Spencer Berger has that kind of look that makes you wonder where you’ve seen him before. His thick brows, kind blue eyes, slim face, and wily smile are the perfect composite of a frontman you could swear you just saw on the cover of a magazine, or maybe an actor in a movie you can’t […]
Maintaining an air of mystery in our all-access digital world is nothing short of an anomaly. But staying anonymous? That’s a miracle. Yet somehow, Ado has done so for the past five years, ever since debuting with her first viral hit “Usseewa” in 2020. Her newest single “Magic” comes out on Halloween. What we know […]
Name James Atkin Best known for Singer for the band EMF. Current city Yorkshire Dales, U.K. Really want to be in Back in the tour van visiting a new town or city every day. Excited about The new EMF releases and heading back to the U.S. for Spring tours. My current music collection has a lot of The wife jokes that I struggle to discover […]
Combing under the 30-foot-high marble dome encasing Jimi Hendrix’s grave, ghost hunter Ken Arnold scans AM/FM radio frequencies with his SB11 Spirit Box. Nothing but static fizzles from the device speaker. No signs of Jimi arise. No purple or purple adjacent haze of violet or boysenberry. No one ’scusing themselves to kiss the sky. No […]
What happens when artists, celebrities, industry tycoons, and a swarm of dance music aficionados fly into Ibiza to celebrate DJ, producer and cultural curator Seth Troxler’s 40th birthday? According to many, the event of the decade – and according to Seth’s long time friend Bill Patrick, absolute chaos. The nonstop run of festivities started with […]
“‘Danny, we need a gimmick. Wear a gas mask.’” Daniel Ash is recalling his first paid gig as a young musician with a band called MI5. It was at Glasgow Rangers Supporters Club in Corby, an industrial town in Northamptonshire, where Ash is from, nearly two hours from London. Aside from its (obvious) Scottish pride, […]
Tortoise has done a lot in their 30+ years as a band. In the ‘90s, they became standard-bearers of the Chicago scene, their unusual instrumentation (three percussionists, two bassists) and eclectic palette (jazz, dub, EDM, prog) helping define a major wing of the instrumental post-rock genre. Their expansive 1998 album, TNT, with its cover doodle […]
Name Slim Jim Phantom Best known for Drummer for the Stray Cats, DJ “Little Steven’s Underground Garage,” Owner of the Cat Club at 8911 Sunset Blvd., and providing a place to play for 5,000 bands you’ve never heard of. Current City Los Angeles, CA. Really want to be in Jamaica At Goldeneye with my beautiful and rocking wife Jennie Vee. […]
"A bridge between the seen and unseen." Ayahuasca is brewed. (Photo by: Giulio Paletta/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) “Music can heal, if life is put into it.” Those are the words of a holy man named Inayat Khan, plucked from his treatise, The Mysticism of Sound and Music. A renowned musicologist, philosopher and […]
As I greet Rob Thomas on our video call, he asks me if I’m getting any of “the weather” that they’re experiencing in the New York City area, where he lives. Unaware of the torrential storms that were, at the time of our call, getting ready to pound his region and leaving it in a […]