By Brian Wise. Revered Canadian singer songwriter Ron Sexsmith is on tour in Australia now with his terrific recent album under his belt. Call it serendipity but when I had to change my return flight [...]

By Brian Wise Old Settler’s Festival, Austin, Texas – Friday, April 17 – Sunday, April 19, 2026 Across this one weekend, Austin offered a reggae festival right in town, a huge country music event in [...]

Episode 19 of On The Record kicks off with one foot in the present and the other firmly planted on the long tail of rock history—touching on new Rolling Stones material before sliding into an [...]

Benjamin Tod’s Vengeance & Grace is out today via Thirty Tigers, arriving as a 20-track double album built around a clear structural concept: ten songs, each presented in two distinct versions. One set features full-band [...]

Tom Waits has today released a new single, “Boots on the Ground,” a collaboration with Massive Attack marking his first newly released recording since 2011’s album Bad as Me. The collaboration has been years in [...]