Month: April 2024

West Coast folk musician and songwriting powerhouse Madison Cunningham engages in some anger management.Click Here to Subscribe! Don’t Miss a Single EpisodeAlong with hosts Sean Watkins and Peter Harper, Cunningham, whose 2022 record Revealer won the Grammy for Best Folk Album, digs into the nature of artistry and truth-telling: What are the social and professional costs of telling it like it is, or simply sticking to your artistic guns instead of appealing to the masses? Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot got them dropped from their label—then it went on to become their most celebrated record. Who’s to say?Invoking her upbringing in the church and subsequent alienation from it, in part thanks to the ostracizing that came from questioning the rules, Cunningham leads the group on a writing session rooted in expressing anger and frustrating. “I write because I’m trying to hit something instead of someone,” Cunningham quips. What takes form is a folk-rock “rage song” about transmitters and receivers, about the incessant flow of information and the resonance, dissonance, and white noise that we’re all hooked up to. It’s also an expert lesson in subtlety and the expression of complex ideas: “Talk about the summer, passing the time/Your guess about Jesus is as good as mine,” Cunningham conjures on the verse.Click here to join our Patreon for early access to episodes, bonus content, Q&A sessions, and more!Visit BOL.education for a free sample lesson, or use code “Song” for a 10% discount on your first non-degree course.

ANIMALS AS LEADERS will celebrate the 10th anniversary of “The Joy Of Motion” by performing the album in full on a headlining North American tour this fall. Support on the trek will come from Australian prog guitar virtuoso Plini.
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In a new interview with El Planeta Del Rock, Evan Seinfeld was asked if there are any plans for the reunited classic lineup of BIOHAZARD to release new music in the not-too-distant future. The bassist/vocalist responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “We just begin writing. We’re working on o…

There was always an air of outsider contrariness to DÅÅTH. A death metal band with much more going on in their sound that any one strain of modern brutality. Guitarist Eyal Levi’s crew emerged from a flourishing US metal scene in the early ’00s and never really fit in anywhere. Neither in thrall to…

IN FLAMES and Nuclear Blast Records have announced exclusive anniversary vinyl re-issues of the band’s beloved classic albums “Lunar Strain” (30th anniversary), “Colony” (25th anniversary), “Soundtrack To Your Escape” (20th anniversary) and “Siren Charms” (10th anniversary), all of which have been o…