All posts by Marc Quigley

I recently sat down with Larry Kennedy (@Larrybrick) of The Jellybricks. The Jellybricks are a great, high-energy pop-rock band from Pennsylvania. This year they released their fifth studio album, Suckers, on the New Jersey label Pop Detective. The band has appeared on compilation CDs with the likes of The Smithereens, The Posies, Fountains of Wayne [...]

My latest musical fixation is a young lady by the name of Cheyenne Marie Mize from Louisville, Kentucky. Cheyennes first release Before Lately is a beautiful collection of melancholy folk tunes with the occasional tinge of country and bluegrass. Her voice has an intimate breathiness sometimes reminiscent of Fiona Apple while being more reserved and classy. [...]

The long running Lollapalooza music festival had it’s first evacuation since it began in 1991. The city of Chicago’s Emergency Management, as well as promoter C3 were carefully watching the weather and made the decision to evacuate while the skies were still clear. Officials made the announcements and asked concert goers to leave Grant Park [...]

Tickets for the 11th annual Download Festival go on sale a mere five days after the end of this years event. On Friday, June 15th at 9am BST a limited number of early-bird tickets will go on sale for the concert which is set for June 14-16 2013 at it’s home in Donington Park, UK. Not [...]

The club Hilly founded in 1973 was intended as a venue for country, bluegrass and blues music but after he found it hard to fill up the schedule with such bands he opened the door to local musicians of all genres. As a consequence CBGB became the geyser from which erupted the american punk scene. [...]

Amingo recently sat down with guitarist Chris Haskett for a Skype video-chat — us in Annapolis, MD and him in Nijmegen, Netherlands. Chris is best known for his role in the iconic post-hardcore group Rollins Band. His hard-driving, eclectic guitar riffs were a perfect counterpoint to singer Henry Rollins’ scolding vocals. The quartet came to [...]

Recording a record can be a costly endeavor. Finding a studio that can create a great sounding product is easier and cheaper than ever but long studio hours and hiring additional musicians can add up. This expense can stop some artists from putting out music that fans may be waiting for. Even bands with multiple [...]

If you love live music you should do yourself a favor and download the Bandsintown app. It’s a pretty slick app that scans your music library or Pandora and Last.fm and looks for live shows in your area by artists in your playlists. You can track specific artists or let the app suggest artists based [...]

Here are a few of our favorite albums from 2011… The Dears – Degeneration Street I’ve been a moderate fan of the Dears for a while but they never really grabbed me until this album. Lots of great tracks – in particular Blood really gets me going. Tiny Man is quite excellent also. Peter, Bjorn [...]

I just came across this great interview with John Grady from Crush Management, Nashville. Ian Rogers, CEO of Topspin, talks to John about his history in the music industry, the current state of the business and on developing young artists. Crush Management represents the likes of Fall Out Boy, Train, Panic at the Disco, Wavves [...]