Archive: 2020

Today, Low Cut Connie released the new single “Help Me” accompanied by censored and uncensored versions of the official music video. Adam Weiner self-directed the video and explains, “We had big plans for the video, an elaborate dance piece. But quarantine changed the deal. It became a no-frills, anti-production piece. Naked in every sense of […]

While studies have been conducted aiming to understand the science behind music, our inexplicable ability to tap into the emotions of another human being by way of arrangements of sonic frequencies still seems a bit like magic. LA’s Death Valley Girls have always sought to wield that magic like ancient mystics, creating psychic bonds with […]

Jordan Caiola (CAI•OLA) is a songwriter/musician/producer based out of Philadelphia. He founded the indie rock band Mo Lowda & The Humble in 2010 and due to its intense touring schedule, the band became his main priority along with his side project NightSeason (founded 2016) – an indie/electro-pop producer duo. Though he always felt writing folk […]

Lambchop returns with Trip a new covers LP out November 13, 2020, on Merge in North America (City Slang for rest of world). Listen to their epic take on Wilco’s “Reservations” now, and pre-order TRIP today on CD, LP, and coke-bottle clear Peak Vinyl, the latter packaged with a limited-edition blotter paper print. Grimey’s in Nashville is also selling […]

Daptone Records proudly announces Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Rendition Was In), a batch of previously unheard material by Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, out digitally October 23rd. The compilation includes five never-before-heard covers and other fan favorites that have been previously released in various formats — many of them iconic numbers, including lead single “Signed Sealed Delivered I’m Yours“, […]

Stephen Malkmus presents “Juliefuckingette,” an A-side-worthy B-side off of the “rich, dynamic, and pleasantly warm” (New Yorker) Traditional Techniques, his album released earlier this year on Matador. Additionally, he announces a rescheduled North American tour. As with Traditional Techniques, “Juliefuckingette” is new phase folk music for new phase folks. Malkmus’ wry lyricism unwinds over his 12-string acoustic guitar: “Abolish the […]

Award-winning singer/songwriter, producer, engineer, multi-instrumentalist, and comedian, Angus Gill has never been one to blend in. From humble beginnings as a 10-year old entertaining crowds at a popular heritage theme park in his hometown of Wauchope, to opening for the legendary Kris Kristofferson and becoming one of the youngest Australians to perform on the Grand […]

We baby boomers grew up with that indelible chorus “’Cause that is no way to get along,” from the tune “Prodigal Son,” written by the Reverend Robert Wilkins and popularized by The Rolling Stones on Beggars Banquet. Heck, that was over a half century ago. They say that things have a way of repeating themselves […]

Jeff Tweedy announces his new album, the “beautifully honest ode to love and hope,” Love Is The King, out digitally October 23rd on dBpm Records (physical release date forthcoming). It’s the follow-up to 2018’s WARM and 2019’s WARMER, and comes on the heels of Tweedy’s second book, How To Write One Song, out October 13th via Penguin Random House’s Dutton. Today, Tweedy releases two singles […]

Despite taking $207 million at the international box office, Tenet is looking less like the savior theaters were hoping for.

Hot on the heels of last year’s Malcolm Burn-produced Strange Perfume, Stephen Clair and his trio arrive just in time to reignite your summer on September 18th with the brand new 11-song album The Small Hours. Recorded at the beginning of 2020 in Upstate NY, a minute before all hell broke loose, this is the […]

On Saturday, September 12th, a group of friends braved adverse conditions and came together outside of Portland, Oregon to celebrate the birthday of a longtime fan of Jerry Joseph. Joseph brought along his band, The Jackmormons, as well as a couple of guest musicians to play two full sets of music. Poor air quality and […]

Gitkin is the alter ego of Brian J. of Pimps of Joytime. That may give you some idea of the sound of the new Gitkin album Safe Passage, or it may not. After all, he calls his music Outernational Psychedelic Twang, which is not only a mouthful, but also hard to envision without hearing it. […]

If there was ever a predestined pairing, this might be it as blues singer-songwriter-guitarist Lloyd Jones, who hails from Portland, OR lands in keyboardist/producer Kevin McKendree’s Rock House studio in Franklin, TN for Tennessee Run, which features Delbert McClinton’s band and a few other Nashville cats. Delbert duets with Jones on “Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool,” the […]

The Avalanches’ new album, We Will Always Love You, will be released by Astralwerks on December 11. An exploration of the vibrational relationship between light, sound and spirit, it doubles as an examination of the human voice and a spiritual reckoning via the big questions: Who are we really? What happens when we die? The […]

Back in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the music scene was inundated by teen idols and swoonable dreamboat singers. It was before the Beatles but after Elvis. And songs were finger-snapping pop hits that the kids could dance to at sock hops and play on little record players in bedrooms across the nation. It […]

Based out of Philadelphia, PA, Mighty Joe Castro and the Gravamen is the latest musical project from accomplished collage artist and musician Joe Castro (ex-The Situation, The Lift Up). Heavily influenced by rockabilly, ’50s rock-n-roll and doo-wop, the band takes that vintage rock and roll sound but updates it with a modern lyrical approach and […]

Brad Brooks, beloved in the Bay Area as one of its finest vocalists and songwriters, released Harmony of Passing Light in 2012, drew comparisons to Elvis Costello, Wilco, and others, had planned to head right back into the studio to record an immediate, even more, ambitious follow-up. Instead, he found himself fighting for his life. […]