New York-baesd producer and artist Richard Spitzer has been around for a minute – he’s released music under the monikers of Nite Club, Vinyl Life, and Little Star Dweller. With the addition of Harlem-based rapper […]
Author: William Ruben Helms
I'm a music blogger, critic and photographer, who has had articles and photos published in Downbeat, Premier Guitar Magazine, Brooklyn Magazine, The New York Press, New York Magazine's Vulture Blog, Ins&Outs Magazine, The Noise Beneath the Apple, Glide Magazine, The Whiskey Dregs Magazine and others.
All Good Funk Alliance‘s Jacks of All Trades was 37th on this site’s Best of 2012 list, and it’s a great bit of early 1980s inspired funk. “Go Go Bananas” is the last single from the the […]
The Ocean Blue’s debut effort, released through Sire Records in 1989 was not only well-received by critics and fans, it got a ton of airplay on radio and on MTV. The band released two more […]
The Brooklyn-based due of Tamara Jafar and Joe Durniak, a.k,a, Cultfever, recently released their first 7" “Animals”/“Chicken” and it’s a buzzing bit of funky and angular electro pop. It bears a similarity to borough counterparts, […]
Ah, coming just in time for Valentine’s Day, is the official video for Triple Hex’s “Love Song,” shot in Mon Amie Records’ foudner Mona Dehghan’s birthplace of Reno, NV. Shot in a grainy super 8 […]
a Q&A with Steven A. Clark
Ranking fourth on this site’s Best of 2012 list, behind the co-number ones, Cody ChesnuTT’s certain classic, Landing on a Hundred and Lee “Scratch” Perry and the Orb’s trippy, mind-bending The ORBSERVER in the star […]
Latin Grammy-winning band Bajofondo’s sound is heavily informed and influenced by the sound of the Rio de la Plata, the river that forms the border between Uruguay and Argentina – in other words you’ll hear […]
The legendary (and shamefully only two time Grammy-winning) LL Cool J will be releasing his 14th full length album, Authentic through 429 Records/The Savoy Music Group/Fontana North Distribution on April 30th. if you watched this year’s Grammies, […]
Vocalist Anika spent her professional career as a political journalist living between Berlin and Bristol, UK when she had met producer Geoff Barrow. At the time, Barrow was seeking a vocalist to work with his […]
Selebrities teamed up with friends Erika Spring and Lissy Truille to record this slickly produced, Cut Copy-like cover to Fleetwood Mac’s “Everywhere.” (And by Cut Copy, it really seems to have an 80s New Wave […]
