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 […]
http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/v=2/album=141166923/size=venti/bgcol=FFFFFF/linkcol=4285BB/ Marty Crandall teamed up with fellow-former Shins guitarist Neal Langford to play a benefit show for an ailing friend – but the project became more of a permanent and serious thing when both Langford […]
Album Review: VYIE’S Nightingale
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Uninhabitable Mansions Records will be releasing Radical Dads’ forthcoming album Rapid Reality on May 21st, and “Mountain Town” is the latest single. Interestingly, the new single reminds me quite a bit of a cleaner Sonic Youth – […]
“Lost In My Head” is the shimmering, echoey and latest single from My Gold Mask’s newest effort, Leave Me Midnight which was released digitally and through CD on February 26th. it’ll see a vinyl release on March […]
Norwegian quintet Highasakite has gotten quite a bit of love from publications such as Pitchfork, NME, Paste and even MTV. The band recently released their latest EP in and out of weeks and they’re making their Stateside debut […]
Carrie Rodriguez, the daughter of singer/songwriter David Rodriguez and painter Kay Nail and the granddaughter of essayist Francis Nail has ben around for quite some time – Rodriguez’s fourth (and most current) album, Give Me All […]
a Q&A with Superhuman Happiness’ Stuart Bogie
Led by the boyishly mischievous Stuart Bogie, the septet of Superhuman Happiness is probably one of the more accomplished bands I’ve come across in recent memory – you can practically play a rather dizzying game […]
Nashville’s Bad Cop plays a sweaty, grimy blues reminiscent of the MC5, the Doors‘ LA Woman, the White Stripes and others. The Chicago Lady 7" was recently released through Jeffery Drag Records, and the official video for […]
Over their fourteen year history, the Lawrence, KS-based band the Appleseed Cast has gone through several lineup changes, and in this lineup change the band finds their sound has expanded to include an almost precise […]