BY MIKE METTLER – FEBRUARY 1, 2018
Stone Temple Pilots have announced a March 16, 2018 release date for their highly anticipated new self-titled album, Stone Temple Pilots, via Atlantic/Rhino. This effort also marks the band’s first album with their new lead singer, Jeff Gutt.
STP guitarist Dean DeLeo says, “We are thrilled about what lies ahead. […]
BY MIKE METTLER – OCTOBER 16, 2017
Artists who have world-renowned and critically acclaimed musicians as parents have an especially hard time forging their own individualized creative identities. This is especially true if your father happens to be, say, the late George Harrison of The Beatles.
Yet his son Dhani Harrison has taken it all in stride, by both […]
BY MIKE METTLER – OCTOBER 2, 2017
For artists conditioned to labor over their studio recording for weeks and even months upon end, the thought of recording new music live and in real time, and then getting it immediately into the hands of the listening public without delay, can be quite the liberating experience.
And that’s […]
BY MIKE METTLER – SEPTEMBER 24, 2017
If there’s one thing you can predict about the iconoclastic avant-guitarist Kaki King, it’s that the only thing you expect her to do next is that she’ll do the unexpected, every time.
Over in my Audiophile column on Digital Trends, Kaki and I discuss her restless creative nature, including the philosophy […]
BY MIKE METTLER – SEPTEMBER 4, 2017
Steely Dan co-founder Walter Becker passed away at age 67 on September 3, 2017, leaving behind a hi-res-oriented recorded legacy virtually unmatched by any other contemporary recording artist. As the saying goes, we may never see/hear his likes again.
To that end, we here at The SoundBard are proud to […]
BY MIKE METTLER – JUNE 1, 2017
Believe it or not, the most important date in popular music history is Sunday, June 1, 1947. That’s the exact date Paul McCartney refers to in the title track of The Beatles’ seminal 1967 album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band when he sings its opening line: “It […]
BY MIKE METTLER – MAY 12, 2017
50 years ago today, Pink Floyd headlined Games for May on May 12, 1967, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall (QEH) in London. The show was billed as “Space age relaxation for the climax of spring – electronic composition, colour and image projection, girls, and The Pink Floyd.” (The […]
BY MIKE METTLER – MARCH 19, 2017
Could the indie art-rock gods known as Spoon have come up with a better name for their electrifyingly great new album than Hot Thoughts? Not bloody likely.
On their first studio effort in 3 years, the Austin, Texas-based collective is firing on all cylinders. From the echo-driven joy of the […]
BY MIKE METTLER – MARCH 3, 2017
In an exclusive video share, legendary Canadian guitarist Rik Emmett walks us through the current album by his band Rik Emmett & RESolution9, RES 9, track by track, and he also plays us a number of its signature riffs while doing so. Take a look and give a […]
BY MIKE METTLER – JANUARY 21, 2017
Over in my weekly Audiophile column for Digital Trends, Jade Puget, guitarist and co-producer for California-bred emo-punks AFI, and I discussed the band’s new release on Concord, AFI (The Blood Album), his favorite plug-ins and programming options, balancing tempo shifts between songs both live and on record, and reconciling […]
