• DEFINITELY NOT MADE OF CHEESE: AN INTERVIEW WITH ARTHUR MOON

    DEFINITELY NOT MADE OF CHEESE: AN INTERVIEW WITH ARTHUR MOON

    Arthur Moon is a wondrous collaboration between Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Lora-Faye and musicians Cale Hawkins (Quincy Jones, Bilal) and Martin D. Fowler (a composer for This American Life). Arthur Moon is also the moniker that Lora-Faye herself goes by. (More on that in the interview.) Arthur’s debut album is out on vinyl now via Vinyl Me,…

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  • MOVIE REVIEW: GOD OF VAMPIRES

    MOVIE REVIEW: GOD OF VAMPIRES

    by Michael McCarthy One of the most interesting things about writer/director Rob Fitz’s God of Vampires is how it starts: like a regular hitman type of movie with character Frank Ng (Dharma Lim) doing a job that’s a bit difficult, yet he glides through it with a degree of ease and precision that immediately paints…

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  • #songoftheday / #amlistening = TEMPTRESS: “NAKED”

    “Naked” is the latest single by South London production/artist duo Temptress, which consists of Jess Belgrave and Vlad Woodham-Smith, who’ve run up a couple of million streams since 2016. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out why that it is when you listen to their sultry songs on which both Jess and Vlad sing,…

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  • EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT ROB FITZ BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK

    EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT ROB FITZ BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK

    interview by Michael McCarthy Every Wednesday night at 7:30, the Luna Theater, located in Mill No 5. at 250 Jackson St. in Lowell, Massachusetts, hosts Weirdo Wednesdays. Filmmaker/make-up artist Rob Fitz is the man, the myth and the legend who selects the movies each week and introduces them. Nobody but Rob knows what the movie…

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  • THE RETRO-FITTED FUTURE OF ROCK: AN INTERVIEW WITH MIKE FITZ OF BAD MARRIAGE

    THE RETRO-FITTED FUTURE OF ROCK: AN INTERVIEW WITH MIKE FITZ OF BAD MARRIAGE

    interview by Michael McCarthy I love going to see bands I grew up with like Tesla, Poison, Warrant, Firehouse, Lynch Mob and so many others who’ve reunited during the last several years. Or just plain never went splitsville. These guys still kick as much ass as they ever did and some sound even better than…

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  • #songoftheday / #amlistening = Starbreaker feat. Tony Harnell & Magnus Karlsson – “How Many More Goodbyes”

    “How Many More Goodbyes” is one of my favorite songs from Starbreaker’s excellent third album, Dysphoria. If it’s not one of the best power ballads you’ve heard in ages, then you must be listening to something pretty great that I’m completely unaware of because I can’t think of one I’ve found so touching in a…

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  • #SONGOFTHEDAY / #AMLISTENING = Cœur de pirate: “Ne m’appelle pas”

    Cœur de pirate — a.k.a. Beatrice Martin — has returned already, hot on the heels of last year’s fantastic album, En cas de tempête, ce jardin sera fermé. Whether this is a one-off single or she’s already made, or is making, a new album, I do not yet know. What I do know is that…

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  • MUSIC (GODDESS STYLE): AN INTERVIEW WITH NATHASSIA

    MUSIC (GODDESS STYLE): AN INTERVIEW WITH NATHASSIA

    interview by Michael McCarthy “Synchronize your mind with me, a revelation,” sings Nathassia – channeling the Sumerian Goddess of love and war, Inanna – on her new single “Goddess.” It’s a trippy, electro/pop/dance/world music song that’s so, so good, it’s almost as divine and addictive as chocolate. Just listen to the mesmerizing track once and…

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  • BOOK REVIEW: AMID SUMMER’S NIGHTMARE BY APRIL L. WOOD

    BOOK REVIEW: AMID SUMMER’S NIGHTMARE BY APRIL L. WOOD

    review by Michael McCarthy As the story begins, our heroine, Summer Wormwood, finds herself sentenced to spending her summer at Camp Bitter Tonic. It’s kind of like summer school, but also like a charm school and, more importantly, a school for witchcraft. The students learn everything from cooking to having good posture to walking over…

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  • WORLD PREMIERE / #songoftheday = NATHASSIA: “GODDESS”

    I am pleased to present you with the global premiere of her latest single, “Goddess,” which finds her once again in the world music vein as she calls on and portrays the Goddesses Athena, Venus, Diana, Inanna and Laxmi as she sings about feeling like a Goddess herself.

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  • CONCERT REVIEW:  BAD MARRIAGE / THE CRINGE / TESLA: 4/19/19: CASINO BALLROOM, HAMPTON BEACH, NH

    CONCERT REVIEW: BAD MARRIAGE / THE CRINGE / TESLA: 4/19/19: CASINO BALLROOM, HAMPTON BEACH, NH

    by Michael McCarthy all photos by Michael McCarthy except Bad Marriage BAD MARRIAGE I was under the impression that The Cringe and only The Cringe would be opening for Tesla when I left for the show at the legendary Casino Ballroom on Hampton Beach in New Hampshire last Friday night, April 19th, 2019. When I…

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  • NY, DENMARK & THE MUSIC IN BETWEEN: AN INTERVIEW WITH OH LAND

    NY, DENMARK & THE MUSIC IN BETWEEN: AN INTERVIEW WITH OH LAND

    interview by Michael McCarthy Danish singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and composer Nanna Øland Fabricius, better known by her stage name Oh Land, is about as brilliant a musician as they come. The funny thing is, she had no plans of making a career out of music. Although she was born the child of composer Bendt Fabricius…

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  • EVERYWHERE YOU GO: AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN CUSIMANO OF THE CRINGE

    EVERYWHERE YOU GO: AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN CUSIMANO OF THE CRINGE

    interview by Michael McCarthy Hailing from New York, rock band The Cringe is about to release its sixth album, Everywhere You’ve Never Been, this Friday on April 19, 2019. Although it didn’t start out as a concept album, a theme became evident during its creation; each song was about somewhere the band had visited. As…

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  • JUMPING THE GENERAL LEE: AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN SCHNEIDER

    JUMPING THE GENERAL LEE: AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN SCHNEIDER

    interview by Michael McCarthy If you were around in the late ’70s and early ’80s, chances are you watched a popular show called Dukes of Hazzard. It was centered around two brothers, Bo and Luke Duke. Bo was played by John Schneider. Luke was played by Tom Wopat. Bo was the charismatic womanizer and that…

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  • NOT YOUR ORDINARY POP PRINCESS: AN INTERVIEW WITH THEIA

    NOT YOUR ORDINARY POP PRINCESS: AN INTERVIEW WITH THEIA

    interview by Michael McCarthy This Friday, April 12th 2019, New Zealand’s rising pop star Theia releases her highly addictive EP, Not Your Princess. She loves the word sassy and it’s no wonder why because it’s the perfect word to sum up her sound, which features lots of perky tunes with attitude, such as “Honest” and…

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  1. Greetings! I just released my vocal and songwriter debut today called The Kryptonite EP and was reaching out to send…