Monthly Archive: December 2016

★★★½ 3 and half star review of JAMES LEG “Blood On The Keys” from TEAMROCK/CLASSIC ROCK

Blessed with the kind of subterranean growl that almost makes Tom Waits sound like a choirboy, former Black Diamond Heavies singer and keyboardist James Leg – the nom de plume of John Wesley Myers – has done much to pull the blues away from any number of pub bores and six-string technicians who regularly sanitise […]

KING MUD announces Winter European dates

KING MUD Winter European Tour Dates : February 8 @ DB’s — Utrecht, NL February 9 @ Le Kalif — Rouen, FR February 10 @ Le Galion — Lorient, FR February 11 @ La Grange à Musique — Creil, FR February 12 @ Le Sucre — Lyon, FR February 13 @ Café De Swerver — […]

NO DEPRESSION premieres MARK PORKCHOP HOLDER’S “My Black Name”

If the Rolling Stones camped with Howlin’ Wolf and Billy Gibbons on trucker speed for the weekend with a fuzz pedal, this would be its precious procreation. “My Black Name” is a charged up garage blues littered with succulent slide licks and tasty crunch, battling the demons that haunt a man’s reputation with war eyes […]

Awesome SULFUR CITY review from the New York Music Daily

Slashing, Fearlessly Populist Classic Detroit-Style Rock from Sulfur City Sulfur City evoke the hard-charging, uncompromising Murder City garage-punk intensity of Radio Birdman and Sonic’s Rendezvous Band, with elements of retro soul, psychedelia, a little funk and a fearlessly populist political sensibility. But they’re not from Detroit or Australia: they hail from Sudbury, in northeast Ontario. […]