Beach Day’s latest single, “Walking on the Streets,” came out the other day as part of a 7" single that Kanine Records released on November 14th. I spent this morning listening to this track and it fit […]
Author: William Ruben Helms
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French producer, Jerome Ettinger has devoted his life and career to exploring, preserving, and spreading the sound of Egypt, since he had gone to the North African country to study the arghul, a clarinet-like double-pipe, […]
Inflated Records recently released a split album Out of Season with So Cow and Squarehead, two of Ireland’s hottest and finest guitar pop acts. Both bands played CMJ this year and have been getting a lot […]
The Sword released their latest album, Apocryphon their first on Razor and Tie Records to critical acclaim not that long ago. The great folks at Brooklyn Vegan premiered the official video for Apocryphon’s opening track, ‘Veil of […]
Houston, TX-based stoner rock band, Linus Pauling Quartet has been around for twenty years – a long time in the music business. And as a result the band is releasing a 3 CD career retrospective […]
The Capsules forthcoming release, Northern Lights & Southern Skies which is also the bands fourth full-length album, finds the band expanding their sound. Guitar has mostly be eschewed in favor of keyboards, and loops giving the band some […]
Over the summer, I caught Rah Digga perform as part of the 20th anniversary celebration of the Lyricist Lounge at Prospect Park, and admittedly I wasn’t all that impressed by her on stage. But she […]
As a rapper, Homeboy Sandman is probably the most talented and inventive rapper out there. Often rhyming over complex beats no one else has considered, he makes references that are hyper-literature, and use complex rhyme […]
Nicola at the Rockwood Music Hall 10/25/12
So back in October, I caught the very lovely and very talented Nicola, backed by her incredible backing band at Rockwood Music Hall, and the show was intended as a celebratory sort of show, as […]
Boston Fielder and his band Muthawit have played with the likes of Spoek Mathambo, MF Doom, the Shins, Jneiro Jarel, and others. Their latest effort, PMS Junkie – PMS is actually an acronym for Pre Military […]
