Illinois Entertainer February 2016 | Page 20

WOLFMOTHER Solo No More By Tom Lanham L ately, Australian rocker Andrew Stockdale can’t help feeling a little bit like Lazarus, freshly raised from the dead. In 2013, he unceremoniously laid to rest his Sabbath-sludgy outfit Wolfmother, after two albums and three Grammy-equilvant ARIA trophies in its homeland. A year later, he issued a record that had started as a band project, “New Crown,” under his own name, and booked a solo tour of America. But Wolfmother simply would not stay buried. And it’s now fully clawed its way out of the grave with a sledgehammering new effort called Victorious, produced by Pearl Jam/Bruce Springsteen alum Brendan O’Bri [