Ray Barretto was already a giant in Latin music when he released Barretto in 1975. Born in New York to Puerto Rican parents, he had spent the previous two decades
When Geordie Greep suddenly announced the end of Black Midi last year, the math rock outfit he had founded in his teens and co-fronted, it was met with shock. After
Many fans and other music lovers who’d seen the Who live around the turn of the Sixties/Seventies might well have been disappointed with Live At Leeds, a concert album fifty-five years
Even given Bob Dylan’s self-professed discomfort about exactly who constituted his audience by the time the Eighties rolled around, it still defies logic he would attempt to connect with the MTV
On May 6th, indie band Momma hit Crescent Ballroom with an electric performance. Momma is fronted by singers Allegra Weingarten and Etta Friedman, who both hold a euphoric, yet familiar, charm
Considering the worldwide influence that the late Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat music has had on everyone from the Talking Heads to Arcade Fire and modern-day funk and hip-hop, it’s perplexing that
We’re over here, sweating and shoveling coal into the old Caustic steam engine as we barrel into a fantastic New Music Friday with an open mind and full of steam.
Much of the character of the modern world—and the source of many modern problems—stems from disparate things bumping together: borders, clashes of civilizations. And toxic pollutants and cleanliness. Such were
On her third record, and first for the Normaltown Records label, Kristina Murray is steeped in classic country and honky tonk. Leaning into heartache and loneliness, the Nashville-based songstress often
“How much difference does it make,” Eddie Vedder sang during the show-opening “Indifference,” a song usually reserved for a closing slot in a Pearl Jam set, but not tonight. A
