Manchester Orchestra Covers Cher’s “Believe”: Watch
A sign of a great song is when it can be built up or stripped down and it sounds right…
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Iravu on the Untold Story of Malaysian Black Metal and “A Fate Worse Than Home” (Interview)
One of the most famous quotes from Kentaro Muira’s “Berserk” is, like all aspects of the series, harrowing upon first…
Laurie Styvers: Gemini Girl: The Complete Hush Recordings Album Review
During a triptych of alternate versions and demos appended to Spilt Milk for this reissue, Styvers at last plays the piano…
Swizz Beatz, SAINt JHN, Fivio Foreign, BIA “Street Opera”
It’s showtime! Swizz Beatz commissions some of the game’s heavy hitters for “Street Opera”, the latest piece off the Godfather…
SunMan Unleashes Electrifying Pop Anthem ‘Bad For My Health’ in Latest Release
SunMan has just dropped their latest track, “Bad For My Health“, and it’s an electrifying pop anthem. With its intricate…
American Authors at the Troubadour on Wednesday, March 8 – buzzbands.la
Joe Giuliano on March 7th, 2023 (American Authors) NYC-based pop rock band American Authors is bringing their “Best Night of…
Governors Ball co-founders discuss their favorite memories from every year of the festival
Governors Ball returns for its 2023 edition on June 9-11 at a brand new NYC location, Flushing Meadows Corona Park…
Sessão de Verão 1: Subterrâneo : Aquarium Drunkard
In the early 2000s, Rob Mazurek, the American composer and cornetist, was recording a lot of music with his Chicago…
Belinda Carlisle’s Summer Rain is an 80s power ballad worth its weight in nostalgia | Music
It starts with a slinky, bass-licked groove before the vocals come in: “Whispering our goodbyes, waiting for a train /…
Shut Up, Dude: This Week’s Best Comments
It’s Bandcamp Friday and my recommendation is Games Of Power, the debut LP from Edmonton post-punk duo Home Front. RIYL…
These Beasts Soothe “Nervous Fingers” with Straight-Shooting Sludge Rock (Video Premiere + Interview)
Sludge metal often overlaps with its cousin stoner metal for a slow-burning concoction, but Chicago’s These Beasts have no time…
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Hype Machine has been introducing people to new music since 2005. Let’s keep it going. We are a team of…
Leonard Cohen: The Future Album Review
The Future’s liner notes begin with a quote from the book of Genesis, in dedication to De Mornay, and there…
Video: Lil Wayne Ft. DMX “Kant Nobody”
Carter season begins. Lil Wayne is untouchable on his new single, “Kant Nobody” featuring the late DMX. Opened with monologue…
Chicago-based Indie Artist Tala Silva Releases Empowering Alt-R&B Anthem ‘Call Back’ Inspired by a Year-Long Situationship”
Watch out for Tala Silva and the new track Call Back. Tala notes, “After a year-long situationship, full of broken…
Blondie, MUNA, the Breeders, Remi Wolf, Gabriels among artists adding SoCal shows – buzzbands.la
Kevin Bronson on February 22nd, 2023 From left: Momma (by Sophie Hur); Gabriels; Blondie at last year’s Cruel World Festival…
What's Going on Wednesday?
Wednesday’s NYC-area shows include Jack White, Elvis Costello, GloRilla, Otoboke Beaver, Miss Grit, and more. Continue reading… Source link
You’re A Ghost : John Cale’s Paris 1919, Re-Imagined : Aquarium Drunkard
“Paris 1919 is John Cale’s furthest excursion into musical imagination, illuminating horizons heretofore unsighted,” went the PR copy for John Cale’s third…
Why Earl Scruggs was the Beethoven of the banjo | Folk music
I spent a couple of months last year studying bluegrass in North Carolina, and I learned that there are is…
Black Country, New Road Share Performance Film ‘Live At Bush Hall’: Watch
After frontman Isaac Wood left the up-and-coming Black Country, New Road the week they released their sophomore album Ants From…
Making Time Makes Its Way to LA TONIGHT – Free w/ RSVP
So basically, Making Time is a Philly institution. If you look at my bio, I totally name check it because it’s been foundational for me. A girl that I had a huge crush on that worked at my favorite record shop invited me to a Making Time party. I went thinking I’d get with her, but ended up instead falling in love with the party. It was pre-blog culture, pre-hipsters, pre-Instagram 2000-2001. I used to go dance my head off every month to Dave P’s indie + Britpop sets and got to see bands like The Strokes, Trans Am and Adult waaaaaaayyy before they were bands anyone cared about. It was my HOME. And when I came to LA, I looked…
Two Great New Jazz Books from Taschen
Jazz Life by Joachim E. Berendt Two wonderful books have just been published by Taschen, known for its beautiful coffee table productions. The first, Jazz Life, chronicles a three month trip in 1960 across America by German jazz journalist and record producer Joachim Berendt and photographer William Claxton. Berendt wanted to experience jazz and American culture first hand and Claxton set up the tour, from New York City, through the South, and the LA scene, visiting musical capitals like New York City, Memphis, New Orleans, and Los Angeles. Claxton’s memorable photos capture more than just the jazz scene at the dawn of the Civil Rights era. Like Robert Frank‘s classic 1955 photo journey, it is a view of America and its culture that reveals …