Archive: 2021

This past Black Friday’s Record Store Day saw a limited-edition clear vinyl of the archival recording of legendary folk singer Fred Neil, entitled 38 McDougal which is now available in CD and digital formats. These sessions with just Neil and his longtime accompanist Peter Childs, took place during the same period as Neil’s legendary seminal […]

On May 7th, Smoke from the Chimney, a nine-song album of never-before-heard Tony Joe White tunes, will be released on Easy Eye Sound. Produced by Dan Auerbach and rounded out by Nashville’s most seasoned studio musicians, Smoke from the Chimney started out as a number of unadorned voice and guitar demos from White’s home studio […]

Upon listening to Joe Kaplow’s forthcoming second full-length album, Sending Money and Stems (release date, April 30 via Fluff and Gravy Records), the first thing that strikes you is his voice. Over the course of 10 concise indie folk tracks, his shimmering falsetto seems to dance with the strings of his guitar as it pulls […]

Maryland-based rapper Ehmji and Berlin-based producer Mogul are at it again. Check out the funky and style-infused new single “GML.” Cutting through a bed of low-end cushion alongside synth color, Ehmji vocally skats with a creative and concise vocal release. “GML” is a track built on hooky melodic flair and staggering flow, set into a warm […]

The Paper Kites are an indie rock-folk band from Melbourne, Australia. They have released four studio albums and four EPs. Their fifth studio album Roses is set to be released on March 12th. Check out the engaging new single “Walk Above The City” from The Paper Kites. Forged in haunting vocal harmonies and circular guitar musing, a sonic […]

Billy Strings kicked off his six-night virtual livestream event from New York’s Capitol Theatre on Thursday evening with a rousing pair of sets that featured a healthy mix of originals, including a handful of brand-new compositions, and covers spanning multiple eras & genres. Officially referred to as “The Déjà vu Experiment”, this week-long run of […]

Brooklyn garage-psych trio Acid Dad have announce their sophomore album Take It From The Dead, due June 11, 2021 via Greenway Records / The Reverberation Appreciation Society. To ring in the announcement, the band has shared the video for the album’s first single “RC Driver.” Watch the video below…   “‘RC Driver’ is about how I wish I raced cars for a […]

Multi-instrumentalist Tash Sultana’s sophomore effort Terra Firma bumps along, dripping with layers of early 90’s R&B, indie rock, and dream pop escapism. Playing all sounds while delivering floating vocals, Sultana is a musical force over the fourteen neo-new jack swing and soul/pop offerings.      The record starts on the acid jazz high note of “Musk”, a […]

Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Anthony Vasquez who writes and records as Otis Kane found a passion for music at a very young age. His football coach at the time had ties to the music industry, which led to his first recording studio experience. From then on, Vasquez knew that he wanted to […]

Check out the spellbinding and gorgeous new single “Melting Day” from Los Angeles-based Sandwoman. With a captivating vocal aura, she dances across a synthesizer-saturated world with an inviting tone and melodic flair. “Melting Day” is a lovely and simple timepiece, a creative and carefree track reminding us of Blondie meets Cate Le Bon. “I wrote […]

You might not yet have heard Left Field Messiah play, but you’re probably familiar with its parts. The band – featuring Steve Bays (Hot Hot Heat), Erik Janson (Wildling), and Jeremy Ruzumma (Fitz and The Tantrums) recently conjured up a slinky beauty titled “Left Field Messiah” that covers the blue-eyed soul alt pop spectrum ala Hall & Oates, Mark Ronson, […]

This Saturday, February 20 at 6pm EST, Low Cut Connie will air a special episode of their acclaimed livestream concert series “Tough Cookies” in partnership with the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, which will feature interviews with original members from Sly and the Family Stone, including Jerry Martini, Larry Graham, Freddie Stone, Greg Errico, as well as Phunne Stone, […]

Copenhagen’s Iceage – Elias Bender Rønnenfelt, Jakob Tvilling Pless, Johan Surrballe Wieth, and Dan Kjær Nielsen – has announced their fifth album, Seek Shelter, out May 7th on Mexican Summer. With that they have presented a new single/video, “Vendetta,” (below). Enrolling Sonic Boom(Pete Kember of Spacemen 3) to produce the record and an additional guitarist in the form of Casper Morilla Fernandez, Seek Shelter sees Iceage’s propulsive momentum pushing them […]

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard are excited to announce their seventeenth studio album L.W., to be released February 26, 2021. The album serves as a direct follow-up to last year’s full-length K.G., and is the third volume in the band’s explorations into microtonal tunings (which began with 2017’s Flying Microtonal Banana). Pre-save the album HERE. Following the recent releases of […]

Staggering and sonically delightful, The Local Honeys deliver power, education, and a healthy dose of uprightness on their two-song release, Dying To Make A Living and Octavia Triangle, out via La Honda Records. Kentuckians through and through, Linda Jean Stokley and Montana Hobbs are exceptionally skilled old-time musicians with robust and dynamic voices that convey […]

Death Become Life, the forthcoming album from acclaimed Oakland-based hip-hop orchestra Ensemble Mik Nawooj, is slated for release on March 19. Death Become Life consists of ten tracks and five accompanying live performance videos. Three of the compositions—together known as the Fountainheads Suite—are a direct response to COVID-19 and its disproportionate effects on marginalized communities, […]

Edie Brickell & New Bohemians release their new album, Hunter And The Dog Star, this week via Thirty Tigers. In many ways, this is the second album in the group’s new phase of existence, having come together with plenty of reunion fireworks with Rocket in 2018. Though they have never really ceased being a musical entity, there have […]