When I first heard the Heartless Bastards a few years back, I thought, “there’s someone who listened to a *lot* of Zeppelin when they were young.”  That’s not a unique thought, by any means.  It will get further reinforcement on their latest release, The Mountain.  In addi...

Heartless Bastards recently recorded a session at World Cafe in Philadelphia. Mark your calendars now because this session will be airing Thursday March 19 and you definitely do not want to miss this. National Public Radio’s World Cafe with host......

Pretty sure I’ve mentioned this before, but I’m usually not too high on female vocalists — unless it’s a nice throaty alto in the vein of Heartless Bastards frontlady Erika Wennerstrom. Anni Rossi , however, doesn’t have that growl. But she’s won me over with her ...

I recently got turned on to this Dayton, OH-based band and am now a big fan. Erika Wennerstrom recently took time from the insanely busy touring schedule to tell us about her gear. The new record is called "The Mountain"......

OK, so we've only got a week left in this short month, but better late than never! Here are thirteen sweet tracks for the takin', all extrawack! approved for your pleasure. Heartless Bastards - "The Mountain" mp3 The Proclaimers - Life With You mp3 Gramercy Arms - Automatic mp3 Tortured Soul - "Did ...

From the water is wet category: David Letterman isn’t funny. But boy does he try. Anyway, while his stale jokes didn’t do much for me, this performance by the Heartless Bastards sure did. I’d love them even if they weren’t from Cincinnati. I wouldn’t love Letterman even...

Michael Carney has illustrated a lot of high profile album covers, most notably the entire discography for The Black Keys (you may note that he shares a last name with the drummer of the band, Pat Carney (his bro)). Most recently, he did the artwork for The Mountain , by The Heartless Bastards. The ...

SOG likes her. I trust his ears. She’s from Dayton. I’ll give it a whirl…...

Donewaiting pointed out that Andrew Bird’s Noble Beast is on sale for $1.99 at the Amazon MP3 store. If you’ve been slacking on picking it up, here’s your chance. Wavves is playing three shows over the next three days here in New York. Hipsters’ heads all over Billyburg are e...

We have some extremes this week. There are a couple releases on here that I am beyond excited for, and a whole lot of crap I couldn’t care less about. For the former group, we have Eluvium’s seven-disk vinyl box set Life Through Bombardment. I bought this back in October and they just an...