It’s been about 14 years since Davell Crawford has released a proper, full-length album, and My Gift to You, which Basin Street Records released today marks a couple of interesting events – Crawford’s first release with […]
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My Gift to You is the first album of original material that Davell Crawford has released in over 13 years, and the material on the album, which includes guest appearances from the likes of Big Freedia, […]
!!! (pronounced chk! chk! chk!) recently released their fifth full-length album, Thr!!!er through Warp Records. Just before they’re about to embark on a three month-long tour to support the new effort – with stops in Cambridge, […]
Founded in 1961, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band had a very distinct and important mission – to promote traditional New Orleans Jazz with total authenticity. Their legendary first lineup has been long gone but the […]
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 […]
“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’ […]
Jason Marsalis at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola 3/4/13
Jason Marsalis Jazz at Lincoln Center, Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola March 4, 2013 There are few families who have had quite the same impact on jazz – hell, on modern music over the course of […]
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 […]