be yours—is undoubtedly Twin Temple. The Los Angeles husb...
Juliana Hatfield Has Got You Covered Dan Alleva November 27, 2019 Features, Interviews Juliana Hatfield, the prolific singer-songwriter from Boston, has just released her second collection of cover songs on her latest LP, Juliana Hatfield Sings The Police. Hatfield released her seventeenth album...
The Wizards of Winter—’Tis the Season Arts Weekly November 22, 2019 Features, Interviews 1 The audience explodes with excitement as the theater darkens. Lights illuminate the stage as the large ensemble of musicians and vocalists begin to perform. Assorted video screens come to life and the awestruc...
