The gold standard of dads has to be Walt Johnsen, the man after whom Walt’s Bar, a pinball, beer, and hotdog joint in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, is named. His son Jeff, who founded and owns the bar with brother Brad, tells it: “He’s one of those fix-anything guys, so he’d always be bringing home…
Being in a band takes work. It’s hard enough to manage conflicting schedules when all band members reside in the same city, but the three women who make up the heavy Ukrainian outfit Death Pill don’t even live on the same continent. “We’re a very well-organized band,” says drummer Anastasiia Khomenko, only half-joking. Khomenko joined…
I read Mo Troper before I heard him. An essay of his, published in some obscure corner of the internet, in which he ambitiously attempted to define his great passion, power pop, as well as explain his curious ambivalence to it. The guy could write, I thought, and his enthusiasm for the genre was obvious…
The first trailer has emerged from Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, a feature film chronicle of Bruce Springsteen making his classic 1982 album Nebraska. The Boss is portrayed by The Bear star Jeremy Allen White in a movie directed by Crazy Heart‘s Scott Cooper and based on Warren Zanes’ book of the same name. It will be released Oct. 24 by…
Much like the origins of his unique stage name, musician Jerskin Fendrix is a creature of distortion. As the title of his second studio album implies, Once Upon A Time in Shropshire is a cathartic homage to his eclectic formation as a musician, an odd odyssey through the corridors of his past, distilling precious memories…
Russell Simmons says he was “shocked” to learn T La Rock and Jazzy Jay’s 1984 single “It’s Yours” was produced by Rick Rubin, a white Jewish kid attending college at New York University and making music from his Weinstein Hall dorm room. Simmons, who had already established Rush Management by the early ’80s, was well…
Patrick Wolf had a moment back in 2007. It was a time when Pitchfork had the power to make or break a band, and the publication awarded The Magic Position, the erstwhile wunderkind’s third LP, the much-vaunted Best New Music designation. Never mind that Wolf already had plenty of accolades in his native U.K. and…
John C. Reilly inhabits the spirit of the title character of Jack White’s “Archbishop Harold Holmes” in a new video for the song directed by Gilbert Trejo. Set in a southern church replete with a glowing neon cross, the clip finds Reilly, as Holmes, passionately channelling the Lord to a handful of congregants before the…
Though the Cure is not remix-averse, they don’t seem to give over every single song to others like some of their contemporaries do. Some fans consider Mixed Up—their 1990 collection of remixes, rare tracks, and a new song (“Never Enough”)—a proper entry in the band’s discography. Twenty-eight years later, the band released Torn Down on…
For San Francisco-born artist Danny Lannon, the creative force behind Vacances, music has never been just about sound — it’s about crafting a feeling, a world, a visual and emotional language people can step into. After fronting electro-pop band The Frail and performing alongside acts like Justice, Hot Chip, and TV on the Radio, Lannon…
