Rockit Academy—Empowering New Jersey’s Future Vinny Cecolini January 8, 2020 Buzz, Features Auditioning, especially for adolescents, can be terrifying, scarring, and demoralizing experiences. Being verbally poked and prodded by overly critical sour-faced judges can cause both established and aspiring...
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...
Motion City Soundtrack—Present and In the Moment Acacia Pyle January 1, 2020 Buzz, Features Motion City Soundtrack had a busy year in 2015. They released and toured for their sixth studio album, Panic Stations, a tight, synth heavy record showcasing lead singer and guitarist Justin Courtney Pierre’s ...
The Skatalites—55 Years and Still Dancing Arts Weekly January 1, 2020 Buzz, Features The Skatalites are reggae’s unsung heroes. Before they formed in 1964, the founding members were session musicians, and played on just about every song made in Jamaica for the previous 10 years. Members have p...
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...
Prong—Still Snappin’ Necks After All These Years Vinny Cecolini December 25, 2019 Buzz, Features It is 1991 and Prong’s singer-guitarist Tommy Victor, drummer Ted Parsons, and bassist Troy Gregory are glaring at me. We are inside the band’s dingy SoHo rehearsal space talking about their Prove You Wrong al...
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...
Silvertomb—Back From the Edge Vinny Cecolini December 18, 2019 Buzz, Features Many Americans would say that 2009 was a difficult year for them. The country was in the throes of a horrible recession and the resulting financial difficulties led some to embracing their inner demons—drugs, ...
The Top Albums of 2019 (According to AQ’s Staff) Arts Weekly December 18, 2019 Buzz, Features Dan Alleva—AQ Managing Editor Life of Agony—The Sound of Scars (Napalm Records)Starcrawler—Devour You (Rough Trade Records)Bad Religion—Age of Unreason (Epitaph)Sleater-Kinney—The Center Won’t Hold (Mom+Pop...
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...
