It seems like every day I find a new favorite band and a new favorite song and today’s new fave is “Ride In” by New York duo baby chemist. Their disarmingly hilarious DIY video is above. This song thrills and chills big time. It is a high-spirited stallion-bouncing country and soul encounter. Please give it …
Intense upon intense. More intense than any other TV appearance by anyone on any show. And here’s a live clip from something called Go Fest in April of 2017 which breaks new ground in Festival gig intensity. Let’s stop kidding ourselves, Meg Myers owned the late teens. Let’s hope she dominates the 20s as well. …
Kimber wrote most of the lyrics for “First Song Dancer” at her favorite honky tonk called the Nashville Palace. Right as the first chord struck, one audience member was up on her feet. It didn’t matter that it was a slow night. She was right there with the band. The energy exchange between artist and audience is synergetic. We’re very thankful …
EMILY KING Shares “Teach You Featuring Sara Bareilles” New Acoustic Album Sides Out January 17 & Tour Kicks Off This Month “Look At Me Now” + Scenery Nominated for Grammys Photo credit: Shervin Lainez Emily King is starting off 2020 with a bang – today the New York singer-songwriter releases the exquisite acoustic version of her song “Teach You,” originally off her Grammy-nominated …
[Both “Still Good” and “Nudes” have amazing vocals, caustic lyrics, survivor sarcasm, and both are way better than good. Check them out immediately.] “Still Good” is a song about self-preservation and the things we tell ourselves in order to move past difficulty and sadness” says Tyra Jutai. “It’s about trying to hurt someone worse than …
Aurora ia a Norwegian singer-songwriter who knows where and when to have a concert. Check out the intimate yet open and always beautiful sylvanian venue here. It looks just like a forest in Oregon. Forests have power. Music has power. People have power. https://www.aurora-music.com/
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Today, Alice Merton has released her MINT +4 Deluxe LP via Mom+Pop Music. This is after the release of her highly acclaimed debut LP, MINT. Since its release, Alice has continued her “No Roots” sentiment as she performed at Coachella, returned to Jimmy Kimmel, toured across multiple continents and is now a judge on The Voice of Germany. All of which …
French-Caribbean singer Adeline (pronounced ad-uh-leen) has released a sizzlin’ new summer jam, the disco-inflected burner “When I’m Alone”. Released July 26 on Razor-N-Tape Records, the single bundle includes remixes by Jaques Renault, Dirty Channels, and J-Kriv & Peter Matson. “When I’m Alone is my homage to disco,” says Adeline. “It’s a tribute to my heroes of the …
35 years ago today, Lindsay Buckingham’s Go Insane was released (7/3/84). To which I say, “only 35 years?” While this album was considered a low point for some, I listened to this album much more than any of the Fleetwood Mac offerings. The “Insane” title track has always been a motto and guidebook for my …
This is very strong, a rock solid tune with a powerful message. Listen well! ‘Rabbit Hole’ is the first single from SERA’s collection of songs for 2019 and from her new collaboration with producer Andi Bonsai. SERA played a mellow acoustic ‘Rabbit Hole’ on her guitar to Andi one wet and windy October morning and by the …
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The sheer desire to give love and to receive love is a sometimes forgotten human trait. Some people are givers, others are takers, and Priscilla The Outlaw is a giver, who has tired of the takers that burden her beating heart: “Still I dream the dream that lover’s dream. And I pray the prayer that …
Chills, baby, Chills… These songs are a punch to the uterus of all humanity… Janis Joplin, Patti Smith, Vilma Flood… This album is audacious, internal, personal, portable, emotive, routinely powerful, protruberant, bleakly beautiful, true, clear, expertly played, precisely recorded, deeply felt and extremely important… Prick up your ears and listen! Coming out of a 2 …
Maybe it’s the fatigue talking, but this has to be one of the most beautiful things I’ve seen in a long time. I especially like the petulant ladies beating the trash can lids at the very beginning. Kevin Morby, “OMG Rock N Roll” from the album Oh My God out Apr 26, 2019 on Dead …
Of the track, Liza gushes, “I relate to it strongly (I may have been late to set that day) – but I legit jammed out to the song via Spotify Pop Rising playlist before knowing I would be involved! I LOVE the song, I blast it in the car because it just makes me feel …
