Exclusive stream: Elizabeth Shepherd, “What’s Happening” from Signal (2014)
She will change your perceptions of what a “jazz vocalist” in this day and age means.
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One Track Mind: Jerry Garcia Band, “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” from GarciaLive: Volume Four (2014)
Jerry Garcia’s take is simply enveloped in an atmosphere of absence.
The Ugly Beats – Brand New Day (2014)
Spartan but sturdy arrangements, capped with hummable choruses and spiky breaks.
Steely Dan Sunday, “Kind Spirit” (1980?)
Another unfinished diamond in the rough that evokes a feeling of what could have been.
Is this ambient track from Pink Floyd concerts part of the new Endless River album?
Their atmospheric, unreleased ‘Big Spliff’ sessions apparently sparked a new project.
Nick DeRiso’s Mid-Year Best of 2014 (R&B, Jazz and Blues): Paul Rodgers, Rebirth, Walter Trout, Brad Mehldau, Wilko Johnson + Roger Daltrey
Little other than a sense of soul holds this list together. That’s more than enough.
Micky Dolenz pushes back on criticism of early Monkees recordings: ‘So many groups used studio musicians’
The Monkees, in fact, employed the same sidemen as the Beach Boys, and the Byrds.
‘Such an amazing band’: Adam Lambert selects his all-time favorite Queen song
In the midst of a world tour, Lambert has been working with Queen since 2009.
There’s more to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon than its trippy music: ‘Astonishingly relevant’
A key element to the album continues to resonate, Nick Mason says.
Street Priest – More Nasty (2014)
Here in ‘Merica, we covet our freedom and we root for the underdog. And we like brash. Therefore, the free-funk, noise band out of Oakland that call themselves Street Priest is as American is, well you know, Grandma’s apple pie.
