Losing a parent is a devastating experience. Nothing can prepare you for it. The infinite range of conflicting emotions that come flooding in, just afterward is almost too numerous to fully account for. Grief, of course. Acute, unbearable grief. But also emptiness, anger, nostalgia, remorse, and so many others. The gravity of that kind of […]
Every member of Korn tells me, individually, that they wanted to “think outside the box” for the rollout of their 14th album Requiem – in those exact words. To their credit, they know that a band nearly 30 years into their career merely saying “we wanted to think about the box” sounds like they’re checking […]
Aftershock, the West Coast’s biggest rock festival, will return on October 6-9, 2022 at Discovery Park in Sacramento. The festival will be its biggest to date, spanning four entire days, with four stages, and over 90 bands. Tickets are now on sale on the Aftershock website here. [embedded content][embedded content] In 2021, the festival set […]
The Notorious B.I.G. (a.k.a. Christopher Wallace) would have celebrated his 50th birthday this May. Now, in honor of him turning the big 5-0, Wallace’s estate, his former label Bad Boy, Rhino, and Atlantic Records will collaborate on a year-long campaign in celebration of this life. The Sky’s The Limit: A Year Celebrating The Legacy of […]
Why care? It sounds harsh, but it is valid to ask. Why ought we care about the wellbeing of others outside of ourselves? During the past couple of years, navigating and learning your world as it was in lockdown, there was little brain space to consider how a public health crisis impacted other age groups. […]
O.N.E. The Duo could’ve taken the easy way into the music biz. The mother-daughter duo of Tekitha Washington and Prana Supreme Diggs was already hip-hop royalty — as in Prana’s father is RZA, while Washington (known professionally by only her first name) can be heard on a number of Wu-Tang Clan group and solo tracks […]
Florence Welch has finally returned! In her first proper release since 2018 (she last released a song for the Cruella film in 2021 and an outtake in 2020), Florence + the Machine unveiled “King” on Wednesday. [embedded content][embedded content] The “King” video was directed by Autumn de Wilde. The song reflects on Florence Welch’s femininity […]
For their inaugural Spotify Singles recording, Coldplay covered one of rap’s and one of pop’s biggest stars. On Side A, the band fronted by Chris Martin tackled an acoustic rendition of “Let Somebody Go,” which is their current single with Selena Gomez. “I have always loved Selena’s voice and when ‘Let Somebody Go’ arrived it […]
In February 2020, Sasami Ashworth packed her acoustic guitar and headed to a songwriter’s retreat in Washington state. The classically-trained musician thought she would return with Joni Mitchell-esque material. The night before the retreat, however, Ashworth found herself in a Los Angeles dive bar where sludge metal band Barishi was performing. As the cymbals and […]
“I never consciously wanted it; it always just was my life!” Debbie Gibson says, of her life in music. “My parents bought a piano before they bought a couch, and I was enamored with it from day one. I always loved performing, doing theater, and talent shows but when I started writing and producing my […]