Archive: 2020

Wye Oak has shared the dystopian new song “No Place” from No Horizon EP featuring the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, out July 31 via Merge. “No Place” is the second song to arrive early from No Horizon, set for release on July 31 worldwide. Like the rest of the EP, the track was written for and […]

2018’s May Your Kindness Remain was singer-songwriter Courtney Marie Andrews’ breakout album. Old Flowers, her third for Fat Possum, surpasses that effort. Few albums come more highly anticipated. Every so often, writers like this one can be somewhat embarrassed to learn that Andrews had issued five albums prior to the 2018 stunner, which proved to […]

The Mother Hips will be releasing their second and third albums  Part-Timer Goes Full and Shoot Out to streamin services with Blue Rose Music & Universal Music. Released on the legendary Rick Rubin’s American Recordings in 1995 and 1996 respectively, these two beloved Hips albums captured the sound of a rock and roll movement that […]

Experimentalist supreme Bill Callahan will be returning with another round of his signature tunes on the LP Gold Record out September 4th via Drag City. Callahan’s latest offering, “Protest Song” details a singer-songwriter aghast at the unreality of the musical guest’s cartoonish protest POV on late night TV, leading to a protest song of its own […]

“I’m in my wardrobe.” Jon Anderson, the unmistakable voice of Yes, is having a dilemma when I call in for our interview. He can’t find a certain jacket and he needs it ASAP. “I have to wear it for making a video for a song from my new album. But I can’t find it,” he […]

Even the headline does not do Bill Kirchen justice. He’s forever associated with the guitar part on the Commander Cody & Lost Planet Airmen hit, “Hot Rod Lincoln,” a great tune for sure but one that pegged him immortally into the category of hot rockabilly guitarist and purveyor of trucking songs. Here on this collection […]

Billy Strings kicked off his Streaming Strings tour – a nine-show run of crowd-free virtual performances at various Nashville venues – from the Brooklyn Bowl Nashville last night. The two-set performance, Strings’ first public appearance since March 1st, featured material that ran the gamut from traditional to progressive and included a brief guest appearance from […]

Beautiful, lyrical, and in all ways horrific.

There have been many changes in Mike Dillon’s personal life recently and that has led to a self-described transitional album titled Rosewood via Royal Potato Family. Dillon moved from his longtime hometown of New Orleans to Kansas City and got married while recording. While those personal changes obviously had an influence on his style, it is […]

While avant-funk trio Medeski, Martin & Wood relegates itself to rare live appearances and records these days, native New Yorker Billy Martin aka  ‘illyB’  has kept a somewhat lower but hardly less prolific profile than his bandmates. Guilty is the latest product of his varied endeavors as composer, percussionist, visual artist, educator and record producer, […]

Drummer/composer Jeff Cosgrove uses his sixth album as a leader to celebrate the music of former collaborator, bassist/composer William Parker. On History Gets Ahead of the Story, the drummer offers a unique take on the bassist’s long-standing quartet repertoire by rearranging it for the classic organ trio. Saxophonist/flutist/composer Jeff Lederer (Matt Wilson Quartet and Bobby […]

The Texas Gentlemen – a flawless collective of Dallas-based musicians that have served as backing band to everyone from Kris Kristofferson to George Strait – recorded some of their latest LP Floor It!!!  in Muscle Shoals, Alabama at the legendary FAME studio. And damn those Swampers’ ghosts haunting that studio made sure their fingerprints were […]

Last night (7/15), My Morning Jacket performed “Spinning My Wheels” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The song is the first track on the band’s new album, The Waterfall II, available now at all DSPs. The Waterfall II will be released on CD and vinyl on August 28. Pre-orders, including both standard and deluxe versions featuring 180-gram […]

Pleased To Meet Me marks a significant turning point for The Replacements as they recorded as a trio and incorporate a more gentle approach to their songs where the brash wall filled with pop. The band will be issuing a Please to Meet Me deluxe edition on October 9th via Rhino. More than half of […]

Buried in just seven tracks on the debut album from TWO are crates and crates of musical inspiration. Everything from the obvious – alt and indie rock – to snatches of Depeche Mode-esque synth anthems and even folk. The band, comprised of Nico Vega vets Aja Volkman and Dan Epand, strips away a lot of the […]

Today, GRAMMY-nominated Black Pumas released The Electric Deluxe Sessions (Amazon Original), a new EP that features reimagined versions of their songs “Colors,” “Fire,” and “Know You Better,” along with a cover of the classic Jimmy Webb composition “Wichita Lineman” (originally made famous by Glen Campbell, The Meters, and others). The Electric Deluxe Sessions (Amazon Original) is available to stream and purchase […]

If talent alone summoned notoriety and financial success, Kenny Roby would be the Michael Stipe of his scene. The former lead singer of jangly alt-country outfit 6 String Drag, is due to release his new album The Reservoir on August 8th. The album is significant for many reasons, and the most interesting one is that […]