Sweet Apple, a new collaboration between J. Mascis and a couple of members of Cobra Verde, will release their debut album in April. The band includes Dinosaur Jr’s Mascis, Cobra Verde’s Tim Parnin and ...
Former Screaming Trees frontman, Queens of the Stone Age member and all-around alternative rock renaissance man Mark Lanegan recently put out his newest solo album, Phantom Radio, this third in three ...
Sweet Apple is a new group that features J. Mascis (drums/guitar/vocals), Cobra Verde‘s Tim Parnin (guitar) and John Petkovic (vocals/guitar), and Witch‘s Dave Sweetapple (bass/vocals). Their debut ...
Looking for an offbeat energy drink from right here in the Midwest? How about a version made with green coffee? Jarrett Mitchell owns Wake Up Iowa Coffee, a small-batch, fair-trade organic coffee ...
“TO ME,” ANNOUNCED Cobra Verde’s John Petkovic in 1999, during an interview I conducted with him just prior to the release of the Cleveland band’s third album, Nightlife, “‘rock star’ means ‘poet with ...
“Teenage Kicks” was John Peel’s favorite song for more than 25 years, and when the legendary BBC DJ died last fall it was played at his funeral–he’d even said he wanted the line “Teenage dreams, so ...
But together, the two Akron-born musicians have come up with the new duo/side project Sad Planets, and on Friday, released their first album, appropriately enough called “Akron, Ohio.” It’s an unusual ...
Glam-rock has a strange legacy in America. Primarily a British phenomenon, albeit one with strong American ties and influences, glam has in this decade been enthusiastically picked up and altered in ...