With the end of a long-term relationship, there’s obviously quite a deal of heartache but in many ways ghosts almost always manage to linger. Certainly, singer/songwriter Alela Diane can attest to this, as her latest […]
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After releasing three successful and well-recieved albums and concerts all over the world, Carmen Souza has become an important figure in modern Cape Verdean music. In fact, Souza and her music have developed a reputation […]
“Birds” is one of the first batch of singles from the Morals‘ Music, Tree, Life, Understanding. With a devastatingly simple arrangement for the bulk of the song – guitar, vocals and drums – the song, thanks […]
The forthcoming Behold A Pale Horse will be Anna Rose’s sophomore effort, as well as the follow-up to her critically well-received debut, Nomad. i’ve heard a great deal of the songs off Pale Horse live, and the material reflects Mencken’s extraordinary […]
Preview: My Name Is You at Rockwood Music Hall
The duo of My Name Is You met while students in Southern California. After graduation, Brandon went on to tour and record with Greg Laswell, Joshua Radin, Ingrid Michaelson, Tristan Prettyman and others, Anne, moved […]
Brushy One String (born Andrew Chin) has a story that sounds much like those of the old-time Mississippi Delta bluesmen – orphaned at a very young age, illiterate until adulthood, and yet talented (he comes […]
Since Mia Dyson emerged from Melbourne, Australia’s music scene, Dyson split up with her long-term partner, went broke had her band split up, and her management tried to change her name and sell her out […]
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 […]
After the release of the critically well-received release, Wildernerss, singer/songwriter Josh Mease began recording a new batch of songs in 2011 within the solitude of his bedroom studio set up. And much like his previous release, he […]
After the release of four celebrated albums, two Grammy award nominations and several others and about a dozen chart hits including a number 1 song in her native Sweden, singer/songwriter Elin Ruth moved across the […]
The Vanity Belles, Jimmy Lloyd and Friends, and Peter Cincotti at Highline Ballroom 3/5/13
The other day, Jimmy Lloyd, the host of NBC’s The Jimmy LLoyd Songwriter Showcase was behind a night of some talented singer/songwriters at the Highline Ballroom which included country act, the Vanity Belles, Jimmy Lloyd and […]
The Nashville, TN-based singer/songwriter Caitlin Rose will be releasing her sophomore effort, The Stand In on March 5th through ATO Records. On “I Was Cruel,” the first single from her forthcoming album, her sound manages to balance […]
After releasing two critically applauded albums, Icelandic singer/songwriter Olof Arnalds will be releasing her second Stateside album Sudden Elevation through One Little Indian Records on March 5th. “Sudden Elevation” is the first single from the album, and […]
5Pianist/singer/songwriter Sara Jackson-Holman’s sophomore effort, Cardiology comes from a very personal place – she wrote the songs in a variety of ways and she then producing almost final versions of the songs that wound up on Cardiology before heading […]
Elin Ruth at the Living Room 12/6/12
Elin Ruth The Living Room December 6, 2012 Dressed in a black and white checkered, knee-length dress, and with a small flower in her hair, the tall, tattooed Swedish-born singer/songwriter Elin Ruth bore an uncanny […]