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DownTown Mystic is taking us back to where it all started. The New Jersey musician, also known as Robert Allen, is a veteran roots rocker who has been entertaining the Northeast for more than five decades. The Static Dive readers have followed the past five years of that journey, since the release of his 2019 single “The […]

Daniel Davies is a Los Angeles-based guitarist, composer, and singer whose music ranges from hard rock to horror soundtracks. The son of Kinks guitarist Dave Davies and godson of director/composer John Carpenter, Davies has music and cinema in his blood. He spent much of the 2000s as the singer and guitarist of Year Long Disaster, […]

Initially formed in 2004 as the solo project of teenage singer/songwriter John McCauley, Deer Tick acquired shape over the coming years, evolving from McCauley’s spare and quavering solo material into a rough-and-tumble road rock outfit as more bandmembers joined the fold. War Elephant, the debut album from the fully formed version of the band, was […]

New York City’s most beloved blues bashers have been huffing and puffing and blowing houses down on a nightly basis on their infinite world tour and always bring an elevated level of rough and ready intensity to contemporary lo-fi blues with their explosive fire ceremony! ”A Daddy Long Legs show is equal parts roots rock, […]

Originally billed as Grace Park & The Deer, this band has undergone several stages of metamorphosis over the last decade, least notably Grace’s new last name. The Deer’s latest LP, 2019’s Do No Harm, introduced us to an evolved sound – bigger arrangements, fewer folk-centered acoustic instruments, and more emphasis on psychedelia and indie rock. Well, […]

DOROTHY, like Blondie and DAUGHTRY before them, is a group, not a person. Nevertheless, it’s clear that Dorothy Martin is the driving force of the Los Angeles-based quartet: she’s not only the namesake, she’s the singer and the star around which the other members rotate. Due to landing a contract with Jay-Z’s Roc Nation, the […]

Dion DiMucci had a career unlike any other in 20th century popular music, one that took him from harmonizing doo wop on the streets of the Bronx to baring his soul on a series of singer/songwriter albums in the ’70s, spending his later years bringing his blues into the 21st century. First famous for the […]

Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in London in 1968. They are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock DEEP PURPLE‘s next studio effort will be an album of covers titled “Turning To Crime”. Released on November 26 via earMUSIC, the LP contains DEEP PURPLE‘s versions of great […]

Duran Duran epitomized the sleek, fashionable side of new wave, specializing in danceable, synthesized pop delivered with visual flair — a talent crystallized in a series of groundbreaking music videos from the early 1980s. The group had the good fortune to deliver their debut album in 1981, the same year MTV began broadcasting, and their […]

As one of the most popular California pop/rock bands of the ’70s, the Doobie Brothers evolved from a mellow, post-hippie boogie band to a slick, soul-inflected pop band by the end of the decade. Along the way, the group racked up a string of gold and platinum albums in the U.S., along with a number of radio […]