the new mastersounds Archive
05 Nov 2025
The New Mastersounds: Goodbye But Not Farewell
This feature originally ran in Good Times ahead of the band’s October 23 date in Santa Cruz, CA. When guitarist Eddie Roberts and drummer Simon Allen launched the New Mastersounds […]
01 Oct 2024
30 Days Out, October 2024 #1: King Garbage, Richard Lloyd, Matthew Sweet, New Mastersounds
IMPORTANT NOTE: In light of the disaster in Western NC, please check with the venues. Some or all of these shows may be cancelled. WOW. That’s a succinct summation of […]
16 Aug 2024
Album Review: Introducing The Rare Sounds
I’ve written quite often about Eddie Roberts. There’s good reason for that: he stand tall among the music community as an artist who makes music that’s soulful, tasteful, appealing and […]
21 Nov 2022
Album Review: The New Mastersounds — The Deplar Effect
For more than two decades now, The New Mastersounds have been creating and refining their winning brand of fusion/funk/what-have-you. Right out of the gate, the result of their creative endeavors […]
29 Apr 2021
Album Review: Keb Darge Presents The New Mastersounds
As the leaders of the funk-soul boogaloo revival, The New Mastersounds have churned out along and impressive string of deep funk/groove albums, exploring the part of the musical Venn diagram […]
04 Oct 2019
Album Review: The New Mastersounds — Shake It
It may well not have been their explicit intention, but over the last two decades, the New Mastersounds have helped a strain of jazz to become mainstreamed into widespread popular […]
17 May 2016
The New Mastersounds Schedule Residency at Brooklyn Bowl
Dynamic funk/jazz fusion quartet The New Mastersounds recently came to Brooklyn Bowl for a three-day, four-show residency April 14-16. The group, founded in 1999 in Leeds, England, has been doing […]