Archive: 2021

Feast your ears on the stifling new single “tie-down” (below) from Los Angeles based neo-soul artist goodboy noah. With a sick vocal style built on dynamic range and flawless phrasing, goodboy noah vocally struts across a synth-laden terrace of warmth and low-end thunder. “Tie Down” combines pop-sensible lyrical wizardry that will appeal to ears on […]

The Armed have announced a new album,ULTRAPOP, available April 16th via Sargent House – their first album with the company. Featuring work from Mark Lanegan and Queens of the Stone Age guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen this is the first album co-produced by the band’s own Dan Greene in collaboration with Ben Chisholm (Chelsea Wolfe). Kurt Ballou remains at the helm as executive producer. With the […]

Following in the tradition of the legendary Grateful Dead concerts celebrating the holiday, Bob Weir and Wolf Bros will broadcast a live performance via FANS from TRI Studios in celebration of Chinese New Year, February 12 at 9 p.m. EST. Tickets are $19.99 in advance/$24.99 day-of-show; see HERE for more info. Weir is joined by a pair of familiar bandmates in the Wolf Bros: legendary producer Don Was on bass and Jay Lane (RatDog) on drums.  […]

Multi-Grammy & Emmy nominated recording artist, TV star and activist Jon Batiste has announces a new single “I Need You” from his forthcoming ‘black pop’ album WE ARE. The album is set for worldwide release on March 19 (Verve Records). On “I Need You” (below) Batiste showcases his vocal range, accompanied by his once-in-a-generation musicianship. Produced and […]

New Madrid is set to return with a self-titled new album on April 30, 2021 via Lemonade Records. Produced by Drew Vandenberg (Futurebirds, Bambara, Faye Webster), the 10-song set follows the band’s magnetkingmagnetqueen LP, which released on New West Records in 2016. The new music finds New Madrid revisiting the southern indie rock sounds of […]

Catching a listener’s attention isn’t an easy chore simply because so many bands exist. One thing a band can do to catch the attention, even before the listener hears a note of their music, is to have a description that is more descriptive than “alternative”. Chicken Snake’s music is described as southern voodoo-psych blues, which […]

The High Plains Drifters were sired after a night of too much booze and too little food at a Tex-Mex spot in the Manhattan neighborhood of Chelsea. Fast forward a few years and they boast one fan-favorite album—2019’s High Plains Drifters that recieved the critical acclaim of Harper’s Bazaar, Untitled Magazine, Glide Magazine, Anti Music, and more. Their second full-length […]

Blurring the boundaries between ’90s alt-rock, ’70s rhythmic crunch, and the savvy songwriting of Big Star and Elliott Smith, Devil Love makes its brand of hook-heavy pop/rock. It’s a modern sound that nods to the best parts of the past, fusing the melodies of frontman Peter Buzzelle — a longtime member of Boston’s songwriting community […]

Swedish Post-Metal band Cult of Luna are releasing a new EP, A Raging River, on February 5th via Red Creek Recordings, with distribution in the USA by Metal Blade and in Europe by Season of Mist. There are a number of things that are special about this EP in the context of the history of […]

Many musicians in their eighties pare back their activities but this is not the case with the irrepressible progressive Black music icon, Gary Bartz. Just last year he recorded an acclaimed album, Night Dreamer – Direct to Disc Sessions with the funk unit Maisha. IN 2019 he teamed with fellow altoists Vince Herring and Booby […]

Tom Jones has announced his latest musical adventure, Surrounded By Time, will be released on April 23 via S-Curve Records. The announcement comes with the release of the album’s first single “Talking Reality Television Blues,” accompanied by an official music video that traces the impact and changing role of television throughout history. Check it out […]

Death From Above 1979 (DFA), the boundary-pushing musical alliance of Sebastien Grainger and Jesse F. Keeler, have released their new single, “One + One.” Along with the first single, the band dropped a surprise announcement of their fourth LP, Is 4 Lovers, out March 26. It is available for pre-order here. The new album, which Grainger and Keeler […]

Houston Kendrick is a new wave songwriter with the ability to craft powerful prose while blending gorgeous harmonies and catchy melodies. Check out “Look at Us,” (below) the graceful and fresh new single from Houston Kendrick. Kendrick vocally grooves over an atmospheric and vibrant beat with a dynamic vocal scope alongside a distinct style. An innovative genre-blender, “Look at Us” […]

Nisa is the solo project of New York based singer-songwriter Denisa Lumaj. Nisa was first inspired to begin writing songs after an old guitar teacher encouraged her to draw from the enchanting storytelling of fearless acts like PJ Harvey and the Cure in her own work. Born to Albanian immigrants in the Bronx and raised […]

Dan Auerbach is best known as one half of the arena-filling rock and roll outfit The Black Keys, but these days his real strongpoint is signing talented artists to his label Easy Eye Sound and lending his masterful skills as a producer to the albums it churns out on a regular basis. The latest example […]

With everything going on in today’s world, nobody can blame you if the only living thing you want to associate with is your four-legged furry friend. Today, the Nashville-based quintet Flight Attendant is back with a new song and video called “Dogs” (PRE-ORDER) that understands what you’re going through. Flight Attendant is a psychedelic space […]

Juana Everett’s first full length, Move On, is a mostly great take on folk rock, infusing the genre with piano and soulful vocals for an inspired update. The two strongest tracks on the record also happen to bookend it, with the upbeat, seemingly autobiographical “Drifter of Love” kicking off the collection: The record closes on […]

Psychedelic Porn Crumpets newest release SHYGA! The Sunlight Mound opens with a bizarre (brief) introduction to their freaky world. The track is titled “Big Dijon” and it does just enough to disorientate, before blasting the listener off into the cosmos with what follows.   The Perth, Australia based band, lead by Jack McEwan on guitar/vocals, have […]