Perhaps more than any other artist of the last 60 years Dr. John was the New Orleans sound, bringing it to the masses as Louis Armstrong did before him. With
A kleptocracy is defined as a government comprised of leaders who exploit their people and natural resources; Kleptokrat embodies a benign representation of this dynamic. The band’s crime is a
After fifty years of making music, James Taylor has become one of the best-selling artists of all time. In 1970 he had his breakthrough with the song “Fire and Rain”,
A slightly more tuneful counterpart to Time Fades Away, Neil Young’s Tuscaloosa sounds markedly slightly less startling than that record, especially with hindsight on the infamous ‘Ditch Trilogy” of the
One gets the impression that a musician in need of a song or two could give Gary Nicholson a call and have a response the very next day, maybe even
This collaboration between two giants could likely only happen live in a special setting to produce the drama and improvisation contained in The Brown Beatnik Tomes – Live at BRIC.
Sad news today in the world of jazz, funk and all around good music as the world lost Dr. John who passed away today (6/6/19) at age 77 from a
Whitney, the Chicago-based band led by vocalist/drummer Julien Ehrlich and guitarist Max Kakacek, will release their sophomore album, Forever Turned Around, on August 30th via Secretly Canadian. On the follow up to their much-beloved debut,
The heated pop and slap of congas that opens the title track of Santana’s Africa Speaks conjure memories of the vintage likes of 1970’s atmospheric Abraxas, a favorable impression that
Twenty-One Pilots brought their Bandito Tour back to NYC, this time headlining Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on June 4th. When the house lights dimmed, a cacophony of screams pushed like a
