Archive: 2022

The ever-prolific and explorative guitarist Dave Stryker has again found a new configuration for his work. Last year he fronted the WDR BIG Band, and he is beginning 2022 with his long-realized dream of working with a string quartet, aside a “dream” quartet of his own as he is joined by pianist Julian Shore, bassist […]

Fact: Nobody is more prolific than Guided By Voices. Three albums in 2020 and two albums in 2021 and now they are back with yet another new album (their 35th) Crystal Nuns Cathedral – out March 4, 2022. The album holds twelve songs determined to challenge for the title of greatest Guided by Voices album of […]

Canvasback Music / Atlantic Records is proud to announce a new album celebrating the extraordinary work of multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and activist Yoko Ono. Ocean Child: Songs of Yoko Ono arrives Friday, February 18 (coinciding with the artist’s 89th birthday); pre-orders are available beginning today HERE.  Imagined and curated by Benjamin Gibbard (lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of Death Cab for Cutie), Ocean Child: Songs […]

The Smile, the new group comprising Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood and Sons Of Kemet’s Tom Skinner, have today revealed their debut single ‘You Will Never Work In Television Again’.  The track, which is available now accompanied by a lyric video (dir. Duncan Loudon) was first heard in the band’s secret show as part of last year’s Glastonbury event Live At Worthy Farm. It is the first official […]

Guy Blue is a music project by Brooklyn-based songwriter and producer Jack Ladd. Ladd creates strangely danceable music by leaning into the fictive worlds we create for ourselves, drawing particular inspiration from the sonic and visual landscapes of 90s video games like Zelda and Pokémon that Ladd played during childhood. But rather than the melodic, […]

In the latest Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle offers his illustrated commentary on some of his favorite albums of 2021 in the first of two parts, in his signature six-panel comic strip form. Click on the image for full resolution (best viewed on desktop):

Widowspeak’s sixth studio album, The Jacket, is to be released March 11 via Captured Tracks. Along with the recent announcement, the duo (singer-songwriter Molly Hamilton and guitarist Robert Earl Thomas) share a song about shifting perspectives in increasingly complicated situations.  Sink into the sonic richness of “Everything is Simple” from Widowspeak that evolves into a dynamically shifting dream-pop nugget. […]

Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, performer, and musician Billy Strings will continue his extensive headline tour through the spring with newly confirmed shows at Las Vegas’ Brooklyn Bowl, San Diego’s Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theater, Houston’s 713 Music Hall, Austin’s Moody Amphitheater, Dallas’ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory, St. Augustine’s St. Augustine Amphitheatre (three nights) […]

Scott Metzger continually has been the consummate team player- always lending his fiery electric guitar work through a series of collaborations of bands that have included: RANA, Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, The Showdown Kids, WOLF! and Circles Around the Sun (for a brief period). Today Metzger has announced his debut album, Too Close To Reason, due March 4 […]

Last September we introduced the first of four Steven Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra’s (MT0) projects, Tinctures in Time. We now have the second installment, Good Time Music, featuring the captivating vocals of Catherine Russell, not only one of today’s best vocalists but an expert musicologist in this music, mostly rooted in New Orleans. Both Russell […]