Archive: 2021

For 60 years, the legendary Impulse! Records has been home to the greatest jazz artists of all time, including John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Archie Shepp, Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Quincy Jones, and more. The orange-and-black imprint known as the House That Trane Built was a cultural beacon of progressivism, spiritualism, and activism throughout the 1960s […]

 Fifty years after the original performance, Neil Young announces Young Shakespeare, an as-yet unreleased 1971 live recording and concert film which contains the earliest known live performance footage of Young known to exist. The 1971 Stratford, CT show captures the artists stripped down to the bare essentials—acoustic guitar, piano, and harmonica. Available for pre-order today and out on […]

Been there? Maybe. Done that? Sure. The Map of Tiny Perfect Things still manages to be enjoyable.

Beautiful and Poetic, Minari is a stunner.

Back in 2019, slowthai performed his Mercury Prize performance while holding the severed head of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a move that worked to invigorate his supporters and further surround the young rapper in controversy. A stunt like that perfectly sums up the tone of slowthai’s debut, Nothing Great About Britain – confrontational, dynamic, […]

Noah C Lekas is a poet, essayist and journalist. His first book, Saturday Night Sage (released April 13, 2019) is a collection of narrative prose exploring mysticism and menial labor in contemporary America. After calling all four corners of the country home, his work is as uniquely American as his perspective. The first literary release for […]

On March 5th, Badlands will release new 11-song album Djinn under the RITE label. Both the moniker and the label are run by Swedish composer, producer, and sound designer Catharina Jaunviksna, who creates her own Electronic-driven compositions as well as working on commercial projects in film, tv, radio, and theater. Her projects all reflect her […]

The Barlow is a band that describes its sound as “Colorado Country.” It is a healthy blend of outlaw country, Americana, and a fair amount of rock. In their time as a band, one band The Barlow has supported is Austin honky tonkers Mike and The Moonpies among other acts. That particular pairing had quite […]

This is the second release from the jazz ensemble Out to Dinner with just two of the five members returning from the debut. While that effort focused more on the music of Miles Davis and Wayne Shorter, Play On (Posi-Tone Records) directly honors the vintage Blue Note era of the late ‘50s and ‘60s and […]

Andrew Shepard was looking for a fresh start. The Athens, Georgia-based guitarist and songwriter had been acting as the frontman for his previous band, Roadkill Ghost Choir, for eight years, playing every major festival, Late Night With David Letterman, and touring alongside Band of Horses. But Shepard was feeling constrained by the expectations placed on […]

Maja Lena is the solo moniker and Swedish nickname of new Glide favorite, Marianne Parrish. She recently brought us news of her debut album, The Keeper along with the release of her most recent single ‘Birch.’ Take a listen to the splendid and immersed new single, “Birch” (below) from Maja Lena. Once again we find our songstress singing with dazzling […]

Chick Corea– a legendary keyboardist who was a monster in the fusion realm and was a force of nature in all things jazz and improvisation died on February 9th at age 79 from cancer. Through his “Elektric”, fusion, trio, and combo albums Corea was extremely prolific. An electric keyboard pioneer alongside his acoustic piano accomplishments, […]

The Allman Brothers Band is preparing to officially release another historic show via the Allman Brothers Band Recording Companylabel. Recorded on September 28, 1971 at the Austin Municipal Auditorium in Austin, TX, Down In Texas ’71 will be available through an exclusive pre-sale at www.merchmountain.com, and beginning March 26 (the band’s formation anniversary) at The Big House Museum gift shop and online store, and as a digital […]

Rose City Band, the solo project of singer/guitarist Ripley Johnson, has announced a new album Earth Trip, out May 21st. On Earth Trip, Johnson colors songs with a country-rock twang and a melancholic, wistful undertone. Themes recur such as pining for summers spent in the company of friends to newer meditations on space, stillness and the splendor of […]

Cari Hutson probably never fully envisioned her first “true properly released” album would be an EP, but hey that’s just sometimes the way things happen in the music biz. After all quite a few successful bands have had debut EPs that set the course of their career: Kings of Leon, R.E.M., and Coldplay to name […]

When we enter the post COVID world will the world of cross-armed concert-goes be something of the past? Heck, if you spot anyone not having a good time in 2002, they ought you a beer. Let’s bring the joy back in rock and that’s what Orlando, FL five-piece The 502s hope to achieve: uplifting roots […]

Yo Kinky is Laura Wight and Tom Unish of Queens, New York. The post-pop duo creates music that layer seductive patter lyrics over shimmering angular guitars and drum machines. The two met at the start of 2020, bonding over shared musical interests, and immediately started working on songs together. Over the course of the Covid-19 […]

Jillette Johnson is an artist who started writing music at age eight. By the time she was a teenager, she played three-hour sets of original music at a restaurant near her home in New York. To say that music has been a labor of love for her is an understatement. Like all of us, Johnson […]