The Atlanta, GA-based band, Blair Crimmins and the Hookers have dedicated their musical careers to revive and bring Ragtime and 1920s Dixieland jazz to new audiences – especially those audiences who may have been unfamiliar […]
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A Q&A with Blair Crimmins and the Hookers’ Blair Crimmins
Jazz is America’s first and greatest cultural and music contribution to the world. After all, there are few genres that have managed to convey the depths of human emotion and experience in the same fashion […]
There are a handful of bands who have managed to survive more than a decade and more than two decades together is especially rare. With the changing financial structure of the music industry, that may […]
Claiming the likes of Ornette Coleman and Merle Haggard as his influences, raised in Atlanta, GA and now based in Los Angeles, CA, singer/songwriter Charlie Greene has a rather interesting story — he’s the son of a touring singer/songwriter, the grandson of a big […]
Claiming the likes of Ornette Coleman and Merle Haggard as his influences, raised in Atlanta, GA and now based in Los Angeles, CA, singer/songwriter Charlie Greene has a rather interesting story – he’s the son […]
Cascine Records, a label that’s quickly become a favorite label of mine, recently released Kids in L.A. the latest effort from the duo of Kisses. The duo is on an East Coast tour which includes […]
VPI Harmony is the debut effort from the Atlanta, GA-based quintet Mood Rings. And the album bears a similarity to Cut Copy’s incredible In Ghost Colours in the fact that it reveals a band with a sound that’s […]
Damp Face is the latest EP from the Seattle, WA-based quartet of La Luz. “Sure as Spring” is the latest single from that EP, and when you listen to the track, it should remind you of […]
Since I mentioned it earlier, the Atlanta, GA–based (and self-descrIbed death-pop) trio VYIE recently collaborated with Brooklyn-based electronica outfit, Dream Circle for a remix album. Dream Circle’s reinterpretation of VIYE’s “Darrk Knight” is dizzying and trippy while retaining the […]
The Atlatna, GA-based (and self-described death-pop) trio VYIE recently collaborated with Brooklyn-based electronica outfit, Dream Circle for a remix album. Dream Circle’s reinterpretation of VIYE’s “Darrrk Knight” is dizzying and trippy while retaining the anxious […]
“Zombies” is the second single from the Portland, OR-based band Radiation City’s upcoming Tender Loving Empire Records release, Animals in the Median, and what i love about this song is that it sounds like it was […]
4AD Records will be releasing Deerhunter’s fifth and long-awaited full-length album, Monomania on May 7th. Album title track, “Monomania” is the first single from the Atlanta, GA-based quintet’s new effort, and it’s a grungy, sketchy, and down […]
The Atlanta, Georgia-based quintet, Dead Confederate will be releasing their third full-length album, In the Marrow on April 16th, and with their third album the band continues their reputation for effortlessly mixing grunge rock with deep-fried Southern […]
Splashh, a London-based quartet by way of Australia can claim their origins from lead vocalist and guitarist Sasha Carlson’s love of traveling. Carlson had met the Australian guitarist/keyboardist Toto Vivian while on a trip and […]
Last year, St. Lucia released two EPs, Closer Than This and September which wound up on this site’s Honorable Mention List for 2012. But perhaps more important for me (and perhaps for you as well, reader) is that St. […]