Archive: 2022

Jason Quever, better known as Papercuts, has been releasing psychedelic dream-pop since 2004. Having recently moved back to the San Francisco Bay Area, Quever began writing songs for what would become Past Life Regressions. The songs on this album contain much of the same self-reflective lyrics as past albums like, 2018’s Parallel Universe Blues, with […]

One of the brightest young stars in the blues universe shined all over the historic Apollo Theater in Harlem on Thursday night March 31st as 22-year-old Christone “Kingfish” Ingram dazzled the crowd with his phenomenal talents – just days before earning a Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues Album for his most recent album 662. Before […]

Dark Star Orchestra returned to The Paramount in Huntington on March 30th for the first time since November of 2019. Of course, this was originally scheduled for New Year’s weekend, but the pandemic pushed off this, and countless shows were planned for that time. It also served as a homecoming for guitarist Jeff Mattson and […]

Born and raised outside Houston, Denitia’s southern heritage forms a canvas for her evolving musical portrait. As a child, she performed in church choirs and taught herself to play piano and guitar from her family’s trailer in the woods. She carried those experiences with her as she made her way around the country, moving to […]

After first meeting in 2012 at DePaul University, Libby Weitnauer, Eli Broxham, and Owen Burton became fast friends and began writing music together with every free moment. After years apart, the three reunited around the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.  With gigs dried up and a few years of life to catch up on, they […]

In a new weekly roundup, Glide drops caustic commentary on selected tracks from release day Friday. Duster – “Feel No Joy” Duster’s 2019 reunion album was no fluke. The space rock/slowcore group is back, and their surprise new album is just as great as their previous work. “Feel No Joy” especially, finds the band toeing […]

Widespread Panic announces the long-awaited official release of  Miss Kitty’s Lounge on May 20th. The album will be released on vinyl in independent record stores, digitally on Livewidespreadpanic.com and streaming everywhere. Following the success of their debut album Space Wrangler (1988 Landslide Records), Widespread Panic began what has become an illustrious touring career, breaking attendance records throughout the country. During […]

Blending the musical influence and attitude of Waylon Jennings with the swagger of the Wu-Tang Clan, Paul Cauthen delivers an impressively confident and highly enjoyable third LP with Country Coming Down. Bro Country this ain’t. The template is set for the rest of the record right at the beginning on “Country As Fuck,” with Cauthen’s […]

On the fourth album from San Diego’s Afro-Funk and Soul-Jazz nine-piece The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble, the group digs into these turbulent times with instrumental power. The ten songs presented on Step Down from Colemine Records, all project confidence and a band in the zone.  The group of Tim Felten (organ/electric piano), Jesse Audelo (sax/flute), […]

Danielia Cotton has always stood out. In her hometown of Hopewell, New Jersey, (population 2,010), she was one of only a handful of black students at her junior high school. However, she didn’t just stand out because of the tone of her skin. She also stood out because of her powerful voice when she sang […]

Club d’Elf’s You Never Know is a stirring example of inspiration through adversity. The group’s third studio effort over the course of its twenty-plus year career might well be nothing more than a pastiche of styles if it weren’t for founder and multi-instrumentalist Mike Rivard’s fusion of his own skills as musician, bandleader, arranger, producer, […]

Pianist and composer Gerald Clayton has delivered one of this year’s most gorgeous albums with Bells on Sand, an artful look at the vicissitudes of time, rendered with a lean cast performing solo, duo, or trio tracks. This goes in a completely different direction than Clayton’s Blue Note debut, Happening: Live at the Village Vanguard, […]

Four-time Grammy-winning singer, composer and actor Lyle Lovett is set to release his first new album in ten years; 12th of June will be released May 13 on Verve Records. Produced by Chuck Ainlay and Lovett, 12th of June features a mix of new originals, standards by Nat King Cole and Dave Frishberg, and a […]

Michael Beharie is a musician based in New York City. His music sits at the imagined intersection between sound system culture, pop transmission and free improvisation. In addition to a string of solo releases on Astro Nautico and performances with avant-chamber band Zs, Michael most recently released a collaboration with cellist Teddy Rankin-Parker called ‘A […]

Sparks are celebrating their post-millennial renaissance with the 21st Century Sparks collection of deluxe reissues, to be released by BMG on CD and vinyl later this spring. Balls (2000), Lil’ Beethoven (2002), and Hello Young Lovers (2006) arrive on Friday, April 29; Exotic Creatures Of The Deep(2008) and The Seduction Of Ingmar Bergman (2009) follow on Friday, May 27. And today (3/31) the Mael brothers share “It’s A Sparks Show,” a previously […]

EVNTYD (eventide) is a project that began in May of 2020. When Austin-based producer-songwriter Julián Berdegué realized that his writing style no longer fit the sound of his then band, Have To Have, he decided to make the most of his quarantine free time and began the process of exploring a new sound which would […]

“River Run”, the latest single from Mert Spalty, is an almost four-minute exercise in tension and release, kicking you off your favorite couch cushion every couple of minutes just to keep you on your toes.  Getting the ball rolling with a violin solo that sets the tone by making some unconventional melodic detours, “River Run” settles into a comfortable acoustic […]

Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, John Mayer, and Bob Weir, with Oteil Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti – is excited to announce its 2022 tour, the band’s seventh tour since forming in 2015, which kicks off June 11th in Los Angeles at the famed Dodger Stadium and runs through July, with a two-night stand at Citi Field, the home of […]

“I remember Jamie showing this to me early on when we were locked down in 2020. He seemed a little hesitant to think of it as anything more than a silly song but I just thought it was good. The more we played it the more we liked it. Kinda has a Traveling Wilburys thing to […]