Last year, Dead Can Dance released their first album in 16 years, Anastasis through [PIAS] America Records. Naturally, a tour to support the album, and while on tour, the band recorded several dates from the American leg […]
“Toe Cutter – Thumb Buster,” is the first single from Thee Oh Sees’ forthcoming effort, Floating Coffin which will see an April 16th release through Castle Face Records. The track is a great bit of psych […]
Mike Roi and Andy Shernoff at the LIC Bar 3/13/13
Last Wednesday, I was at the LIC Bar and caught Mike Roi, of Roi and the Secret People and Andy Shernoff of the legendary punk band, the Dictators. Despite the fact that there was a […]
The Vancouver, BC-based Lions in the Street specialize in a straightforward, balls-to the-wall kind of rock ‘n roll akin to that of the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – and they’ve been compared in some circles […]
In music, just like everything else, the adage of the six degrees of separation is very much true – even in a city like New York, there are times when the city is quite small. […]
Boysnoize Records founded by Alex Ridha, a.k.a. Boys Noize in 2005 is celebrating their 100th release with two special remixes – Justice had an incredible remix of Boys Noize’s “ICH R U” off his incredible Out […]
Comprised of three childhood friends, Sergio, Aleix, and Ed, from the village of Anserall, Spain in the Pyrenees Mountains, Cut Your Hair released the blissful and energetic debut single, “Utah in Pictures” last year. The Mad […]
Although he’s best known for his involvement in the Playing for Change project as a drummer, Mohammed Alidu has been developing a reputation as a singer/songwriter and performer. He’s released two solo albums and is […]
Untitled 3/14/13
I had been stuck at work a bit later than what I had intended and I still didn’t finish up everything i wanted or needed to finish. But i walked out of the office and […]
Jason Marsalis’s latest effort, In A World Of Mallets reached #3 on JazzWeek’s Radio Chart and #4 on CMJ’s chart and after catching the youngest of the venerable Marsalis family at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club […]
After a discussion of old school hip hop with several Twitter followers, I had mentioned this track, the Young Black Teenager’s “Tap the Bottle.” I remember that Kid Capri used to play this one quite […]
Back in 2006, Montag Mania released their debut effort, Piraya through their own Love Bomb Music Records to favorable reviews in their native Sweden. And as a result of the buzz from that album, they opened for […]
Rhythm and Culture Music recently signed the Indiana-based multi-instrumentalist and electronic music artist and producer Clint Carty, a.k.a Kaleidoscope Jukebox, and his first album, Infinite Reflection is a 14 song collection of varied, world music-inspired soundscapes that […]
Electro pop artist, Tying Tiffany has been on the covers of magazines and strutted (and sashayed, too?) on catwalks in her native Italy, and she’s won over audiences with her dark, atmospheric music – in […]