Archive: 2022

Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release BeforeAfter, the first-ever solo retrospective from Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Daryl Hall, as a two-disc set and across all digital platforms, on Friday, April 1. On the same date, Hall will also embark on his first solo tour in a decade, performing on historic […]

Super Bowl LVI is fast approaching and there are few better ways to get pumped up for the biggest football game of the year than indulging in some epic football movies. This sport has made some intense flicks over the years, covering from topics such as the 5 biggest blowouts in Super Bowl history to […]

Yeah Tame Impala has a sound, but Kevin Parker has only been releasing albums since 2010 – so surely hazy nostalgic leaning psych pop isn’t owned. In fact, psychedelic dance music has been around way longer than Desert Daze Festival. Take Spaceface, a self-described “Retro Futurist Dream Rock” band from Memphis, TN, and Los Angeles, […]

To excuse the tired cliche, cover albums are indeed a dime a dozen. But when LA area producer and songstress Betty Moon releases her new covers album Undercover this Friday (1.28), the 10 song effort boats of reimaginations that aren’t your typical song choices. This modern leaning batch includes Moon’s takes on several of her […]

Their mantra can be best summed up as: “Keep it simple and get to the point.” “Pop aesthetics tend to overvalue the hooks and choruses of songs at the expense of context and narrative,” Andrew (singer/guitarist) explains. “That’s not the kind of storytelling tradition I’m particularly excited by.” Traps ps is an attempt to deconstruct […]

Bassist Tyler Mitchell and alto Saxophonist/EVI Player Marshall Allen first met as band members of the cosmic Sun Ra Arkestra in the mid-eighties. Of course, the 97-year-old Marshall, the Arkestra’s current director, has been a member of the band since the late fifties and assumed its leadership upon Sun Ra’s passing in 1993. Mitchell rejoined […]

This is Ropeadope’s fourth installment of their acclaimed Experiment series. The Chicago Experiment follows in the tradition of the 2001 Philadelphia Experiment, the 2003 Detroit Experiment, the 2007 Harlem Experiment, and now after fifteen years, one centered on The Second City. From the opening notes of “The Chant” one hears the highly recognizable vibes of […]

Do you love playing video games or online casino games on Sbobet? Gameplay is a fun experience, especially when you share it with friends. However, it helps to understand the options and rules before delving into a particular game.  For example, understanding microtransactions in games might unlock specific features along the way, but these in-game […]

On the surface, Cedric Burnside and Black Joe Lewis come from two different musical backgrounds, but listen to their music and it makes sense that they would tour together. Whereas Burnside is a bearer of the blues tradition, Black Joe Lewis takes forms of the blues and spins it in a funky rock and roll […]

In a new weekly roundup, Glide will drop caustic commentary on selected tracks from release day Friday. Jake Xerxes Fussell – “Breast of Glass” It’s hard to write a folk song, and “Breast of Glass” is not exactly a perfect entry, but it does what it should do, place a simple melody over a simple, […]

Mekons (beloved, mythical British rabble-rousing beast) and Freakwater (also beloved, yet often derided as godmothers of Alt-Country) have allied their sundry song & dance talents for the forces of good. Together they are FREAKONS. Oddly, Freakwater and Mekons were bound to each other at the start, by the rich seam of Anthracite coal running the width of the Atlantic Ocean […]

Cypress Hill has returned with their tenth studio album, Back In Black, produced entirely by Black Milk and due March 18, 2022 via MNRK. To ring in the announcement, the group has shared new single “Bye Bye,” (below) featuring a standout verse from rapper Dizzy Wright. The new track comes on the heels of the announcement of the band’s extensive slate of touring […]

Desert rock arrives instinctively for Surf Through Death, a power psych trio featuring three accomplished Phoenix, Arizona musical veterans: Mike Upsahl (bass, vocals), Chan Schulman (guitar), and Shane Ocell drums). From pummeling guitar riffs, spectral howls, fuzzy bass, and primal drums; Surf Through Death ain’t your older brother’s psych doom band. These desert boys incorporate edgy anthemic anthems with […]

Andrew Pitrone, Andrew the Artist, puts the journey- in journeyman, living in various cities and townships up and down the western edge of America, filling his time with song and art-by-hand. Chiefly of which being a film project scripted around the actual building of a barn in the no-man’s-lands of southwestern Oregon. “Many times I find […]

The New Orleans underground cabaret jazz outfit The Sleazeball Orchestra has released their second full-length album, Pearl River Tango. The collection is a mix of simmering originals, risqué covers, and freaky grooves that enhance the group’s exotic sound.  The duo of Kitty Baudoin (aka Fraulein Frances) and Stoo Odom conduct the Orchestra with Christopher Johnson […]

Ghost Stories may mark the first album as The Whitmore Sisters, but Eleanor and Bonnie are certainly not novices to the Americana world. Bonnie already has four solo albums to her name and Eleanor has recorded just as many records with her husband Chris Masterson under the moniker The Mastersons. Not to mention that both […]

Fans and followers of the Posi-Tone label, will acknowledge that the bassist in the core rhythm section for many recent releases is the Mingus-inspired bassist Boris Kozlov, paired with drummer Rudy Royston and keyboardist Art Hirahara. Joining them for Kozlov’s label debut as a leader, First Things First, is another frequent label mate, vibraphonist Behn […]