As you might have heard, remastered copies of the Beatles catalog are coming out today. I say this sarcastically knowing that some of you are swinging the proverbial cat around and around in the air, trying to miss the global coverage of this event, and you….just…CAN’T miss it! The Beatles have nabbed the front cover […]
Category: New Releases
New Music: Saintseneca
Got this in email and as one that leans hard towards good folk/alt-country/Americana stuff, I had to share it with the ATV nation. I’m not sure if there is a “nation,” but I’m going with it. Saintseneca is a folk band from Columbus, Ohio, but “folk” doesn’t capture the passion, potential and joy in their […]
New Music: Vinyl Candy
For those of you that enjoy power pop, you’ll know that we are in a good position to constantly discover great bands in the genre, thanks to resources like Not Lame Records, and similar websites, fanzines, etc. Some of them make a good amount of noise, Sugarbomb for example. You might remember hearing this song […]
Michael McDermott – Hey La Hey
“Who is Michael McDermott? You’ve got a lot of albums by him on your Ipod.” I get this question a lot for several groups/artists, and McDermott is near the top of that list. Who is Michael McDermott? If you know him at all, it’s probably because of this song: McDermott released 620 W. Surf, his […]
New sophomore release available now from Jets Overhead – Grab your seat!
If you’re like us, you might have been rocking so hard this summer, that you could have missed the news that Victoria, BC quintet Jets Overhead released their second full-length, No Nations, on June 23 via Vapor Records (Neil Young’s label, home of Everest, etc.) Sure, it was an innocent mistake, but it is one […]
Bill Champlin plans solo tour this fall!
“He’s known the world over as the soulful singer/keyboardist of the iconic jazz-pop band Chicago. His featured spots on the hits “Look Away” and “Hard Habit to Break” are among his mainstream highlights. But Bill Champlin’s defining work with the Sons of Champlin and as a songwriter put him on the musical map long before […]
Win Stuff: Twisted Sister – Stay Hungry 25th Anniversary
Hello again, my little rabble rousers! Today, we’re going to travel back 25 years to the time when Twisted Sister released a landmark slab of music called Stay Hungry. You own it. You’ve owned it. You probably even owned it in multiple formats. You bought the t-shirt, and you went to the concert. The album […]
Incubus and others are collecting the hits via new retrospective packages
If your band spent the 90s and 00s kicking out the rock jams, now might be a good time to put out one of those career spanning retrospective thingamabob kinda things. As we sit on the tailgate looking at the end of the 00s, Incubus have done just that with the release of their new […]
Old 97s frontman Rhett Miller releases new solo CD via Shout! Factory
Rhett Miller is a busy guy. Just looking at the promotional blitz for his brand new self-titled solo album (out today via Shout! Factory) would make you tired. But then you add in Miller’s main duties as frontman for alt-country rockers The Old 97s, and you’ve got a good ol’ fashioned recipe for exhaustion for […]
The Very Best of Don Henley – In Stores June 16th
How big of a Don Henley fan am I? Well, there was that time a few years ago in 2005 that I drove 3+ hours to Detroit to see Henley, on tour that summer for a limited run of dates with Stevie Nicks. I bought a ticket for 100 bucks in the parking lot, watched […]