The Stockholm, Sweden-based trio, Kriget (means “The War" in Swedish) play a highly challenging, experimental music that defies all known genre conventions. “He Lives In The Same Forest As Me,” off the trio’s newest effort, Dystopico buzzes with an ominous […]
“The Warden” is the first single off the Los Angeles, CA -based singer/songwriter Chelsea Wolfe’s third, full-length studio album, Pain Is Beauty which will see a September 3rd release through Sargent House Records. The material on the […]
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As I was on my way to Summerstage to cover Sinkane and Femi Kuti, i caught this bit of graffiti on a truck on Lexington Avenue between East 71st Street and East 72nd Street, if […]
Sinkane and Femi Kuti at Rumsey Playfield, Summerstage 6/23/13
Sinkane and Femi Kuti Rumsey Playfield, Summerstage June 23, 2013 Last Sunday afternoon was a gorgeous summer afternoon – incredibly, bright sunlight, with cerulean blue skies and puffy clouds but uncomfortably hot. I think that […]
The Stockholm, Sweden-based trio, Kriget (means “The War" in Swedish) play a highly challenging, experimental music that defies all known genre conventions. Starting off with the sound of a static, a buzzing fly, followed by heavy, stomping drums […]
The now-New York-based band Haerts has members who originally hailed from Germany, the UK and the US. Their first single, “Wings” produced by St. Lucia’s Jean-Philip Grobler, actually has his sonic stamp all over it […]
At the end of 2012, the Chicago, IL-based band Disappears spent the end of 2012 and early 2013 holed up in the Electrical Audio Studio writing and recording the material that wound up becoming their […]
Kid Karate, the duo of vocalist/guitarist Kevin Breen and drummer Steven Gannon have a loud, bluesy power chord and thundering drumming sound that should sound familiar to you – think of the Black Keys, the […]
My Gift to You is Davell Crawford’s first full-length release in well over a decade. Released through the renowned Basin Street Records, the album is Crawford’s love letter to his birthplace and hometown, and it features […]
New Music Seminar Festival Day 3: Twin Wave and the Grizzled Mighty at Piano’s and Xenia Rubinos and Bury Me a Lion at the Delancey 6/11/13
New Music Seminar Festival Day 3: Twin Wave and the Grizzled Mighty at Piano’s and Xenia Rubinos and Bury Me a Lion at the Delancey June 11 2013 Tuesday, the 11th marked the third and […]
I caught the extremely young, Los Angeles, CA-based trio of the Vim Dicta at a relatively early set at Piano’s on Monday night and I was impressed – they play with a confidence and assuredness […]
Since their founding 2004, the Chicago, IL-based band Walking Bicycles will be releasing a 7" on July 30th – titled So/Badada, the material on the 7" will be a teaser for the band’s fourth full-length […]
Milwaukee, WI-based band Elusive Parallelograms will be releasing their forthcoming album. Fragments on July 2nd. “8 Bit” is the latest single off the album, and it reminds me of a moodier version of the Fixx’s “Sign […]
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of it’s founding and with that occasion, the current members were left to consider the sort of soul-searching questions that every institution should ask themselves. […]
New York-based producer, vocalist and electronica artist Morgan Neiman, who has been writing and creating music since she was about 13, writes, records and performs under the moniker Ducky. In fact, she’s performed alongside Lil […]