Archive: 2022

On Saturday, April 23rd, Ben Vaughn’s celebrated career will come full circle with the release of The World of Ben Vaughn. A return to his roots—his recording roots, that is. In 1986, the singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist debuted his first album on vinyl only. He had no choice. The CD player was not yet an everyday home appliance. […]

Flames of Durga is a California-based three-person Rock band who have increasingly found their wings while weathering a very troubled time in the world. Featuring sisters Béah and Cecilia Romero on guitars and vocals and Nate Million on drums, the band released the single “Remember the Now”, building on their previous EP, shortly before going […]

Not wholly unlike The Dropper in its adventurous approach to composing and arranging, this next to the last MMW effort for Blue Note (not counting the Note Bleu anthology) almost qualifies as its companion piece (right down to the bizarre cover images). Certainly, it’s an exercise in the use of the recording studio as an […]

In a new weekly roundup, Glide drops caustic commentary on selected tracks from release day Friday. Orville Peck – “The Curse of the Blackened Eye” Peck’s twist on alt-county doesn’t seem to appeal to fans of country or alt-country, but rather to an entirely new demographic. Bronco doesn’t do much to win over the pop-country […]

Jack White showed everyone on Friday how to make the most out of a single day: it must be the blue hair. Yesterday (April 8), White started the day performing a fantastic, yet remarkably unique, version of “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the Detroit Tigers’ home opener for the 2022 Major League Baseball season.  White, accompanied […]

Journey is traveling across the United States on their Freedom Tour 2022. They were supposed to have support from Billy Idol, which was a debatable pairing. However, Idol bowed out to have surgery to treat a chronic sinus problem, and Toto, who was set to do the second half of the tour, agreed to fill […]

Few have trod a more divine intervention musical path than John Mark Nelson. The previously well-known local Minnesota artist had a knack for working on other people’s music, yet his own voice was one that couldn’t wait to be heard. Nelson was finding new avenues of creativity as a producer and engineer among his circle […]

Around the time Grizzly Bear released Shields, their oft-overlooked follow-up to Veckatimest, Daniel Rossen self-produced an even more overlooked EP of extras. Silent Hour/Golden Mile is a strong little collection of songs and acts as a great counterweight to Shields’ grandiosity – probably even better than the B-Side mini-album the band put out at the […]

Listening to Second Nature, the new album from indie-pop outfit Lucius, you’d never guess that it’s been six years since their last proper studio effort, 2016’s underrated art-pop gem Good Grief. Granted, the band hasn’t exactly been dormant in that time, they released an album of acoustic re-workings which they toured behind along with sporadic […]

Tanika Charles is a Canadian soul singer who has been nominated twice for a JUNO award and it’s easy to see why. On her first two albums Soul Run and The Gumption, she showed that she can lay down some serious grooves with a voice that is on par with the greats of soul. Not […]

The music of Dallas Ugly shimmers with an iridescent nostalgia. Built on a foundation of mellow interchanges of electric guitar and pedal steel, the rhythm and flow evoke an old-school country version of lo-fi hip-hop radio. But combined with soaring fiddle and heartfelt vocals, it becomes something wholly new – a sound as unique as […]

Sway: The Best of Carla Olson & Mick Taylor not only validates the impressive pedigree of both these veteran musicians, it also reaffirms just how smoothly their complementary talents mesh in a variety of settings. CD one is actually the duo’s live album, Too Hot For Snakes, consisting largely of the second set at the […]

Eight-piece Gulf Coast soul band The Suffers have announced their third studio album It Starts With Love will be released on June 3 via Missing Piece Records. The Houston-based band shared the official video for their album opener “Don’t Bother Me,” an electrifying declaration of independence and empowerment. Crafted in collaboration with Swedish writer/producer and […]

Mississippi-born, Memphis-raised, Grammy Award-winning music legend Charlie Musselwhite will release Mississippi Son, his new Alligator Records CD and LP, on Friday, June 3. On each of Mississippi Son’s 14 songs, including eight powerfully stark originals, Musselwhite’s straight-from-the-soul vocals and deep blues harmonica playing are the perfect foil to his deceptively simple, hypnotic guitar work, which […]

Following up on the fantastic, lost weekend-inspired, 2018 release, God’s Favorite Customer, Father John Misty (aka Jonathan Tillman) turns to old-timey big band/jazz orchestras of the 1930s for inspiration and these restrained sounds produce his most cohesive musical album yet. The soft tones, production, and black and white photos delivered on Chloë and the Next […]

The 2022 Boscov’s Berks Jazz Fest, in its 31st year, returned in its usual slot, the first two weekends of April, boasting a wide array of jazz and other genres. We attended the Friday night, April 1 performance of Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) at the grand, venerable Santander Performing […]

Interpol continues to create quality over quantity on its discography that has spanned since 2002 with the breakthrough Turn On The The Bright Lights, which continues to still sound novelly fresh today. The three-piece returns with their seventh album The Other Side of Make-Believe due out July 15th via Matador. The Other Side of Make-Believe […]

After thirteen years of living and playing in the indie bands of Seoul, Korea, Vancouver-based, Canadian singer/songwriter M.E. Netzke’s solo music is no longer being lost in translation. He has distilled years of turmoil and resignation into two earnest EPs. For his latest effort, slated for release in the spring of 2022, ‘Curtain No.2’ delivers […]