Archive: 2019

Robben Ford is one of those artists who doesn’t like repeating himself. With every new project, each new album, he puts a new spin on his sound, his playing, his lyrical focus. It’s how most artists are; otherwise they end up with dozens of songs that sound exactly the same. And that is NOT what […]

Steve Hackett’s stature as a prog pioneer goes well beyond his seminal stint with Genesis. Although he’s maintained the band’s early signature sound in his own recordings, he’s also added inventive elements of his own to further illuminate a distinctive progressive posture. On his exceptional new album, dramatically dubbed At The Edge of Light, Hackett employs […]

The Motet has been dropping their brand of funky jams since the turn of the millennium and Death Or Devotion marks the group’s ninth studio album and the first with some new members. The outfit has long made their bones on live stages around the country and for any band whose bread and butter is in-the-moment […]

It is early in the year, but one of the best double-billings you’ll come across in 2019 is on tour and is not to be missed. T. Hardy Morris and Daniel Romano, both of New West Records and both of whom released excellent records in 2018, have paired up for a series of shows together, […]

Chaz Bear/Bundick/take your pick has been bobbing along for many a year now, his Toro Y Moi project an ever-present in the decade or so since the rise of chillwave. Ascending the incline from humble home-recorded origins – down-tempo bedroom electronics aren’t an easy set of tools with which to break through the walls of […]

The headline grabber for Trapper Schoepp’s newest album Primetime Illusion is that the singer/songwriter has co-written a song with none other than Bob Dylan himself. That track “On, Wisconsin” is the last song on the record but before it spins, Schoepp delights the listener with a mix of Americana, easy rolling 70’s influenced rock and […]

FIDLAR ripped onto the scene in 2012 with a slew of adolescence-embracing, reckless rock anthems for their self-titled debut album. Nearly seven years after “Cheap Beer”, “No Waves” and “Wake Bake Skate” they are back with their third full-length album, Almost Free, which employs some new tricks but mostly stays true to the band’s debauched, […]

Perhaps Finland’s Ina Forsman came to your attention with her self-titled debut or on the Ruf Records Blues Caravan 2016. The gifted 24-year-old vocalist returns with her more expansive, fully realized sophomore effort Been Meaning to Tell You.  She’s been singing professionally since age 17. Growing up in Helsinki, she says, “I was six years […]