Firefly is multi-reedist Alexa Tarantino’s third album for the Posi-tone label, following her excellent 2020 Clarity and 2018’s Winds of Change. This writer put Clarity on the year’s best list
The Colorist Orchestra is an avant classical music collective led by Aarich Jespers and Kobe Proesmans that uses traditional and bespoke instruments in unorthodox ways to remix the repertoire of
Rusty Young, the founder of the legendary country-rock band Poco passed away today at the age of 75. 2021 marked Young’s 53rd year in the music biz, most of them
Free Radio, the Asheville-based hip-hop collective featuring forever friends Austn Haynes and Johnny Reynolds, returns with “Outer Limits” featuring new band members including Grammy-winning singer Debrissa McKinney and rising powerhouse
Valley Boy’s James Alan Ghaleb and Ian Meltzer, met in their middle school P.E. class when Ian was taken aback by James’ wild locks and a friendship immediately followed. The
Netflix has found their Joey Ramone. Twenty years to the day after the legendary punk’s death, the streaming service has announced that comedian Pete Davidson will bring Ramone back to
When Sharon Van Etten’s second album, epic dropped in 2010, only a year after her debut, the response was surprisingly muted. Although critics noted the strength of its lyricism, composition
On May 14, The Black Keys release their tenth studio album, Delta Kream, via Nonesuch Records. The record celebrates the band’s roots, featuring eleven Mississippi hill country blues standards that they have loved since
With three decades of hindsight, it’s well worth asking if the Grateful Dead’s One From the Vault (released 4/15/91) actually initiated the concept of archiving as we know it today.
Unlike a lot of musicians, Parker Millsap actually had plans to record an album last year, even before the world came to a sudden, brake-grinding halt. It’s just that he
