rawk Archive
15 Aug 2024
30 Days Out, Aug. 2024 #2: Joe Medwick, Soul Asylum, Lucky Strokes, Ghost-Note
A great locally-based artist, an overlooked indie-rock legend, and two widely-touring acts who love playing Asheville (and come here often). Those are the highlights of music in the next 30 […]
11 Aug 2024
Album Review: Dickey Betts – Live from the Lone Star Roadhouse
1988 was a tough time to be an Allman Brothers Band fan. The group had roared out of Jacksonville, Florida in 1969, with a two-guitar, two-drums attack (in addition to […]
10 Aug 2024
Album Review: Jupiter Cyclops – Age of the UFOnaut
It’s one thing to appreciate the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM). But it’s quite another to learn from the style, to take what’s most valuable about it and […]
08 Aug 2024
For the Beach Boys, the Summer Never Ends (Part 2 of 2)
Continued from Part One… Created with a briefly returning Brian Wilson, the group’s last new studio album of all-original music, That’s Why God Made the Radio, was released in 2012. […]
07 Aug 2024
For the Beach Boys, the Summer Never Ends (Part 1 of 2)
The Beach Boys came on the scene in 1961, straight outta Hawthorne, California. The group’s songs embodied the myth of a youthful and carefree Southern California existence, one filled with […]
05 Aug 2024
Take Five: Notable Tracks from the Flaming Lips
A modern-day psychedelic band from the unlikeliest place – Oklahoma – The Flaming Lips began as an outsider group with a small but dedicated cult following. They band broke through […]
04 Aug 2024
Album Review: The Embryos – Selling What You Want to Buy
When we last checked in with the Embryos, it was way back in the “before time.” 2019, actually. The group merited notice not once but twice in that year, having […]
01 Aug 2024
30 Days Out, Aug. 2024 #1: Jason Isbell, PAKT, Linda Lindas, Jlloyd MashUp
Yes, there’s a homegrown music festival this month that pretty much makes space for every local band. But you already know about that, so instead I present previews of four […]
30 Jul 2024
Album Review: Rome 56 – Paradise is Free
Heartland twang, creamy vocal harmonies, shimmering powerpop jangle and Byrdsy/Petty-ish Southern lilt: all of those winning qualities make themselves known with the first minute of “The Man Behind the Man […]
29 Jul 2024
Creed’s ‘Goosebump Moment’ of Writing ‘One Last Breath’
This feature appeared previously in SPIN. Launched in Tallahassee, Florida in 1994, Creed broke through in a big way with 1997’s My Own Prison, a debut album that would eventual […]