The one-man band deal is pretty hard to pull off. I’ve heard quite a few that end up coming off as pretty corny. Biram, though, has the skills You May Also Like: How Black Country Communion’s Debut Brought Back ’70s-Style Hard Rock
Jon Cleary is a big enough fan, and an accomplished enough musician, to mix it up on this forthcoming tribute record — which is smartly subtitled “Having Fun with the Songs of Allen Toussaint.” You May Also Like: No related posts.
The Staves arrive as the very image of a twee sibling act — and you prepare yourself for another sweetly unthreatening batch of folk tunes. But this is an aptly titled EP, full of musical (and emotional) surprises. You May Also Like: Jenny Scheinman – Here on Earth (2017) JacksonRead More
Sometimes when it comes to listening to music, patience is a virtue… Imagine cueing up a record by a jazz bassist and being greeted with the ornate sounds of a timpani, harpsichord and bowed bass. You May Also Like: Eivind Opsvik – Overseas V (2017) Burnt Sugar the Arkestra ChamberRead More
Since its formation as the Len Paterson Trio in 2000, Bay Area funk-jazz outfit Flowtilla has been going against the grain when it comes to funk. You May Also Like: Flowtilla – Just Passing Through (2017) Charged Particles – ‘Live at the Baked Potato’; Mike Bogle – ‘Let There BeRead More
Bluesman Curtis Salgado, over a career that’s included stops with Robert Cray, Roomful of Blues and Santana, has always had an abiding love for R&B, hard soul and nasty funk. Soul Shot brings all of that together You May Also Like: Robert Randolph & the Family Band – Got SoulRead More
Over that past few decades, the consolidation of radio and record label ownership has had an “interesting” effect on record releases — they have become quite a bit more homogeneous You May Also Like: Tracy Chapman Smartly Updated Her Approach on ‘Our Bright Future’ Trombone Shorty Raced Beyond Genres onRead More
Steve Barton, who rose to college-radio fame with the Beatles-y new wave band Translator, scuffs up what has become a reliably sunny solo power pop sound on the new Projector. You May Also Like: No related posts.
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Three years ago, members of both the Midwestern jam band Umphrey’s McGee and the California based metal fusion band OHM formed a union inspired by some club jams that merited making a record full of original material conjured up by the band. You May Also Like: When Umphrey’s McGee CreatedRead More
