Archive: 2022

After a full day at the Fairgrounds to celebrate the return of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival the NOLA Summit returned to the Howlin’ Wolf on April 30th after two years of cancellations. With a lineup of local players, the second running of the Summit showcased New Orleans bands playing originals and tributes […]

The Los Angeles quartet Warpaint has steadily moved from their more rock roots towards an electron-based, soft synth, dream-pop sound, and now on their fourth studio album, Radiate Like This, the transition is complete. Their first offering in six years is full of relaxed bass pulses, skittering beats, and restrained smokey soundscapes.  Emily Kokal (guitar, […]

The early phases of British guitarist Jeff Beck’s solo career proceeded in fits and starts, due in no small part to the same temperamental nature that got him fired from the Yardbirds (where he had succeeded Eric Clapton on the recommendation of old friend Jimmy Page). Yet there were also twists of fate that, in […]

In a new weekly roundup, Glide drops caustic commentary on selected tracks from release day Friday Toro y Moi – “Days in Love” Chaz Bear will probably never reach the heights of his first three albums again, he’s realized he doesn’t need to. As long as he keeps brandishing himself on the covers of these […]

Today, almost every college and university has an online portal where students can access different course materials. To accommodate students’ diverse needs, including part-time work, these higher academic institutions had introduced online classes where tutors can interact with students for educational purposes (before, many learners had to address professional essay writing services like Wr1ter for […]

Tamara Lindeman, who records and performs under the moniker The Weather Station, took the stage at Brooklyn’s Music Hall of Williamsburg to a round of cheers, but as she knelt down center-stage – microphone in hand, head bowed – a hush quickly swept over the crowd until every rustling jacket and shuffling foot could be […]

Big Thief invites us all to band practice with an intimate living room performance of “Certainty” on The Late Show with James Corden.  If you’ve tuned in to any independent radio stations since January, chances are pretty high you’ve heard the instantly recognizable, muted drum roll introduction to Big Thief’s “Certainty”. One of the first singles […]

Old Settler’s Music Festival returned to Tilmon, Texas April 21-24 with a lineup that featured a hefty mix of bluegrass, Americana, folk, rock, soul and everything in between. All photos by Amy E. Price.

On their debut, Seratones were a raucous garage rocking outfit with a side of boogie-woogie. For their follow up, Power, they moved towards a slick, experimental R&B, and electro-pop sound in the vein of the Alabama Shakes. Now on their third full-length release, Love & Algorhythms, the band has left the rock in the past […]

Robin Trower’s No More Worlds to Conquer echoes his string of splendid albums in recent years such as Time and Emotion and Where You Are Going To. But this latest by the British guitar hero may most closely align with its immediate predecessor, 2019’s Coming Closer to the Day, not just by the apparent contradiction […]

Since its 2012 release, Melody Prochet’s self-titled debut album as Melody’s Echo Chamber has quietly become a modern classic. This is partly due to producer Kevin Parker’s ascendence to the main stage with Lonerism’s release that same year, but (aside from the music itself) due in large part to the mystery behind Prochet’s development. While […]

Erika Lewis is known to most as the vocalist for the traditional jazz and swing band Tuba Skinny from New Orleans but started busking on the streets before joining several bands including The Magnolia Beacon and The Lonesome Doves who have plied the same path of classic country to cosmic Americana to dreamy indie-folk as […]

The late Bill Evans was the proverbial force of nature, operating with the utmost distinction in the milieu of modern jazz for a quarter-century. A prolific recording artist and rigorous road warrior, he repeatedly rose above personal travails until his tragic passing in September of 1980. At that point, he had already left us much […]

Copenhagen’s Iceage has presented a new single, “All The Junk On The Outskirts,” and has announced d a co-headline US tour with Earth. The rollicking song was tracked during the recording sessions that formed their 2018 album Beyondless and has been rattling around the band’s ether since then. They revisited the track in 2021 and finished recording it this year. “I […]

Today, Wilco announce their new album, Cruel Country, out May 27th via dBpm Records and present their new single, “Falling Apart (Right Now).” Cruel Country, a substantial two-disc exploratory work, arrives the same weekend as the band’s beloved Solid Sound Festival in North Adams, MA, where they will perform the album for the first time. Early on, coming out of Uncle Tupelo, there was the idea […]

David Knudson the guitarist and founding member of Minus the Bear has spent most of his adult life composing and playing complicated and heralding sonic explorations reminiscent of Kraut and post rock’s finest moments. With the recent conclusion of Minus the Bear, Knudson will be releasing his debut solo album The Only Thing You Have to […]

It took a long time for Brooklyn musician John Brodeur to find himself. After releasing several little-heard solo albums, Brodeur first imagined Bird Streets as a live band in 2016 before taking the moniker as a de facto nom de guerre with the release of the self-titled 2018 LP. And that’s when things clicked.“I used to write about finding ways […]

It’s no secret that tragedy, rough times, and heartaches are the unfortunate muses behind many of the world’s most beloved albums. The raw feelings and emotions felt after hardships require a release that the feelings of contentment and happiness don’t normally demand, and as a result, we live in a world full of more great […]