This year marks the 20th anniversary of the first time Daptone Records started marching to the beat of its own funky drummer. To celebrate, the imprint on Friday is releasing its Super Soul Revue, a distillation of a three-night […]
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Tré Burt released his first LP, Caught It From the Rye, in January 2020. Inspired by Oh Boy labelmate and hero John Prine, it established Burt as a singer-songwriter with a bright future ahead of him. With You, Yeah, You, […]
Props to Anderson East. With his first two albums, Delilah and Encore, he carved out a niche for himself at the nexus point of late-’60s, Stax Records-indebted soul and introspective alt-country. Anchored by a malleable voice that can alternate between […]
What’s even in a name, anyways? For a decade, Emily Frantz and Andrew Marlin recorded and performed under the name Mandolin Orange. Under that moniker, the duo cultivated a successful career in the folk circuit for themselves and their very […]
Summer. It’s the ideal time to get down and get funky. Of course, you need the right set of tunes for that. Enter Durand Jones and the Indications with the fantastic, groovalicious new LP Private Space. Led by co-lead vocalists […]
You can always count on Los Lobos to do it right. Few bands have managed to absorb as diverse a range of influences and process them into their own original sound quite as skillfully, successfully, or for as long as […]
John Darnielle has never exactly been sporadic with his creative output. His band The Mountain Goats reliably issues new albums every 12-18 months, and Darnielle has penned multiple novels, articles, and webzines besides. But lately, man, his musical synapses are […]
Lukas Nelson and his band, Promise of the Real, have carved out a nice little niche for themselves over the past decade, establishing themselves as purveyors of a sturdy, classic rock-and-country aesthetic. With A Few Stars Apart, Nelson and POTR […]
After the past few years, the unexpected has become something to dread. Something that wasn’t previously known or anticipated pops up and it’s cause for concern, not celebration. You can forget that sometimes, it’s a whole lotta fun to receive […]
It turns out that sometimes you can unring a bell. Look no further than Delta Kream, the new set of blues covers from The Black Keys, for proof of that. Since first embarking on a lengthy, well-publicized collaboration with producer […]
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