Archive: 2022

Whether traveling to gigs on horseback or by tour bus, Americana mavens The Brothers Comatose forge their own path with raucous West Coast renderings of traditional bluegrass, country and rock ‘n’ roll music. The five-piece string band is anything but a traditional acoustic outfit with their fierce musicianship and rowdy, rock concert-like shows. The Brothers […]

Fifty years after its initial release, Elton John’s Madman Across The Water – his fourth album – remains one of his best albums in a career crammed with remarkable albums. Despite the record being one of his lowest charting albums at the time, history has proven yet again that sales don’t equate to quality. Songs […]

Born and raised in Minnesota, Tommy Goodroad’s Midwestern-tinged country music captures the distinctive solitude of American cities and towns that would be landlocked if not for the Great Lakes. He now lives in Chicago, writing songs aiming to highlight the beautifully unrefined temperament of his home region and the people who reside there. The opening […]

Singer/songwriter Sergio Napoletano has found his stride… and his bandmates. With an enormous support group of musicians/friends including AJ Pantaleo, drummer of The Jazztronauts, the band succeeds in not just playing songs but creating the atmosphere in which they dwell. Adding to the sonic landscape on past recordings is Will Schalda on piano/keys (Billy Swivs) […]

Everyone has a favorite record store. When you walk in you know who is behind the counter, you know which bin is going to have your favorite records, and you know when they stock the new records. Record stores have been a staple in the music industry for years and have had the most turbulent […]

Canadian guitarist Jocelyn Gould’s Golden Hour is her follow-up to her Juno-winning 2020 debut Elegant Traveler.  Gould works with a core quartet augmented by saxophonist Jon Gordon on three tracks, as she features her virtuosic guitar in her style of swing, blues, soul, and groove, influenced by studying Wes Montgomery, Grant Green, Kenny Burrell, and […]

Trumpeter Bill Ortiz has been one of the Bay Area’s most valuable multi-genre artists for over four decades, having notably toured with Santana for 16 years since the Grammy-winning Smooth album. Yet, Ortiz’s resume offers authentic jazz and Latin cred too as he’s splayed with Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Tito Puente, and others […]

“This record is a whole world unto itself,” says singer/multi-instrumentalist Cat Colbert, one half of the daring new LA duo Alain Zane. “There’s all these different characters with all these different perspectives: the forlorn lover, the lonesome criminal, the omniscient narrator. All the players are there, all coming together in this symphony of souls.” When […]

Art radical and multi-platform creative visionary Santigold has announced her fourth album Spirituals due out September 9. In celebration, she has released a new single and video short, “Ain’t Ready”. Check out the song below with the Santigold song tattoos all over it.  Santigold shares, “‘Ain’t Ready’ is a song I started with Illangelo. Dre Skull and Sbtrkt came on board to help bring it home, another true […]

This year, we lost a rock and roll legend. Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins passed earlier this year, leaving a wake of grief and fond memories for fans and music as a whole. Since his passing, there has been an outpour of love and tributes, the 1,000-piece orchestra known as Rockin’ 1,000 performed a rendition […]

3x GRAMMY® Award-winning singer-songwriter/musician/producer Ben Harper has shared “We Need To Talk About It,” available now at all DSPs and streaming services. An official visualizer for the songs can be seen and heard below.. Produced by Harper and GRAMMY® Award-winner Sheldon Gomberg, “We Need To Talk About It” marks the first single from Harper’s eagerly anticipated fiercely […]

New Zealand singer-songwriter Marlon Williams has announced his third solo album, My Boy, out September 9th on Dead Oceans, and presents a new single/video, “Thinking of Nina.” My Boy is Williams emerging anew. Gone is the solemn, country-indebted crooner with the velvet voice – in his place comes a more playful, shape-shifting creature. Accompanied by a music video directed by Sports Team, […]

There’s a moment on the new The North Country single “Inside Outside,” when you hear the sounds of east coast’s Grizzly Bear and west coast’s Local Natives converge into an atmospheric soundscape sandwich of sorts. While they certainly arent’ middle for anything, North Country has earned a spot in the conversation for its pristine indie […]

The Beths have announced their new album, Expert In A Dying Field, out September 16th on Carpark Records, and share the new single/video, “Silence Is Golden.” On Expert In A Dying Field, Elizabeth Stokes’ songwriting positions her somewhere between being a novelist and a documentarian. The songs collected here are autobiographical, but they’re also character […]

Multi-award-winning UK tenor saxophonist and composer Binker Golding hasn’t even been on the scene that long but has risen quickly. You may best know him from the sax-drum duo where his partner is Moses Boyd. Golding also appeared on Charles Tolliver’s 2020 Connect, which, like this new one, was also on Gearbox where Golding delivered […]

Soulful singer-songwriter Chastity Brown turned heads with her 2017 debut Silhouette of Sirens so this follow-up, Sing to the Walls (out via Red House Records) comes with a high level of anticipation.  No one could have predicted the intervening events of these past five years, given the pandemic and the social/racial protests that occurred in […]

Now that billionaires are launching themselves into space -all a cover for testing their galactic escape pods no doubt- is it time that artists start making the same moves and make interplanetary folk music? Who are we to say but Maja Lena, the moniker and Swedish nickname of singer-songwriter Marianne Parish, decides to do just that on […]

The original members of Full Catholic started out in various parts of the country writing/performing music in whatever time/capacity possible while pursuing other jobs, etc. The band recorded their first demos in an Atlanta living room and began playing out when they could, mostly for friends around sweaty late-night bonfires. “Traveling Song”, an anthemic ballad off […]

In the latest Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle offers his illustrated commentary on Remember, the new album from Aunt Kelly, in his signature six-panel comic strip form. Click on the image for full resolution (best viewed on desktop):