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The last time Iggy Pop released an album (2016’s Post Pop Depression), it was promoted as the punk rock godfather’s last studio album. After nearly fifty years of recording, performing, and touring, Iggy was throwing in the towel and calling it a career. So the context of the previous album …

The Goo Goo Dolls have been a consistent player in the pop rock game since their formation in 1986. Their 1998 single “Iris” catapulted the band into the mainstream, and alternative rock radio will play that song till the end of time. Unfortunately, twelve albums into their career, Johnny Rzeznik …

Sweet and sour; the balance of these two conflicting flavors are what Boston alternative rock legends Pixies have been perfecting since frontman Black Francis and guitarist Joey Santiago formed the band back in 1986. The band’s blend of metal, punk, and pop resulted in the band becoming one of the …

The Nothing is Korn’s newest album. It’s their 13th album and crazy enough, was released on Friday, September 13th. The title describes the setting where Jonathan wrote this album. He lost his wife August of 2018. The Nothing is an emotional, deep, and what the grieving process sounds like after somebody …

  The ninth studio release from UK four piece Diesel Park West, Let It Melt, opens with the title song. It has a rollicking Rolling Stones-like groove and biting lyrics guitarist, singer, and songwriter John Butler delivers with equal parts sneer and swagger. Butler and second guitarist Rich Barton is a …

  Ethereal strings and angelic vocal harmonies dance in exquisite synchronicity before devolving into a chaotic cyclone of atonal noise in Matthew Squires’ “The Sentinel,” but where some would deem his mashup of lo-fi grit and minimalist melodies as too experimental for mainstream consumption, others (myself included) haven’t been able …

Imagine that you were able to break out of your country’s music scene and able to spread your music across seas around the world. Imagine your debut EP gaining success and starting a fanbase. Imagine then releasing your full-length album. This is all the scenario for the Australian band, The …

John 5 (aka John Lowery) has been around the block a few times, from touring with cock-rock legend David Lee Roth to playing with late ’90s hard rock kings Marylin Manson and Rob Zombie. John 5 has been a consistent player in the hard rock scene for the past two …

Richard Lynch is one of those cases of musicians that truly embody the type of music that they play and believe in what they sing about, often delivering great albums and great performances. A few months ago, the Ohio-based Country musician released Think I’ll Carry It On, which I find …

Scorching overdrive and old fashioned honky tonk swing are ready and waiting to greet anyone who presses play on Story Book Road’s The Window of Your Soul – a record which won the acclaimed Houston country crossover crew the praise of critics and fans around the nation last year – and its …

A melody as bright as the sun. A groove that matches its warmth. A soft sway that isn’t all that different from a cool summer breeze. If there’s a jazz single that captures the essence of the season this July, it’s unquestionably Integriti Reeves’ “Eu Vim Da Bahia,” one of …

URL: http://www.latresa.com/ In their third and most recently released album, The Blood and the River, LaTresa & the Signal take gospel-tinged bluegrass music in an excitingly experimental direction, with tracks like “When I Cross the River” and “Lazarus” dipping the band’s pen in country, Americana and western folk influences to …