One eskimO, a four-piece band from London, is impossible to categorize (if you like to do that sort of thing with your music, and let’s face it, most of us do). What started as an indie rock/shoegaze sorta venture is now leaping over boundaries and even dipping into – gasp! – Top 40 radio territory. … Read more
Anna Rose may like to escape every now and then, but singing and writing songs has always been in her blood. Once the 25-year-old from Manhattan picked up the guitar, it’s always been in her life: with her on subways, used heavily in her songs she records and performs. Rose, it seems, knows what makes her … Read more
ALL PHOTOS BY JASON GONULSEN There would be no final show. No announcement on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. No frantic search for tickets for admission to see the King of Rock n Roll perform in a basement called the Duck Room at Blueberry Hill in St. Louis, capacity 340. Sometimes, greatness simply ends without giving … Read more
For our first 10 to Spin playlist of 2013, we turn to 17-year-old guitarist Jack Skuller, who, judging from the songs he selected, has fine taste indeed. America’s youth, baby! Represented right here on SiC. Find Jack Skuller on Facebook here. Chuck Berry – Maybelline With his guitar, Chuck took the attitude of the blues … Read more
HOLY SHIT this is good. I’ve seen Chuck Berry eight times, Neil Young nineteen times…and this sort of electric insanity is what I recall at each show. But folks, this is not Berry or Young. This is Gary freaking Clark Jr. And although I’m not sure what universe he came to us from, you will … Read more
It took a while for New York rockers The Postelles to release their self-titled debut album, but they’ve found ways to keep busy over the last few years. The quartet–Daniel Balk (lead vocals/rhythm guitar), David Dargahi (vocals/lead guitar), John Speyer (bass), and Billy Cadden (percussion)–has toured with Kings of Leon, Vampire Weekend, and Interpol, and … Read more