I’ve been a David Bowie fan since I was a small child, so when I stumbled on this live footage of Beck’s re-working of David Bowie’s “Sound and Vision,” I was naturally pretty excited – […]
The Australian quartet Gold Fields debut effort, Black Sun has been getting a lot of attention lately – Billboard, MTV and others have named them a band to watch, and they’ll be making appearances on Jimmy Kimmel Live on February […]
Filmmaker Dima Dubson, the filmmaker behind the Adam Green documentary How to Act Bad shot this voyeuristic, impromptu live footage of Reputante’s “Lock Me Up.” Dubson captured the band’s lead singer in in a super tight frame […]
Planet Rox at the Highline Ballroom featuring herMajesty, the Stereo Crowd, Kris Gruen, and Inky Jack 2/10/13
Planet Rox is a bi-monthly music industry networking event and showcase of up-and-coming local talent. This time it was at the Highline Ballroom and naturally, I was there. Photographic evidence is below: herMajesty The Stereo […]
http://deadleafechonyc.com/widgets/Memorytraces/widget.php Dead Leaf Echo will be releasing their long awaited debut-full length, Thoughts and Language on March 5th through Neon Sigh Records, and the album is a concept album that follows a child from his conception, through birth, until […]
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 […]
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 […]