For Mingo Fishtrap and the young audiences that flock to see them, what’s old is new again. Their live show lays its musical roots more in 1969 than in 2015, and their sound dances between gutbucket soul, New Orleans git-down funk, and […]
For Mingo Fishtrap and the young audiences that flock to see them, what’s old is new again. Their live show lays its musical roots more in 1969 than in 2015, and their sound dances between gutbucket soul, New Orleans git-down funk, and […]
Neo-soul. If you look for its definition, you’ll more than likely find pop singers who incorporate some hip-hop, some electronica, and some pulsating rhythms, all thrown in with a dab of revisionist soul. It’s not my cup of tea, as it […]
On “Far Away” – the first song on her self-titled 2005 debut – Martha Wainwright sings: I have no children I have no husband I have no reason to be alive Now, a decade later, Wainwright is a mother of […]
Few artists have the courage to go against what’s traditionally popular or mainstream. However, as the barriers of the entertainment industry begin to shift, many artists are taking more control of their content and creating powerful, dark and sometimes hilarious videos […]
Eric Kaz tells me his new collection of songs — which he hopes to have available in January at cdbaby.com — represents a milestone. “This was the first time in my recording career that I’ve been completely satisfied with my […]
It’s not every theatre experience that begins with a walk past an apparent beautiful corpse in a coffin, proceeds through a graveyard to the theatre auditorium, and then impresses with a rousing musical number performed by ghosts wielding an array of […]
Smart, literate, innovative, and endlessly creative, Texas-native Danny Barnes plays a mean banjo. For years, Barnes, who was the driving force behind Austin’s defunct and sorely missed folk-punkers, The Bad Livers, has been the go-to banjo man for artists like […]
On Tuesday, D.A. Pennebaker’s legendary and groundbreaking documentary of Bob Dylan’s 1965 tour of Britain, Dont (sic) Look Back, will be released and upgraded as part of the Criterion Collection. The film is available as either a blu-ray or 2 DVD […]
It was an idea for something he called mouth percussion. It was a simple overdub for a breathy vocal sound of an “aaah” repeated multiple times over several minutes of what would become the Zombies biggest called “Time of The […]
The blues are no joke. That’s what eclectic-soul singer Ironing Board Sam found at the end of his rope, nearly broke and burned out after a lifetime spent running around the edges of the music industry track. He’d lived in […]
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