more by Christopher John Treacy
[JAZZ FUSION] While Genesis was experiencing increasingly tense relations with lead singer Peter Gabriel, drummer Phil Collins got busy with Brand X, a London-based jazz fusion band featuring sometimes-Eno bassist Percy Jones, that’d originally called him in to potentially
[COUNTRY] Yet another artist saved from the clutches of total obscurity by the Americana fold, Austin-based Slaid Cleaves is an under-appreciated gem.
[EMO] On the heels of removing former Saosin guitarist Justin Shekoski from the band – reinforced by then filing a restraining order due to some strange threats he’d made since — 2018 got off to a strange start for post-hardcore outfit The Used.
[ROCK] Naming your band after Marlon Brando’s biker gang from the 1953 film, The Wild One, casts a leathery, engine-revving tone that has stayed the duration for California’s Black Rebel Motorcycle Club— and there’s nothing wrong with that.
[ROCK] It’s been a long hard ride for Dean and Robert DeLeo and Eric Kretz—the musical core of Stone Temple Pilots.
[INDIE] It’s early yet to be making statements about the best things that happened in 2018, but Sunflower Bean’s sophomore set, Twentytwo in Blue, is liable to show up on some year-end lists.
[POP] Age 23 may seem like a very young age to already be a major label refugee, but things happen fast in the world of digital music and social media. In 2016, after seven EPs and one full length release for Universal, Scottish lass Nina Nesbitt broke off to do her own thing....
[ROCK] At 51, John Popper is a young rock survivor.
[ROCK] Popa Chubby A.K.A. Ted Horowitz makes blues with a sense of humorous swagger, as his stage name suggests. After scoring a mid-1990’s deal with Sony/Okeh.
[INDIE] When Minus the Bear released their third full length, Planet of Ice, in 2007, reactions were mixed – as they have been, pretty much, with everything they’ve released since turning the corner from their prog-absurdist early work to something a bit moodier an