Archive: 2020

“Nobody’s gonna save you. Nobody’s gonna make the way for you. Nobody thinks it matters what they say,” Canadian singer-songwriter Lynne Hanson sings in the title track off her new album, Just Words (due out February 7th), knowing full well that songs can actually do all of those things…and have, for her. From the jazz […]

With a voice that radiates ethereal mystery while staying grounded in guttural richness, Corinne Sharlet is singing her way into a bold new sonic world. Deceiver, Corinne’s debut solo EP due out February 7th, dives brazenly into a dark, warm ambience, transporting listeners to an expansive scenery where the narrator is as relatable as she […]

Gang of Four’s Andy Gill died today, aged 64, in a central London hospital after a short respiratory illness. He was the band’s co-founder, lead guitarist and mainstay through the band’s eras including’s 2019’s Happy Now. In pioneering the band’s sparse, jagged sound and looping feedback, Andy also inspired and informed generations of musicians. A […]

Brownout’s legendary status as a “Funk Powerhouse” (Stereogum) is a reputation well deserved. The band of musicians have an impressive resume performing with Prince (RIP), GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan, Bernie Worrell (RIP), and accolades from Ozzy Osbourne for their Brownout Presents: Brown Sabbath project. The latter helped grab the attention of Fat Beats Records, […]

The Psychedelic Furs have announced the long-awaited release of Made of Rain– the groundbreaking British band’s eighth studio album and first new LP in nearly three decades. Made of Rain arrives via Cooking Vinyl on Friday, May 1. MADE OF RAIN is heralded by the premiere of the album’s anthemic first single, “Don’t Believe,” (hear […]

Dan Deacon’s newest full-length release opens with “Become A Mountain” which contains the lyrics which are the true heart of this release: “I’m so lucky, yet I forget I’m still hungry for the future. On this day before me will I seize it or scroll? All of time is right here, is right now”. Mystic […]

Leslie Mendelson has announced her new studio album, If You Can’t Say Anything Nice… will be released April 17 via Royal Potato Family. The first single and title track is released today and can be heard below. Where Leslie’s previous work focused heavily on relationships and matters of the heart, this latest collection examines anxiety […]

SHEL is a band comprising four sisters: Sarah (bass, fiddle, vocals), Hannah (accordion, keys, vocals), Eva (lead vocals, guitar, banjo, cello, mandolin), and Liza Holbrook (percussion). The band is currently promoting a video for its single “Rainbow”. The video depicts women in India who have been exiled simply because they are widows who are outcast […]

Raised in the Swannanoa valley of Western North Carolina, multi-instrumentalist Reed Turchi is a producer, label head, band leader and solo artist. He’s also a master of guitar-driven blues that shapeshift seamlessly between acoustic slide, electric juke joint boogie, and the improvisational, groove-driven, massive sound of his Nashville-based Kudzu Orkestra. Featured in Rolling Stone, American […]

Mortimer is a reggae artist who gained some recognition when he appeared on the last two Protoje albums. It attracted enough recognition that he was able to work with Grammy-nominated producer Winta James. When Fight the Fight was released digitally, it debuted at #3 on the Billboard reggae chart and at #1 on the iTunes […]

A decent premise is wasted in this forgettable spy thriller.

Garcia Live Volume 12 offers some of, if not the most spirited, edgy performances yet released in this archival series. And while it’s not quite accurate to assign all the credit to vocalist Sarah Fulcher as the catalyst for this combustible content, it is no coincidence she is featured prominently in photos within the twelve-page […]

The fourth full-length offering from Brooklyn based artist TORRES (aka Mackenzie Scott) is her first self-produced effort and as she states, it is “the exact record I wanted to make”. The end product is a mix of confessional synth/art/pop numbers which can both challenge and sooth as Silver Tongue flows along.    The album opens with […]

One of roots music’s best bands returns as leader Eric Brace rounds up his bandmates in Last Train Home for the band’s tenth, perhaps most fully realized album on Daytime Highs and Overnight Lows. It’s quite a cast, numbering eleven with three additional guests. The three principals, Brace, bassist Jim Gray, and drummer Martin Lynds […]

FUZZ, comprised of Ty Segall (drums, vocals), Charles Moothart (guitar, vocals), and Chad Ubovich (bass, vocals), announces a North American tour – their first since winter 2015. The band will bring their rowdy live shows across the states, including three nights at Los Angeles’s Teragram Ballroom and to Chicago’s Thalia Hall, New York’s Bowery Ballroom and Music Hall of Williamsburg, and more. There will be additional FUZZ-related news in […]

The holiday spirit swept into the new decade as Nikki Glaspie put together an all-star cast for a memorable show on January 24, 2020, at The Mint in Los Angeles. Billed as “Peace Love and Funk – A Harold Robinson Foundation Benefit Concert,” Glaspie and friends joined together to help raise funds for the charity. […]

What happens when you strip away the technology and get back to the basics in the studio; real musicians and real instruments all recorded to real tape? This is something Atlanta-based singer-songwriter Steve Baskin aimed to find out as he approached Mind Your Step. Marking his fourth full-length album, it’s a soulful Americana offering that […]