Heartless Bastards Radiate Rock and Roll Positivity in Portland, OR (SHOW REVIEW/PHOTOS)
Erika Wennerstrom has always translated her personal life journey and reflections into the music of the Heartless Bastards, the ever-evolving band she has fronted since 2003. Her latest release A Beautiful Life (REVIEW) finds her reaching for hope in a time where that is hard to come by, and musically it is a vast departure from the […]
SONG PREMIERE: Teddy Grossman Opens Up with Throwback R&B Sounds on “Ready”
“I’m finally feeling like I’m exactly where I’m supposed to be,” says Teddy Grossman, and the forthright, ever-soulful singer-songwriter speaks like a man who has been down many paths only to arrive back definitively where he’s forever belonged. Adds Grossman, a palpable determination and resolve in his voice: “I need to be able to look […]
VIDEO PREMIERE: Gregory Dwane Drops Aching & Hard Janglin'”When You Say California”
A former tech who been “everywhere man” and a producer for Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls, Gregory Dwane wears more credentials to sing the stories then most any new Nashville arrivals with a Stetson hat and guitar case. Dwane brings a a rollicking and smoky vibrato to his compositions where thick bleeding guitar tones […]
Silver Synthetic Keep It Crisp & Poignant At Brooklyn’s Union Pool (SHOW REVIEW)
On an unseasonably balmy November Friday night at Brooklyn’s Union Pool on November 12th, Silver Synthetic swept up from New Orleans to deliver a set of tight rock and roll for fans at Union Pool during their first New York City show. Opening with the thumping “Anyway I Can” the four-piece, Chris Lyons, Lucas Bogner, […]
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Lukas Nelson and Promise of The Real Leaves ‘Em Satisfied At Tucson’s Rialto Theatre (SHOW REVIEW)
Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real (POTR) have not performed in Tucson since the band opened for B. B. King in 2009. Back 12 years ago there was no band introduction and they came out on stage and started playing. Those in attendance were scratching their heads because the voice was so familiar. We […]
Henry Cole & Villa Locura Fuse Jazz, Funk, Afrobeat, Soul and Hip-hop with Expansive “Buscando La Vida” (ALBUM REVIEW)
Buscano La Vida was born from two very different events – a fire that destroyed master drummer, composer, and arranger Henry Cole’s NYC apartment and an unexpected New Jazz Works grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation once he had relocated to his native Puerto Rico. With both the loss and the gain occurring during […]
LISTEN: stores Cross-Genre Blurring Lines Via Intoxicating “blue sunday”
Both Hannah Brown & Sam Warren were already fixtures of the Liverpool underground scene when they found themselves on the same bill in late 2017. At the time they were coming to the end of their current projects, Hannah And The Wick Effect and Jo Mary respectively. Jamming and writing together regularly in Warren’s flat, before long they’d […]
JJ Grey & Mofro Keep Swampy, Soulful Grooves Flowing in Portland, Oregon (SHOW REVIEW/PHOTOS)
From the opening notes of “Country Ghetto” through the end of their set over two hours later, JJ Grey & Mofro had what seemed like a welcome home party at Portland, Oregon’s Crystal Ballroom on Thursday, November 11th, although they were thousands of miles away from Grey’s north Florida residence. The crowd fell into the […]
They Might Be Giants Continue Its Quirky Earworm Songcraft With ‘BOOK’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
What an astounding career They Might Be Giants have had. Since 1982 John Flansburgh and John Linnell have delivered unique tunes crafted for everyone from hipsters to kids to senior citizens, for educational purposes, wacky cartoons, indie flicks and even CNN, all the while keeping their idiosyncratic style intact. Their newest offering, BOOK is next […]