Mastodon: Stairway to the ‘Skye’ Gregg McQueen June 5, 2019 Features, Interviews Just when you thought they were out, Coheed and Cambria pulled them back in. After a busy tour schedule following the release of the 2017 album Emperor of Sand, the members of Mastodon were preparing to pac...
Circles Around the Sun: Simply Serendipitous Samantha Curreli May 29, 2019 Features, Interviews In 2015, four musicians came together to create six hours of filler music for the Grateful Dead’s 50th anniversary shows. No one in the seemingly temporary quartet believed that the background music would lead...
Collective Soul: Now Is the Time Vinny Cecolini May 29, 2019 Features, Interviews It’s been 25 years since Collective Soul front man E. Roland’s iconic “yeah” (from the band’s debut single “Shine”) was first heard over the radio airwaves. Since then, the Georgia quintet’s infectiously catch...
Life of Agony — The Sound of Scars: An AQ Exclusive In the Studio Report Dan Alleva May 22, 2019 Features, Interviews As Alan Robert came around the bend of the snowy Oregon road that was leading him to producer Sylvia Massy’s recording studio, a strange feeling came over the Life of Agony bassist. A feeling that pulled on him...
Rob Thomas: Out of the Pocket James Campion May 22, 2019 Features, Interviews Hair-tussled and all comfy in faded jeans and a loose-fitting gray waffle shirt, Rob Thomas sits with his dog Sammy perched on his lap and intently bobs his head as a playback of the first single off his upcomi...
Rodrigo y Gabriela: Meditations on the Here and Now Amanda Ferrante Batista May 15, 2019 Features, Interviews To be at peace with the moment, and settled in the now, is an existence most of us merely can strive for. Thus, the basis of music’s appeal—to captivate and facilitate mental escape, if only at the moment, for ...
Aly & AJ: Now Is As Good of a Time As Any Debra Kate Schafer May 15, 2019 Features, Interviews Growing up, very few teenybopper artists appealed to me. Maybe I was always just an old soul, but in my opinion, good music is always just that: good music. You had your boy bands and your girl groups—real ones...
Rob Halford Reflects on Fifty Years of Judas Priest Debra Kate Schafer May 15, 2019 Features, Interviews When Rob Halford, one of the world’s most notable voices in heavy metal says, “You and I may be seeing Wicked together,” you might be just a little bit confused and a little bit star struck. I had the privilege...
Tim Barr: Risk & Reward Nick Perkel May 8, 2019 Features, Interviews Tim Barr is an independent musician, as well as a firefighter, originally from New York City. Early highlights of his musical journey include being a live bassist during the “Lizzy Grant” era of Lana Del Rey’s ...
Black Label Society: True Sonic Brew Jessica Guica May 1, 2019 Features, Interviews 1 When Ozzy Osborne chose Zakk Wylde to be his right-hand axe man in 1987, one could wonder if he’d predicted how wildly multi-faceted his talented young player would become. Though he’d spend some twenty years w...
