Archive: 2024

The 24-year tenure of New York’s longest-running hard-bop supergroup, the sextet All for One, is now 17 albums strong. This run is marked with long hiatuses between albums, including almost eight years between this, Big George, and 2016’s The Third Decade. Such breaks are understandable given the status and in-demand nature of the lineup comprised […]

Pavement will be releasing Cautionary Tales: Jukebox Classiques  a limited-edition box set featuring the band’s complete catalog of 7” singles released 1989-1999 on physical release July 12th with digital release on March 13, 2024. It will include 18 records total, covering music originally released on Treble Kicker, Drag City, Matador, Big Cat, and Domino. All […]

Ben Crane is a singer/songwriter based in Brooklyn by way of Southern California. His latest album Spun Honey explores everything from anti-folk to country and Americana roots. A fervent performer, Crane can be seen in venues across NYC and beyond both solo and with his other band, funk/disco army Every Flavor Weather Machine. Crane pieces together folk […]

Today, the Pitchfork Music Festival announces its full 2024 lineup, including headliners Alanis Morissette, Black Pumas, and Jamie xx. The festival returns to Chicago’s Union Park this summer, Friday, July 19 through Sunday, July 21. The Festival kicks off on Friday with Black Pumas, Jai Paul, 100 gecs, Jeff Rosenstock, Yaeji, Sudan Archives, Amen Dunes, […]

Artists spend their whole lives creating their debut. Taking every bit of turmoil and joy in their lives and setting it to unique melodies meant to introduce this artist to the world. There is a lot of pressure, to say the least, but one could argue a solo debut from an established band member doubles […]

With her enchanted voice and evocative songwriting, Leslie Mendelson has won over the hearts and minds of both an adoring fanbase and fellow artists alike. No less than Jackson Browne has declared, “Leslie’s melodies are timeless. They reach me way back in my youth somewhere. I hear traces of Burt Bacharach and Carole King, and […]

Pushing our spotlight on Irish bands to it’s questionable limit this week, today we offer up this peculiar performance from a band you’ve probably never heard of: The Sultans of Ping (which, yes, is a play on the Dire Straits song “Sultans of Swing”). The band’s relative obscurity outside of Ireland probably has a lot […]

Ministry along with opener Gary Numan offered a dark collage of industrial and new-wave at the Fillmore in Minneapolis, MN on 3/9/24. Ministry recently released their most well-received album in years Hopiumforthemasses, while Numan continues to gain new generations of fans with his influential synthesizer hooks. Photos by Billy Briggs  

It’s difficult to believe that saxophonist and composer Charles Lloyd hasn’t delivered a studio recording since 2017’s Vanished Gardens and Tone Poem, given his prolific output of live offerings, all of which we have covered on these pages. That alone makes The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow important but beyond that, this may well […]