Archive: 2020

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Warner Music [Sony Music outside Europe] today announced the upcoming release of Pink Floyd’s ‘Delicate Sound Of Thunder’ on Blu-ray, DVD, 2-CD, 3-disc vinyl and deluxe 4-disc edition with bonus tracks, on November 20, 2020. Across the various different formats, the release of Delicate Sound Of Thunder encapsulates a band at their best. Alongside the classic live album and full […]

Paul Cauthen & Orville Peck have released their debut as The Unrighteous Brothers today via digital retailers. Their collaboration finds the pair covering the legendary Righteous Brothers smash hits “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling” and “Unchained Melody,” which were produced by Beau Bedford & Butch Walker and recorded at the legendary RCA Studio A in […]

Bruce Springsteen has released “Ghosts” from his new album Letter To You, out October 23rd on Columbia Records. The new song arrives with a video that includes clips of the E Street Band tracking Letter To You in-studio, interspersed with archival snapshots of Springsteen’s earliest years as a musician in local bands like The Castiles. […]

It was just two years ago that New York City’s Arsun was praised by media as the “New York teen resurrecting vintage rock.” And he’s not the first to have earned that nod, that’s for sure. But if quality over quantity means anything in this young song slinger’s career, that its time to take notice. […]

For the past 15 years, Austin outfit The Band Of Heathens have embraced a satisfying ethos of “trends be damned, do what feels right.” And they’ve managed to do it mostly on their own, self-releasing their own records and playing a decidedly unique brand of Americana that draws from Blues, Folk, Country and Classic Rock. […]

Montreal native Kim Bingham is a true journeywoman of music and has been apart of various projects beginning with her career in third-wave ska band Me Mom and Morgentaler, formed in 1990. Kim recorded three works: ‘Clown Heaven and Hell’ EP (1991), ‘Shiva Space Machine’ (1993) and Live ‘We Are Revolting: Live & Obscure 1990-1994’ […]

2017’s underrated Rock n Roll Consciousness melded Thurston Moore’s downtown noise-rock core to a positive ray of 60’s experimental sunshine, while last year’s Spirit Counsel pushed past free jazz-inspired boundaries in an elongated yet successful fashion. His newest offering, By the Fire builds upon those recent albums highpoints as well as the artist’s vast musical […]

Grammy-winning bassist, composer, and all-round jazz impresario Christian McBride has already released one stunning album this year with his major opus paying tribute to Civil Rights leaders on The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons, reviewed on these pages. Now McBride brings us another poignant effort, featuring his Grammy-winning big band ((CMBB’s third release) […]

In the past month, much has been abuzz about Charlie Parker’s centennial birthday. Arguably one of Bird’s foremost disciples in carrying on the bebop tradition has been alto saxophonist and composer Charles McPherson, now an octogenarian. Yet, as the headline indicates this is a vastly different kind of project for McPherson who records his groundbreaking […]

Ionic hip-hop duo Atmosphere drops a mind-bending music video, “Blotter Acid Reflux Syndrome,” heralding the release of their latest studio album The Day Before Halloween, due out, appropriately, on October 30. Directed by Jason Goldwatch, the music video veers towards the unsettling with psychedelics, brain surgery, and a nod to the infamous Cold War-era MK-Ultra program. From the outset, […]

Kevin Morby has released two new singles, “Don’t Underestimate Midwest American Sun” and “Wander” (with an accompanying video), from his forthcoming album, Sundowner, out October 16th on Dead Oceans. Following lead single “Campfire,” “Don’t Underestimate Midwest American Sun” strolls with acoustic guitar, subtly expanding with a muted, percussive beat and simplistic keys. The track documents two people […]

Craft Recordings has announced a deluxe CD edition of Come Go With Me: The Stax Collection. The acclaimed box set, which was previously released on vinyl digital formats, celebrates one of music’s greatest gospel and soul groups, The Staple Singers. Available for pre-order today, and set for a November 13th release, Come Go With Me presents all of the group’s studio albums […]

There are those of us who question the depth of our own constructed realities and the limits of time and space that can be stretched into slender and brittle opinions. Opinions forged in insecurity, fear, and isolation. As domesticated realities thrive, the truth of our vast existence and our sharing of space with dissimilar dimensions […]

Ryan And Pony is a brand-new project from two indie-rockers who have been kicking around the much-vaunted Minneapolis music scene for years. Their debut album Moshi Moshi was recorded at a variety of Minneapolis studios including Flight Simulator, Flowers, Master Mix, and The Kill Room with Ryan producing. John Fields mixed and Greg Reierson mastered […]

Yves Jarvis, the moniker for Canadian musician Jean-Sébastien Audet has already been attached to two stellar albums going into 2020. Now, Jarvis is set to release his third album under that name, Sundry Rock Song Stock. Unlike last year’s, The Same But By Different Means and 2017’s Good Will Come to You Jarvis’ new album […]

Prior to the breakthrough that occurred following the release of the Allman Brothers Band’s At Fillmore East, the seminal Southern sextet relied on word-of-mouth from their relentless touring schedule to spread the word about its music. Its first two studio recordings were admirable pieces of work to be sure, but neither achieved any commercial significance […]

Justin Farren was born and raised in Sacramento, where he lives in a house built with his own two hands – or as he likes to refer to it, “a living museum of my own mistakes”. Justin‘s twin brother is a yellow truck named Yellow. Two round trips from California to Alaska, infinite dead-end, soul-sucking jobs and god knows how […]