The Embrooks – ‘We Who Are’ (2018)
The Embrooks’ highly anticipated ‘We Who Are’ represents a welcome, positive and long-overdue comeback.
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Beverley Beirne, jazz singer: Something Else! Interview
Beverley Beirne joins Sammy Stein to discuss her entertaining new album ‘JJWTHF: Jazz Just Wants To Have Fun,’ and the role of coincidence in her art.
Badfinger’s Joey Molland – The Pilgrim (1992): Forgotten Series
The specter of Badfinger manifests throughout, but ‘The Pilgrim’ ends up reinforcing Joey Molland’s ability to stand on his own.
Unit 4 + 2 – Unit Four Plus Two (1969): Forgotten Series
Emerging in an age when heavy rock was the happening thing, Unit 4 + 2’s self-titled 1969 album was unfairly deemed a dated anomaly.
Deejays – Coming On Strong: The Best of the Deejays (2018)
As far as I know, no legit reissue of England’s ’60s beat group the Deejays has been made widely available before this.
Clement Regert’s Wild Card – Life Stories (2018)
Like Wild Card itself, Clement Regert’s ‘Life Stories’ encompasses an exciting range of styles – from hard-bop and Afro-Latin, to New Orleans and raw funk grooves.
The Baron Four – Silvaticus (2017)
The Baron Four have an authentic, mid-’60s garage-punk American sound. There’s just one problem.
Biscay – Burnt Mementos EP (2017)
Jazzy, R&B-inflected pop — aka ‘yacht rock’ — is music that had its day in the USA through the 70s and into the early 80s but since then the UK became the main mecca for this kind of music. From the time that You May Also Like: Burnt Sugar theRead More
B-Leaguers – Death of a Western Heart (2016)
B-Leaguers’ ‘Death of a Western Heart’ is crammed to the finish line with hooky punk-pop songs along the lines of the Buzzcocks, Undertones and Green Day.
People Band, January 14, 2016: Shows I’ll Never Forget
If this gig at London’s Cafe Oto is anything to go by, we should be hearing the People Band for a long time to come.
