Archive: 2022

The year 2008 didn’t start with anything close to an awesome party. It was smack dab in the middle of a global economic collapse in fact. The latest single from Glasgow’s 8-piece funk-soul powerhouse Tom McGuire & the Brassholes thinks hindsight and a whole lot of non-stop syncopated funk can make a party out of all […]

Charley Crockett will release his latest album The Man From Waco on September 9th via Son of Davy/Thirty Tigers. Crockett wrote or co-wrote all 14 songs on the album, and in many ways The Man From Waco is the purest distillation of his artistry to date. What started as a demo session with producer Bruce […]

Archers of Loaf have announced the October 21 release of their first new full-length studio album in 24 years, “Reason in Decline”, via Merge. Today they share the first single from the record, the thunderous, tension-filled “In the Surface Noise.” The band’s Eric Bachman notes “we didn’t intend for this song to be political and it was written […]

Danger Mouse and Black Thought have shared new single, Aquamarine featuring British soul star, Michael Kiwanuka. Aquamarine is the latest single from Danger Mouse and Black Thought’s highly-anticipated album, Cheat Codes, out 12th August. Danger Mouse’s rousing, cinematic production and Black Thought’s razor-sharp vocals are perfectly complimented by Kiwanuka’s soaring and soulful hook. The single […]

Club d’Elf’s latest album You Never Know, the third over the course of its twenty-plus year career is entire without simplicity: and that’s a good thing. Founder and multi-instrumentalist Mike Rivard upped his game to reimagine Frank Zappa’s “King Kong” as well as the Miles Davis/Joe Zawinul collaboration “In A Silent Way”/”It’s About That Time.” […]

Known as the lead singer/songwriter of Chapel Hill’s Sarah Shook & the Disarmers, Sarah Shook has a new solo project, Mightmare, and will release their debut album Cruel Liars on October 14 via Kill Rock Stars. The first song “Saturn Turns” is available now as a streaming single and music video and can be heard below. “I […]

As Wynton Marsalis approaches his 61st birthday, his career as an ambassador and curator of jazz history, its seminal importance and influence as an original American art form, has been both critical and essential. Beyond his accomplishments as a supremely gifted trumpeter and composer, stellar performer & veteran band, and orchestral leader of top-tier talent […]

Colorado Springs-based outlaw alt-folk group Tejon Street Corner Thieves (TSCT) recently released their new album Thick As Thieves, and have now teamed up with members of Bridge City Sinners to record a version of “Long Gone” live inside the rugged and scenic beauty of Grand Teton National Park. The track is the opening song on […]

The artist Queen Kwong, also known as Carré Kwong Callaway, just released her new album Couples Only on July 12th via Sonic Ritual. The expansive new collection shows some significant sound developments and an approach to darker themes surrounding relationships, all balanced out with a certain amount of dark humor that’s often couched in a […]

Jazz Is Dead, the collaborative of Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad, who are now well into their second series of fusing hip hop grooves with jazz, analog-style, depart slightly from their mission statement on this release. The two have primarily been re-introducing legends from the ‘70s – Roy Ayers, Gary Bartz, Doug Carn, Jean […]

In the latest Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle offers his illustrated commentary on The Line Is A Curve, the new album from poet Kae Tempest, in his signature six-panel comic strip form. Click on the image for full resolution (best viewed on desktop):

Fresh off a run of US dates, Craig Finn and the Uptown Controllers have announced a fall tour of North America. Kicking off on October 11 at Boston’s Crystal Ballroom, the dates will take the band through November 9, ending at Portland, OR’s Old Church. The complete itinerary is below. For updates, please visit craigfinn.net/tour. These fall dates are in support […]

“Justinian” is the latest chamber pop single from Moon Hound, the Queens NY based band helmed by composer and guitarist Ian McNally. Bits of Andrew Bird and Fleet Foxes combine to form an efficient and potent composition led by McNally’s imagery-laden storytelling and raw, unadorned vocal delivery. “Justinian” is off the band’s latest EP Wait for […]

Jenner Fox’s latest single “Cooking for One” is one of those straight-ahead, matter-of-fact folk songs that can sneak up on you and leave a heartache that just kind of gets bigger for a while it all sinks in. As the title suggests, loneliness abounds, but it’s the simple imagery Fox uses to describe all the little […]

Austin-based band Golden Dawn Arkestra will release their highly anticipated release The Gold Album on August 12 digitally and on limited 180 gram edition vinyl. The Gold Album will be released in partnership with Spaceflight Records, Eye in the Sky and Terrorbird Media. The upcoming album follows the band’s acclaimed full-length Darkness Falls On The […]

Dead & Company stopped by Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia this past Sunday, July 10th, to deliver a pair of standout sets that focused primarily on relatively early-era material from the Grateful Dead’s expansive catalog. Marking only their second trip to the cavernous home of the Philadelphia Phillies since their 2015 formation – the group […]

Legendary Athens, GA post-punk trio Mercyland has announced the upcoming release of their long-overdue final album, We Never Lost a Single Game, arriving via Propeller Sound Recordings on Friday, September 16. Pre-orders are available now. Featuring nine songs originally recorded in 1990 but shelved following Mercyland’s 1991 dissolution, We Never Lost A Single Game is heralded by today’s premiere of […]

Seminal Pacific NW post-hardcore stalwarts Unwound have just announced a seven city tour, their first live shows in over 20 years, to take place in February and March of next year – chekc out the full dates below. Born in 1991 in the Pacific Northwest as the Riot Grrrl and grunge musico-social movements took hold of underground pop culture, Unwound leveled their small […]

Coming off of the release of their third album Lavender Days and an opening slot on The Lumineers 2022 summer tour, Caamp took the late-night stage on Kimmel last night (July 11). The alt-country quartet dawned lavender suites to perform “Believe”, a high-tempo ballad from their latest LP. With a backdrop of pastel watercolor canyons, […]