LISTEN: Musical Shapeshifter Mickey Newball Rings In Joyful Psych Vignette Via “Ruby Jean”
Mickey Newball is back with a luscious and fresh new single, “Ruby Jean” (below). The Santa Cruz multi-instrumentalist shines here, singing with an explosive strength with a tasteful array of psychedelic synthesizers and colorful guitar stylings. Trying to pinpoint Newball to a genre is tiresome as this musical shapeshifter moves from eras and soundscapes with […]
47 Years Ago Today, Former Members of Free, Mott the Hoople and King Crimson Unite To Create Bad Company
ALBUM PREMIERE: The Watters Soar with Buoyant Soul Sounds on ‘Intuition’
A self-described clairvoyant massage therapist lit the spark for The Watters’ third album Intuition, which is due out this Friday, January 23rd. Daniel and Jenna Watters – schoolmates turned band mates turned soul mates, whose adventurous path is woven through four megalopolises (Los Angeles, Denver, Nashville, and Austin) and features repeated codas back to Sedona, […]
Bi-Continental Folk-Pop Group The Burnt Pines Create Rousing Debut (ALBUM REVIEW)
This trio, The Burnt Pines, first came together in a Lisbon, Portugal recording studio in the summer of 2018, with two of them having met prior to that at Boston’s esteemed Berklee School of Music. They are Danish-born singer and lyricist Kris Skovmand, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Aaron Flanders, and Portuguese-born keyboard player and arranger Miguel […]
Bassist Leon Lee Dorsey Issues the Final Recording of Pianist/Composer Harold Mabern On ‘Thank You, Mr. Mabern!’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
Recorded in July 2019, just two months before the passing of great pianist and composer Harold Mabern, Thank You, Mr. Mabern! features the leader, bassist Leon Lee Dorsey, and drummer Mike Clark in a trio. This posthumous release is not only Dorsey’s personal farewell to the beloved Mabern, but marks six decades of music from […]
LISTEN: Lutalo Rings In Street Cred With Bonafide Fuzz Indie Rocker “Warned Her”
Lutalo is a 21-year-old multi-instrumentalist and producer. Born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Lutalo established themselves as a songwriter and producer at an early stage and set out to create visually evoking music. Lutalo builds from the ground up to create something new yet familiar. Check out the trippy and enchanting new single “Warned Her” from […]
LISTEN: DeMeir Drops Soulful & Magnetic Grooves Via ‘Risk”
DeMeir is a product of an environment that most could not imagine. His extraordinary life has been compiled with moments of love, loss, and trauma. Hailing from Paterson, New Jersey, one of the most violent cities in America, Demeir has been able to translate his experiences to soul-warming tales and melodies that will keep you yearning for […]
25 Years Ago Today – Cibo Matto Drops Its Food-Centric Debut LP ‘Viva! La Woman’ (Watch “Sugar Water” Video)
50 Years Later: Revisiting ZZ Top’s Smokin’ Debut LP – ‘ZZ Top’s First Album’
With fifty years having elapsed since ZZ Top’s debut studio album (released 1/16/71), the wide fame the group garnered via Eliminator in the early Eighties seems to exist in a time warp. But the trio curried incremental favor with the public in the interim between those two aforementioned milestones: their first top-ten album, 1973’s Tres […]
‘Tomorrow’s Sky: Photographs by Neal Casal’ Captures Another Creative Side Of The Late Artist (BOOK REVIEW)
Before Neal Casal took his own life in August 2019, one of the final wishes he stipulated was for a book to be created from the photos he had taken over the years. The result is Tomorrow’s Sky: Photographs by Neal Casal, proceeds from the sale of which benefit the nonprofit music Foundation that bears […]