new release Archive
19 Oct 2021
Album Review: Mr. Sipp — Sippnotized
Mr. Sipp is the nom de blues of Castro Coleman. The 2014 International Blues Challenge winner is also known as “The Missisippi Blues Child.” Sippnotized is the fourth long-player from […]
18 Oct 2021
Album Review: Altered Five Blues Band – Holler if You Hear Me
Jeff Taylor has a big voice. In the tradition of the great blues shouters, Taylor is a commanding presence. But he’s merely one of five ingredients in the recipe that […]
17 Oct 2021
Album Review: Dewa Budjana — Naurora
The potential downside of remote recording is that – when it’s not done well, which is often – it can robe the music of the feel of of spontaneity, the […]
16 Oct 2021
Album Review: Sorrows – Love Too Late…the real album
Here’s a record with a helluva story. After making an excellent melodic rock album in 1980’s Teeenage Heartbreak, Sorrows (no “the”) went to England to record their second LP with […]
14 Oct 2021
Mdou Moctar Plays By His Own Rules
The digital age brought with it some fundamental shifts in music industry paradigms. Tuareg guitarist and songwriter Mdou Moctar was a beneficiary of those changes, leveraging them to catapult himself […]
13 Oct 2021
Combo Chimbita: The Music Tells the Stories
It was five years ago when the four Colombia-born members of Combo Chimbita released their debut EP, El Corredor del Jaguar. At the time — and for a couple of […]
12 Oct 2021
For Destroy Boys, The Personal is Political
Co-led by guitarist Violet Mayugba and singer Alexia Roditis, Sacramento punk band Destroy Boys debuted with the 2015 studio EP Sorry Mom. The band’s profile got an early boost when […]
10 Oct 2021
Album Review: Elder Jack Ward – Already Made
Growing up as a suburban white kid, my preconceptions regarding gospel music were fairly well-formed. I wasn’t especially receptive to the messages conveyed in the music, and – on the […]
09 Oct 2021
EP Review: Lynx Deluxe — Jungleland
Here’s something different. Lynx Deluxe’s Jungleland is a five-song EP that builds its sound around heavy beats. Not the electronic kind, though; this is no hip-hip or electro endeavor. Real […]
08 Oct 2021
Album Review: Sour Ops — X
Say it loud: power pop and proud! Readers of this online music magazine will know that while I approach it with guarded optimism, I do like me some power pop. […]