My Gift To You, which Basin Street Records will release on June 11th, is the first album from Davell Crawford (the grandson of James “Sugarboy” Crawford) in almost 14 years. Although, the younger Crawford has lived […]
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“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 […]
When you think of New Orleans – and in particular New Orleans jazz, a few names should immediately come to mind: Louis Armstrong, the Marsalis family, Harry Connick, Jr. Kermit Ruffins, and countless others. Ruffins’ […]
Brooklyn-based quintet Midnight Spin, just recently released their debut full-length effort, Don’t Let Me Sleep and with the release of the album’s second single, “Conchis Bliss,” the band announced a six week national tour to support the […]
If you know anything about New York’s experimental jazz scene, Sexmob will be a familiar name – and if you’re not you’ll soon to be familiar with them as they’ll be releasing their first full-length […]
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 Orleans, LA-based singer/songwriter Carsie Blanton’s sound can be described in some way as American pop – and that shouldn’t be very surprising since Blanton has publicly described her infatuation with the legendary Billie Holiday […]
Brownout has gone from being the side project and alter ego of Grammy award winning, Austin, TX-based act Grupo Fantasma to being more or less a full-time act with the release of the band’s third […]
Electronic act VYIE began in March 2012 when like-minded friends Jessi Monroe and Janey Criss stole three days from their lives to conduct a musical experimental, and the result of that experiment was material that […]
Wicked Knee’s debut album, Heels Over Heads was recently released through bandleader Billy Martin’s Amulet Records. And I have one more great single from it, their rendition of Frank London’s Ghumba Zumba, which should immediately bring to […]
Taking their name from a compilation of old time ragtime and blues Shake Your Wicked Knees, the avant garde, brass jazz quartet of Wicked Knee has one of the most interesting backstories I’ve recently heard. Over twenty […]
Album Reviews
Much like countless other bloggers, I make the often uncomfortable balance between running a blog mostly full-time and having a full-time career, and that can be (understandably) difficult endeavor. With that in mind, I still […]
If you know anything about jazz – hell, about music over the past 50-60 years or so – you know that the venerable New Orleans-based Marsalis family have made a tremendous impact on jazz and […]
a Q&A with Morgan Christopher Geer, a.k.a Drunken Prayer
Singer/songwriter Morgan Christopher Geer has one of the more unique stories I’ve recently heard. Originally, from the San Francisco area, Geer is the son of a California mushroom farmer and a New Orleans folk singer. […]
Swedish born, New Orleans-based singer/songwriter Theresa Andersson’s sophomore effort Street Songs was released earlier this year through Basin Street Records, and it has been critically applauded by publications such as Spin, USA Today, the New York Times, and others. […]