Acclaimed Maria Schneider’s Jazz Orchestra Pits The Digital World vs. The Natural on ‘Data Lords’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
Simply said, put your music where your mouth is. Grammy-winner composer, bandleader, and recently named NEA Jazz Master Maria Schneider has been increasingly outspoken about Google and big data companies, writing articles and white papers, appearing on Copyright Office roundtables and testifying before Congress. Schneider says, “Musicians have been the canary in the coal mine. […]
Six 80’s/90’s Official MTV Jamband Videos You Might Have Missed
Since improvisational rock came into fruition over 50 years ago, the “jamband” genre has ultimately become defined by the live music experience. While a majority of today’s popular-music industry measures success based on album sales and various social media-centric stats, bands such as The Grateful Dead, Phish, & Widespread Panic honed their chops on the […]
Charlie Musselwhite, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Jimbo Mathus, the Late Jim Dickinson, Luther Dickinson/Cody Dickinson = New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers
Stony Plain Records announces a September 4 release date for the first volume of music from roots “super group,” New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers: Charlie Musselwhite, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Jimbo Mathus, the late Jim Dickinson, and North Mississippi Allstars members Luther Dickinson and Cody Dickinson. Recorded at the Zebra Ranch Recording Studio in Coldwater, […]
Five Essential Casino Music Venues
Hit the music! The most notable gigs held in casino venues Music is a vital part of life and a great way to relax when not busy with work or family. Of course, you can also get more from music by going along to gigs by artists or bands you love. Even if a group […]
LISTEN: To “Scarlet” – That Time The Rolling Stones Recorded With Jimmy Page
The Rolling Stones have released a previously unheard and never before released “Scarlet”, a track recorded by the Stones in October 1974 featuring Jimmy Page and Rick Grech. The previously unreleased track follows the huge success and acclaim of the Stones’ “Living In A Ghost Town” and will feature on the upcoming September 4 multi-format release of Goats […]
FUZZ (Feat. Ty Segall) Announce New Album, ‘III’, Out 10/23
FUZZ, the raw power trio comprised of Los Angeles-based Ty Segall (drums, vocals), Charles Moothart (guitar, vocals), and Chad Ubovich (bass, vocals), announce their first album in five years, III, out October 23rd on In The Red Recordings. It’s the follow-up to 2015’s II, “an impressive double album made for headbanging and the cultivation of bad vibes” (NPR Music). In conjunction with today’s announcement, the […]
Dawes Announce New LP – Dave Cobb Produced ‘Good Luck Whatever’ Out 10/2
Dawes have announced the release of their extraordinary new album. The Los Angeles-based band’s seventh studio LP, Good Luck Whatever arrives via Rounder Records on Friday, October 2; pre-orders are available now. Produced by 6x GRAMMY® Award-winner Dave Cobb (Chris Stapleton, Brandi Carlile, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit) at Nashville’s famed RCA Studio A, […]
LISTEN: Bruce Hornsby Tackles Race In America On “Bright Star Cast” Feat Jamila Woods
Finding inspiration from The New York Times Magazine’s “1619 Project,” James Weldon Johnson’s “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” as well as the work of historian Taylor Branch, Grammy-award winning pianist, singer and songwriter Bruce Hornsby debuts “Bright Star Cast.” The song features vocals from Chicago-based Jamila Woods, guitar from Vernon Reid (Living Colour) and several of his new musician […]
WATCH: Delicate Steve Shares Hypnotizing “Green” Sonoran Desert Solo Video
Taking the phrase “social distancing” to heart, Delicate Steve recently filmed the music video to his new song “Green”completely alone in the Sonoran desert using drones. “Green” is the second in a trio of new singles Delicate Steve will release this summer. Watch his desolate desert performance below. “I chose to film thisin the desert […]
Happy 79th Birthday to Dr. Funkenstein: George Clinton (Watch “Do That Stuff” Live
LISTEN: H.C. McEntire Shares Adventurous Americana Track “Final Bow”
H.C. McEntire doesn’t write lyrics; she writes poetry. Growing up in the tiny rural community of Green Creek, outside Tryon, North Carolina, she knows how to tell a story. Ahead of Wednesday evening’s online performance, McEntire is serving a second slice of her new album Eno Axis (out August 21). On her new song“Final Bow,” she […]
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Presents Live Stream With Los Lobos
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass will be presenting a live stream on July 25th at 4 pm PT with Los Lobos. The Grammy award-winners have a rich history with Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, having played the festival in 2007, 2013, 2015 and 2018. “After months of lockdown, Los Lobos is honored and happy to report we will be […]
Lydia Loveless Announces New LP ‘Daughter’ Out 9/25/20, Shares First Single “Love Is Not Enough”
Lydia Loveless today announced her new album Daughter will be released on September, 25th, 2020, via her new label Honey, You’re Gonna Be Late Records. She has also shared the chiming lead single “Love Is Not Enough” alongside its video, directed by herself and Michael Casey. Daughter–her first album in four years–marks the triumphant return of Loveless, and documents […]
Billy Strings Makes Network Television Debut With “Taking Water” & “Watch It Fall”
Billy Strings made his network television debut last night when he performed “Taking Water”, from his 2019 LP Home, on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Strings, along with his musical cohorts Billy Failing (banjo), Jarrod Walker (mandolin) & Royal Masat (bass), recorded the segment in front of an empty house at Nashville’s Station Inn where Strings was […]
SONG PREMIERE: Toronto Breakout Artist Tali Delivers Luminescent “”(Don’t) Wanna Be Yours” Off ‘Shadows’ EP
Toronto singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Tali shows a charismatic prowess and relentless creative flair akin to Tove Lo and Lorde that has garnered her a well-earned buzz about. Her debut EP ‘Shadows’ is set for release on September, 11th. Shadows tells of a particular evolution and growth for Tali and plays to the transition from adolescence […]
LISTEN: Ben Harper and Rhiannon Giddens Collaborate on Nick Drake’s “Black Eyed Dog”
Collaborating for the first time, Ben Harper and Rhiannon Giddens have released a new duet of the Nick Drake song“Black Eyed Dog.” Featuring Harper on lap steel and Giddens on banjo, the track is certainly as stark and fragile as Drake was. Listen to the track below… “Rhiannon and I are both black purveyors of […]
30 Years Ago Today- Rogers Waters Performs The Wall at Former Berlin Wall (Watch “Comfortably Numb”)
Screenwriter/Bluesman John Fusco Connects Worlds of Mississippi and Vermont on Double LP ‘John the Revelator’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
Bluesman John Fusco basks in dichotomies. One is occupational as he is both an acclaimed filmmaker and a recording musical artist. For the latter, he works in two distinct locales, or worlds – deep in the Mississippi Delta and in the pastoral beauty of his home state, Vermont. Yet, the musical dichotomy has never revealed […]
Well Decorated Singer-Songwriter Lori McKenna Draws on Personal Stories for ‘The Balladeer’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
Until relatively recently lifelong Massachusetts resident Lori McKenna was known mainly as a songwriter for the bigger country music stars even though she’s had a long-running solo career. She still has major momentum delivering hit songs but her reputation as a solo artist, now with her tenth release, keeps strengthening with the success of 2016’s […]
WATCH: 80’s Era Grateful Dead Hype Up New Nike SB Dunk Low Grateful Dead Sneakers
The Grateful Dead has always been the opposite of pitchmen – going for the long-winded vs the accessible. In fact, it wasn’t till 1987’s “Touch of Grey” where they got any type of significant mainstream radio of MTV play. The band in conjunction with Nike will be releasing “Nike SB Dunk Low Grateful Dead” sneakers. […]