When No Joy’s debut Ghost Blonde came out in 2010, the band was instantly championed as a welcome addition to the nu -gaze movement. On that album, No Joy was
Soprano and tenor saxophonist Teodross Avery with his ninth release as a leader, continues in his tradition of honoring jazz giants. Using two different quartets; the bandleader is joined by
The second part in Cold War Kids’ New Age Norms trilogy continues its pop flavor while dialing up the band’s danceable nature. Whereas Volume 1 was produced by singer Nathan
Back in 2004 Now Here Is Nowhere broke The Secret Machines onto the national scene with big retro stomping and laser-blasting futuristic space rock appeal. After a few albums of
The Nils Lofgren Band’s live album Weathered is not just a suitable companion piece to the leader’s 2019 release Blue With Lou, it’s an uncanny mirror image of that studio
As faithful readers of these pages know, this writer loves an intriguing back story, especially when the music measures up. Welcome to the story of Juni Ata, aka Jesse Daniel
Granted, most of you probably don’t know of Greg Copeland. If you do, you know that he’s a childhood friend and collaborator of Jackson Browne, or maybe that he wrote
When you spend enough time studying music, you learn that there are some unlikely stories of how bands came together. Blues Pills has as unlikely an origin story as any
Naked Giants follow one of the most exciting debut rock albums in recent memory, 2018’s Sluff, with a fierce collection of unrestrained rock that bangs heads and gets songs stuck
The adventurous, chameleon-like, affable Chicago pianist Johnny Iguana is finally making his blues debut as a leader. He’s been a sideman on countless Delmark albums and yes, he’s the same
