Archive: 2020

On Monday,Bruce Hornsby performed his track “My Resolve” with James Mercer on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” as part of their #PlayAtHome series. Check out the performance below.. The song appears on Hornsby’s latest album, Non-Secure Connection, which is out now to widespread critical praise both stateside and abroad. The album continues Hornsby’s recent musical reinvention, where he’s […]

Today (9/8) marks what would have been the 75th birthday of original Grateful Dead keyboardist and co-founding member Ron “Pigpen” McKernan who entered the world on September 8, 1945, in San Bruno, CA. A true musical badass in every sense of the word, Pigpen, simply put, was the blues. He personified the timeless genre with […]

International advocacy organization Global Citizen and voter registration organization HeadCount today announced the launch of the Just Vote campaign to engage young Americans to check their status, register, and vote in November and elections beyond. The non-partisan campaign aims to engage one million young voters and get 50,000 young people registered ahead of the 2020 elections. The Just Vote campaign will engage and […]

In Suds & Sounds we turn the spotlight on breweries, focusing on the role of music in that brewery’s history, packaging, tastes, and in its city or town as a whole. The idea is to get beer and music lovers to connect with a side of the brewery that may often go overlooked, but one that we think […]

Megan Benavente is a familiar face to avid attendees of shows in the indie and punk rock scenes over the last several years. Working as a Front of House Engineer at LA’s legendary The Troubadour, Benavente has taken her skills as an engineer on the road with the likes of Manchester Orchestra, Kevin Devine, and […]

Cobra Man describes their style as “Los Angeles Power Disco,” but your reaction might be, “wtf -wasn’t the ’70s revival in the ’90s?” Well, hang on for a sec…. Creative honcho Andy Harry began writing and producing music for the Worble skate crew videos in 2016. After the release of “Manramp” Harry enlisted singer Sarah […]

Artemis, the multi-generational, multi-cultural, all-female jazz aggregation of seven of today’s top modern jazz musicians, is already somewhat known but are making their Blue Note debut with this self-titled effort. The band has been featured in Vanity Fair and on Jazz Night in America; and has performed at Carnegie Hall and at the Newport Jazz […]

Healthy Junkies’ first single off their new album Forever on the Road takes their unique brand of punk and brash alternative to a new level of adventurous musical mayhem. The album was made during the recent pandemic and quarantine as reflections of recent tours and life beyond the road offering a compelling record more akin […]

For those who thought Joe Bonamassa’s debut album, A New Day Yesterday in 2000, was the second coming of the blues, you have just been served an almost pure perfection update with A New Day Now to celebrate its 20th anniversary. With it, Bonamassa has done something so rare, which is to actually make a […]

Considering the absolutely unadulterated insanity that is 2020, it seemed appropriate that the long-awaited return to live music would occur in a gravel parking lot located in the South Philadelphia Sports Complex that typically plays host to the Phillies, Eagles & Sixers. And so, last Friday evening on September 4th, thousands of adventurous fans of […]

Conceived in the 1980s in Mexico and brought to California through the border inside of his 6-month-pregnant mother, Rudy de Anda is releasing his debut solo record, Tender Epoch (September 18 via Karma Chief Records), a love letter to the long historical lineage of rock ’n’ roll music as interpreted through his multicultural lens. “I […]

Every Monday for the last ten weeks, Bill Callahan has steadily been rolling out the for his new LP Gold Record.  One by one, Bill gave listeners the chance to really connect with each intimate song, many of these songs were recorded in one take. Less than a year ago, Callahan released his 20-song double […]

Never as epic as it wants to be, Mulan is still Disney’s best live action remake.

Nina Yates is a Portland, Oregon based singer songwriter who pulls you into her stories with thoughtful and distinctive songs. A slow, tender and delicate drag, yet fierce with lived emotion, the wisdom of a mother, the comfort of a sister and the heartbreak of a daughter. It didn’t occur to Yates to start writing […]

For better or worse, Grant-Lee Phillips‘ solo career has been heavily defined by a certain brand of easy going acoustic singer-songwriterisms. As predictably as those embracing his band, the more biting Grant Lee Buffalo, in the 90’s – eventually grew older and embraced the Wilcos and Nationals in their middle age, so too did Phillips […]

Coming on the heels of their well received 2018 release ATW, All Them Witches experienced some changes and opportunities. For their follow up Nothing as the Ideal, the group has reconfigured as a trio (gone is keyboardist Jonathan Draper) and they were also were able to record at the legendary Abbey Road Studios’ Studio Two. […]

James Lee Baker is another thoughtful, relatively unknown singer-songwriter making an impact lately. But this is much more  than just another effort. The CD has an enclosed detailed booklet with artwork, background, and lyrics for each song, some 45 pages in total. In other words, we have almost too much information for a review, so […]