Last Saturday, i was at Brooklyn Bowl for a night of dub and reggae featuring Subatomic Sound System, Top Shotta Band and the legendary ska outfit, the Skatalties. And although Subatomic Sound System and Top […]
Album Review: Superhuman Happiness’ Hands
Album art by: Joao Machado Photo Credit: Nathan West Superhuman Happiness Hands Royal Potato Family Records Release Date: March 5, 2013 Track Listing Our Favorite Part I Can Hear You Calling Sentimental Pieces Pattern […]
The Knife’s “A Tooth For An Eye” managed to remind me quite a bit of this song – Peter Gabriel’s “Shock the Monkey,” off Security. Much like the video for “A Tooth For An Eye,” “Shock […]
Swedish electro pop act, the Knife will be releasing, Shaking the Habitual, the act’s first (and much anticipated) album in a couple of years through Mute Records on April 9th. And the album will reportedly be […]
Turkish producer and performer Alpman just recently released a new single “Not That Good.” Unlike his previous single, which was reminiscent of old school breakbeats, this latest single is much more old school soul. In […]
Boysnoize Records was founded in 2005 by Alex Ridha, a.k.a. Boys Noize as a way to maintain his creative freedom – he not only releases work as Boys Noize but under different monikers, such as […]
After the release of four celebrated albums, two Grammy award nominations and several others and about a dozen chart hits including a number 1 song in her native Sweden, singer/songwriter Elin Ruth moved across the […]
The Vanity Belles, Jimmy Lloyd and Friends, and Peter Cincotti at Highline Ballroom 3/5/13
The other day, Jimmy Lloyd, the host of NBC’s The Jimmy LLoyd Songwriter Showcase was behind a night of some talented singer/songwriters at the Highline Ballroom which included country act, the Vanity Belles, Jimmy Lloyd and […]
Papertwin’s founding members, vocalist and guitarist Max Decker and drummer Francis Cardinale met as students at the Putney School in Vermont in the early 2000s. Much like countless other musicians, they moved to Brooklyn where they began experimenting […]
The UK-based duo of Luca Santucci and Ben Fitzgerald, a.k.a. Stubborn Heart, from London and Oxford respectively, have developed a reputation for a soulful and yet atmospheric electronica which has been influenced by the likes […]
Jason Marsalis at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola 3/4/13
Jason Marsalis Jazz at Lincoln Center, Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola March 4, 2013 There are few families who have had quite the same impact on jazz – hell, on modern music over the course of […]
Caveman’s much anticipated sophomore, self-titled album will be seeing an April 2nd release through Fat Possum Records. And based on the first single, which was released a little while ago, the New York-based quintet have […]
The Wisconsin-based quartet All Tiny Creatures will be releasing their sophomore effort, Dark Clock through Hometape Records on May 28th. “Quickest Cut” is the first single from the new album, and although some of my colleagues have […]
Each of the individual members of Perth, Australia’s, the Growl have been in a number of bands in that are part of that city’s musical community – for example, lead singer Cameron Avery is the […]
Although now based in New York, electro pop quartet Haerts has members who originally hailed from Germany, the UK and the US. The band’s first single, “Wings” was produced by Jean-Philip Grobler, a.k.a. St. Lucia. […]