If the best way to get to see a country is from the back of a motorcycle, Rich Aucoin should be intimately familiar with a good swath of American. Aucoin has famously toured by bicycle, giving him ample opportunity to take in the country at the ground level and enough experience to compose a song for each of the 12 states he pedalled through for his next album.
Who hasn’t been on one end or another of a late-night text? You’re just minding your own business and then a few drinks later you’re making plans to meet up with your ex. After all, the heart wants what the heart wants and your brain isn’t always there to keep it in check, which is, more or less, the theme of Mallory Johnson’s new video, “Drunk Mind, Sober Heart.” Continue reading Music Video: Mallory Johnson Revisits Your Late Night Misadventures on ‘Drunk Mind, Sober Heart’→
If it’s taken you this long to fully digest Joel Plaskett’s latest offering, you’d be excused. 44 is Plaskett’s most ambitious project to date, a collection of four full albums released just before his 45th birthday – Carried Away, Just Passing Through, If There’s Another Road, and The Window Inn. The project serves as a spiritual successor to Three, a similar release by Plaskett in 2009 which consisted of three albums. Continue reading New Music: Joel Plaskett Releases Four-Album Mega Project with ’44’→
Quelle surprise! The end of the world falls into our laps and a punk-rock band has just the anti-capitalist anthem for the occasion. Halifax’s Like A Motorcycle were keeping their latest single “Wide Awake” in their back pocket, waiting for the right moment to unleash their careers in the new economy as Zoom background models. Continue reading Single: Like A Motorcycle Question the Matrix on ‘Wide Awake’→
