Black Mountain: Brilliant Interpreters, or Blatant Plaigiarists?

Black Mountain is a Vancouver band garnering much attention from their 2005 eponymous debut and wowing audiences while opening up for Coldplay.  Borrowing from a lost generation of psychadelia, driving guitar-rock, and Pink Floyd-esque exploration, Black Mountain seems to be reviving sentiments of the past while opening a window to the future.  There are some out there, however, that are refusing […]

Get a Headstart on the Whigs’ “Mission Control”

The New Album, ‘Mission Control’ from indie fledglings The Whigs doesn’t come out until next week.  But they’ve graciously allowed you and me to listen to the entire streaming album at Rhapsody.com.  Sounds like: Foo Fighters if Dave Grohl was still grunge mixed with My Morning Jacket mixed with Pavement.

Radio Play: Will Topping the Charts Make You Bigger than Elvis?

By Sheena Metal 
Every true life rock ‘n’ roll television melodrama has the same scene: the unknown artist/band gives their freshly cut 45rpm single to the local disc jockey. He spins it on his top 40 radio show, and a star is born. This legend has been passed down through the generations of wannabe popstars like […]

History of the Electric Guitar

By Paul Smith
When most people think of electric guitars, they think of rock music. But electric guitars are more versatile than you’d think. You can find them in jazz, blues, country music, new-age compositions, and even contemporary classical pieces. Electric guitars are intimately associated with many famous musicians of the twentieth century, and may be […]

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