Archive: 2019

With his last album Branches of the Same Tree, Rocky Dawuni earned a Grammy nomination for best reggae album. It’s too early to say if he will earn another nomination for his new album Beats of Zion, although it wouldn’t be surprising. This is an album filled with bright melodies, tight rhythms, and lyrics that […]

Robyn visited St. Paul’s Palace Theatre on 3/5/19 in support her most recent solo album Honey. Photos by Billy Briggs.

Grab some tissues and get comfortable.

Back for her second solo album, powerhouse vocalist Sarah Potenza is intent on empowering women and, for that matter, all of us, on her Road to Rome. It follows her bluesy 2016 debut, Monster, where she received raves from blues and roots lovers. The emboldened Potenza now delivers an album with even stronger messaging as […]

Up until just a few years ago, Leo Bud Welch was living in a disheveled shack in Mississippi’s Hill County without plumbing or electricity as depicted in the documentary Late Blossom Blues, chronicling Welch’s life. It was released last Spring and has been highly awarded by three prestigious organizations. At age 81, Welch released his […]

Brie Larson shines in an otherwise rote origin story.

Paul Weller’s Other Aspects is certainly an understatement of a title. Live At The Royal Festival Hall comes from two October 2018 concerts the one-time titular leader of The Jam performed with an orchestra at the prestigious London venue. The second of the shows was recorded and filmed to feature upwards of twenty-four musicians, from […]

Bumbasee, the first solo project by LA-based producer Alex Tirheimer, is reactionary to the rules that music is supposed to follow. After a series of late-night sessions with no intention other than to create, a sound began to emerge. A refreshing but also unrefined vibe that felt aggressive but with an endearing smirk. This music […]

Don’t let the big guns distract you, there are some great smaller films you need to see at this year’s SXSW.