Billy Martin continues to explore the art of percussion, avant-garde and beyond with his eclectic Amulet Records label with illy B Eats Volume 2, This recording features a series of Martin made break beats and percussion samples intended for DJ use – appearing on both vinyl and disc.
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The latest from Tortoise – It’s All Around You -moves in slow transcendental fashion, with a swirling, new age psychedelic force that is hypnotic, but as a result carries non-stimulating results.
By making music out of a bit of everything, with the assistance of loops galore, TV On The Radio meld woozy break beats with cryptic energy that hits hard in the originality department.
Renee Lamoureux and Keith Macpherson, who make up the Canadian pop/rock duo Easily Amused, are passionate musicians. The two have performed nearly 400 shows over the past two years and have kept the bus rolling in 2004. For this, I salute them. For their latest record, Simple Stuff, I have many reservations.
Tim O’Brien has spent most of his life on the road. Thankfully, when he sets his hand to writing about travel, the result is a wonderful montage that captures both giddy fun and personal costs the road extracts.
With a handful of new musicians added since their last album five years ago, Leftover Salmon has returned with a more mature edge, that blends their unique bluegrass with new spicy ingredients.
Leave it up to a 19 year old from London, England to put out one of the very few albums in years to be true to the
