Archive: 2020

The music of Tel-Aviv’s RGB goes around the spectrum of Neo-Soul music, combining it with elements from the worlds of R&B, Jazz, and Pop. With their common passion for romance, the band creates music that is full of feelings and honesty, highlighting the pain and sadness in life on one side and the loveliness of […]

Bob Weir and Wolf Bros will broadcast a special performance this New Year’s Eve on FANS from Weir’s own TRI Studios. Tickets start at $19.99 and there are packages that include merchandise-  get tickets and special merch bundles HERE. The show begins at 10p.m. EST with a 10 p.m. PST rebroadcast to follow. “We’re back and we’re here to light y’all up,” Weir says of the performance.4 […]

I was a Stones/Zeppelin/Beatles kid but in 1978 I heard a song called “Strange Way” on the radio that perked up my ears. It was catchy, it was rock-y, it was prog-y. I went and immediately bought the album, Elan, and tried to find out more about this band called Firefall. Well, it seems they […]

What if longtime friends Jim Brunberg and Ben Landsverk came clean about the fact that their bevy of instrumental theme songs and film soundtracks—including the New York Times’ famed podcast The Daily, Cheryl Strayed’s Dear Sugar Radio, and many indie film scores—were only half of the story? Well, there’s no need to get rhetorical, because […]

It’s an odd choice to release an album at the tail end of any year after most publications have already published their best-of lists. Add a pandemic ton top of that and it seems crazy that any band would want to release a new album. For Cooper Trail and his project Desolation Horse, these factors […]

What would have been a big tenth anniversary year for the London-based Ska Punk band Buster Shuffle has been mediated by the difficulties of 2020, but the party goes ahead in the form of a fully remixed and remastered edition of the band’s first widely released album, Our Night Out, coming to vinyl for the […]

As much as That Which Colors The Mind may present a test of listening patience, it offers ample rewards for the exercise. On this double CD, just two selections, Indian ragas both, comprise slightly more than one-hundred twenty-minutes of a sophisticated demonstration of musical dynamics. Surprise of surprises perhaps, this exhibition isn’t altogether dissimilar from […]

Apart from hitting the jackpot, many gamers visit the casino to be entertained by the sound, themes, and characters. Now, casino designers have introduced funny characters to attract more players. You can identify these characters by their costumes, facial expressions, and colors. There are a plethora of online casinos where you can play free online […]

Most of 2020 has been a disappointing heap of cancellations, curfews and COVID. For music lovers, it has been especially difficult because of the absence of live performances. Some of us still can’t bring ourselves to throw away the tickets to those cancelled shows. For Belle and Sebastian, plans to tour as well as plans […]

GNL Zamba is an artist from Uganda who grew up with the sounds of Fela Kuti, Ice Cube, and Gil Scott Heron, all of whom were played on the radio when he was growing up. It may be hard to imagine a sound that incorporates such disparate influences, but that is exactly what GNL Zamba […]

Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release That’s Life—Willie Nelson’s new studio album (and 15th for the label)–on Friday, February 26. Honoring the enduring influence and inspiration of Frank Sinatra (whose 105th birthday would have been celebrated on December 12), That’s Life continues Willie’s longtime musical appreciation of Sinatra’s artistry and repertoire, […]

T. Evann is a new project from producer and songwriter Tyler Darrington. Having been in various collaborative projects, Darrington began writing material that was solely his own under T. Evann. Without determining a plan for the material, he built a catalog over the course of a year. It was a year of pivotal life experiences that he has tried to render and communicate in his […]

The personal project of 24-year-old Dutch artist Lieke Heusinkveld, la loye is distinguished by subtle, layered vocals and intricate guitars, sublimely complimenting each other to create an inmate ambiance and accentuate the poetic lyricism in her music. Inspired by the work of artists such as Elliot Smith, Mount Eerie, Radiohead, and Big Thief, la loye’s […]

It might be the closest thing to a Kickpuncher feature film we’ll ever get

With the pandemic and quarantine lockdowns bringing most live music and touring to a screeching halt, Soundgarden/Pearl Jam drummer Matt Cameron and Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins used the downtime to explore new music and create a new project. The two multi-talented songwriter/drummers have unveiled their collaboration, Nighttime Boogie Association, by releasing two songs that they […]

The ‘Fast Color’ director brings her genre subverting expertise to the crime thriller in her latest film.

Annie DiRusso is a Nashville and New York City-based indie-rock artist who wears the influence of her two cities on her sleeve. She seamlessly blends garage rock and high energy performance art with a pop-informed Nashville flair. DiRusso is currently at work on her debut album, due to be released tentatively in late 2021. DiRusso shares a catchy and self-assured Courtney Barnett sounding indie-rock gem on […]

Raised in rural Melissa, Texas, Jackson Scribner grew up obsessed with music from an early age. He learned guitar when he was only nine and spent countless hours playing alongside his Dad and brothers at family gatherings. Being that the virtuosic player is only twenty years old, that doesn’t feel all that long ago. Only […]

A band born of friendship, and undeniably built in Chicago, Young Man in a Hurry reimagines all the lo-fi substantive sounds of their 80s and 90s youth in a kind of post-modern millennial séance. The group sprung from a patient/doctor relationship between songwriter and frontman Matt Baron and drummer Meyer Horn. The band evolved into […]