Photo credit: Munachi Osegbu When Sparks co-founders Ron and Russell Mael were mulling over what to title their long-running art-rock project’s latest studio release, they managed to sum up the current state of affairs, both politically and culturally, with a single word and a pronounced exclamation mark—MAD! “There was an aggressive nature to quite a […]
photo credit: Jason Stoltzfus *** “The sound of Cosmic Country exists in the past and the future simultaneously. The present moment is a bridge between the tried-and-true values of the past that harmonize with the wonderous potential the future could hold for us. When you come see us in the present moment, I don’t want […]
Photo: Matthew Reamer *** “We like to have parameters,” Dan Horne says on determining the access point for Grateful Shred’s full-length debut LP, Might As Well. “For this recording, the parameters were songs that hadn’t been on a Dead studio album.” Released in June, the eight-track set presents a 45-minute retrospective of Grateful Dead concert […]
