The history of slow jams wasn’t written by a single player, but instead by a collection of artists spanning genres, backgrounds and generations of pop, each of them bearing but one commonality with the others – a desire to impart vivid emotionality to the audience with rhythm, rhyme and robust …
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Underground rock has amassed hope in Barb Wire Dolls, an emerging Greek quintet signed by the late great Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead. What solidifies the band’s legacy today is a tribute in music video form, that of their single “Fade Away” (off Rub My Mind). Its release coincides with the …
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“one of rock ‘n’ roll’s lifelong major players”—Rolling Stone Peter Frampton will resume his acclaimed “Peter Frampton Raw: An Acoustic Tour” with more dates in 2017. Gordon Kennedy, Frampton’s longtime collaborator and co-producer of his Grammy Award-winning album Fingerprints, will join him again for the March and April dates alongside …
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Yesterday, Virginia Beach quintet Sunndrug released their debut album, Exit Wounds. Fans may recognize three of the band’s personnel—Jimmy Reeves, Chris Raines and Matt Beck—all of whom originated in Spitfire, a metalcore outfit popular at the start of the millennium. Sunndrug, by contrast, is a less stringent rock variant, bolstering …
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Sunndrug was conceptualized by the partnership of metalcore veterans Jimmy Reeves and Chris Raines. Backed by an additional 3-man personnel (Junior Favela, Clint Kesler, Matt Beck), their material rings interestingly and is wholly unexpected. For reference, I wasn’t much a fan of its members’ previous outings, Spitfire and Norma Jean, …
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