Archive: 2020

For a musician, there’s nothing like the feeling of a band coming together: the camaraderie, the creative mating of musical ideas, the grooves falling in all the right places. For the Allman Betts Band, that bond has solidified on their second release, Bless Your Heart. Coming a year after their debut, Down To The River, […]

While attending art school in Baltimore, Dan Blakeslee, a native of Maine discovered that he had an equal and deeply rooted connection to music. Blakeslee would sneak into the galleries to play his guitar through the late hours of the evening surrounded by easels and oil paintings. Through prolific artistic output and hard work, Dan […]

Josh Fudge is an 18-year-old singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist from Oklahoma City. In March of 2020, Fudge started releasing music on the internet independently, and by surprise he quickly found himself landing on numerous high-profile playlists. His debut record is expected to release early next year. Fudge delivers with an uncomplicated serenity on “There She Goes,” a delightful and beguiling new break up song. […]

Grace Gillespie is a London-based artist and producer originally from Devon, who spent much of 2017 touring as part of the live line-up for 4AD’s Pixx. In 2019 Grace released her debut EP Pretending, Gillespie’s sound takes influences from the folk, alternative, and dream-pop traditions, providing a backdrop to her intriguing vocal melodies, shifting harmonies, […]

Hailing from Portland, Maine, theWorst have found post-punk sublimity on their new single “Yes Regrets.” Lead singer/guitarist Brooke Binion has a deep sense of melodic mantra and honest emotion. Submerged in a beefy and warm bath of drums and bass, Binion illuminates the track, navigating with finesse and robust attitude. The track also features the […]

Raised in the grey anywhere of Greater London, Luca Wilding never played an instrument in his youth. It was a family tradition of gunslinger ballads and time-old story-singalongs, and his eventual love for Leonard Cohen, that spurred him to begin songwriting. Inspired later by a mixtape gifted to him by his supportive schoolteacher, he set out to […]

Vern Matz is often described as a bunch of hooligan folk-rockers who stand opposed to brunch culture. Mixing the edge between the angular and aching, Vern Matz offers up a punctuating sound via“Second Step” (below). The self-proclaimed Hi-fi DIY group creates a luscious bed of tone and color with ripping bass lines and distorted guitars […]

Maria Maita-Keppeler aka MAITA was ready for a breakout year in 2020. The recent Kill Rock Stars signee had assembled a great team and was sitting on her impressive label debut record Best Wishes. Preparing for a long year of touring – suddenly (as we all know) – everything was put on hold. For bands […]

Given Bill Evans’ iconic status in contemporary jazz, it should come as no surprise there’s been no shortage of posthumous releases since he passed in 1980. Evans In England and Live at Art D’Lugoff’s Top of The Gate are among those to precede Live at Ronnie Scott’s, the fifth such issue of unreleased music and […]

Dope Lemon is the beloved side project of Angus Stone, one part of the internationally renowned folk sibling duo Angus & Julia Stone. Known for his captivating voice and relaxing energy, Dope Lemon hit the ground running with several successful releases in 2019, most notably his Smooth Big Cat album. Dope Lemon continues to impress with […]

Montreal-based Rosier formerly known as Les Poules A Colin – pushes further exploration of the connections between Québec folk and the mix of indie, jazz, pop, bluegrass and contemporary styles. The group’s five members immerse us in their universe through original compositions, sophisticated arrangements, harmonic progressions, and reinvented traditions. The bilingual band injects exuberant color […]

Saying that Alex Maas has had a huge hand in the modern psych rock movement is by no means an overstatement. Besides fronting the Austin-based psych rock band The Black Angels and collaborating with artists like UNKLE and Mothman, he also cofounded the creative collective The Reverberation Appreciation Society. This collective is responsible for the […]

Eyehategod have set a March 12 release date for the band’s first new full-length album in seven years, A History of Nomadic Behavior. The album news arrives with a visualizer for “High Risk Trigger” a taste of what’s to come on the 12-song album. The song debuted yesterday on SiriusXM’s Liquid Metal, hosted by Jose […]

Israel Nash is gearing up to release his resplendent album Topaz on March 12. The follow-up to his 2018 release Lifted, Nash recorded the candid, textured album at Plum Creek Sound, his studio assembled from an old quonset hut near his home in the Texas Hill Country. Topaz marks the first album Nash has recorded […]

Thomas Vinterberg and Mads Mikkelsen reunite for this powerful, hilarious, and poignant examination of alcohol.

David Fincher resurrects Old Hollywood in his first film in six years.

It’s been seven years since Sigur Rós’ last studio album, Kveikur, and in that time the band has remained notoriously quiet. While it seemed unlikely that any of the group’s members would be producing any music amongst the worldwide lockdown, we still managed to get a new album from lead singer and guitarist Jónsi Birgisson and something […]

Brooklyn transplant (by way of the White Mountains of Arizona) Charles Ellsworth will be releasing his latest studio album Honeysuckle Summer on March 5th, 2021. Just as the pandemic was taking seed around the country earlier this year, the singer-songwriter managed to recruit several musicians from the Brooklyn music scene – including Jared Schapker (Grandpa […]