In the beginning stages of their latest tour, Surf Curse (comprised of members Nick Rattigan [lead vocals, drums], Jacob Rubeck [guitar], Noah Kohll [guitar], and Henry Dillon [bass]) is in Manchester ...

I’ve been rewatching The Sopranos this year. It’s been a long process – partly because of the density of the average Sopranos episode and partly because of the glut of new content to keep up with that ...

Now that Gunna is officially back, he’s gearing up for his first shows in over a year, booking the Barclays Center in New York and YouTube Theater in Los Angeles for a pair of comeback concerts in ...

You may have heard Surf Curse and not even realized it. The song you might've heard is "Freaks," from the group's 2013 lo-fi surf rock debut album, Buds. No, the tune by the Los Angeles-by-way-of-Reno ...

Last year, Atlanta rapper Sergio “Gunna” Kitchens was riding high on the release of his celebratory eighth project, DS4EVER. But in the year and a half since that LP’s January 2022 release, Gunna and ...

Six months after Gunna returned home from jail in the YSL RICO case, he’s back with a new album, released with little warning and no press run. There’s been a lot going on in his personal life, to say ...

Gary Gibula is an SIU alum, musician, writer, editor and author of the Music Historicity columns. He can be reached at [email protected].