It’s nearly impossible to have a lousy time at a ska show. I’ve seen only a couple of ska bands really, but small sample size be damned; it would be madness not to move your feet My wife and I bounced around like a couple of kids Wednesday as the Cat Empire took over the …
Canada is a special place. It’s like the States but without the conspicuous leisure and homicidal violence. Only in an unspoiled place like the Great White North could Moon King incubate such an innocent gem as this short-ish dance film. Watch and learn. Celebrate life for a change. This video does. When talking about “Come …
Enigmatic alt-rock artist Meg Myers is back with an empowering cover of Kate Bush’s ‘Running Up That Hill,’ the first taste of her next project, slated for release later this summer. “Growing up, I was never really interested in covering other artist’s music.” Myers explains, “I always wanted to write my own songs because I …
Vesper Wood, the solo project of Christina Wood, will release Instar, a transcendent, soul-stirring debut album on March 1st. Originally from Kentucky via Germany and London, Wood is better known as half of the UK electro-pop duo Kaleida. Recorded in Bristol, UK with producer Ali Chant (Perfume Genius, Aldous Harding, Soccer Mommy, Jenny Hval), Instar …
Florida-based indie folk singer-songwriter Vesper Wood, the solo project of Christina Wood, has released another new single from her upcoming solo debut album Instar slated for release on March 1st. “Carson” is a raw, emotional track about being an outsider, inspired by the writer Carson McCullers. About the new single, Wood comments: “The tune has an American, nostalgic feel for me…and I tried to keep the …
Los Angeles powerhouse Lauren Ruth Ward, has turned heads with her stunning voice and 70s psych-glam swagger. In addition to releasing her critically acclaimed debut album Well, Hell, she has shared stages with Keith Urban, Shirley Manson, Eddie Vedder, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Shakey Graves and Liz Phair, and played to sold out crowds in LA & across the US. Lauren recently went …
This too is very important. Stop EVERYTHING and listen. The production, song arrangement, instrumental orchestrations and heavenly vocals were put here by God Herself: Vesper Wood, the solo project of Christina Wood, will release a debut album titled Instar on March 1st. “Descend” is the first single from that project. Originally from Kentucky via Germany …
“…his brain is squirming like a toad…. In a world where few things can still shock, Lauren Ruth Ward’s multipicity of Doors covers can at least pleasantly surprise by bringing a little post-millenial optimism to some psychedelic staples. Note well the upbeat guitars on “Love Street” and the unfailing Fender-Rhodes keys on “Riders on the …
The music of Abigail Lapell has beauty, optimism, texture, subtlety, power and gently humming overtones of transcendence. As soon as you hear her songs you will love her music. “Down By The Water,” (above) a lovely work of hopeful springtime chamber folk, evokes the fantasy of escaping to somewhere isolated and hiding from the world …
This song combines the intellectual and spiritual force of Kate Bush’s “The Man with the Child in His Eyes” with the dolorous echoes of George Winston’s December excursions and the crafted pop psychoses of Brian Wilson’s “Heroes and Villains.” Needless to say, it is a masterpiece. Eventually time will reveal that it has driven you …
Simply put, this is the best folk or pop recording of “O Holy Night” ever. Hannah’s voice, like a mighty decree gone forth from Caesar Augustus, confidently proclaims Messiah’s birth as three wise strings— mandolin, dobro and guitar— follow the star-seeking lyrics bearing gifts of golden light, frank innocence and mirthful texture. Nothing more need …
I saw Stuart Adamson and Big Country perform once, at Sacramento’s now-extinct Cattle Club. November 16, 1993, during their “Buffalo Skinners” tour. The Cattle Club wasn’t a huge venue, somewhere between Seattle’s Tractor Tavern and Showbox Theater in size. I was right up front in this packed room, and holey moley, ten years after their …
Here’s a great moment from five years ago. Lightning captured in a bottle. First song opens with references to Isaiah 9:6, the Bible text which, in an enormous transatlantic and cross-cultural musical coincidence, is one of the many high (and familiar) points in Handel’s Messiah.
So Portland has a grammy-winning artist now. Portugal. The Man won folk/pop duo/group performance for “Feel It Still.” Portugal. The Man locks down pop/duo performance Portugal. The Man at Grammys 2018: ‘We’re All About Hard Work’