You voted and picked your favorite albums of 2020. There were so many ties, here’s another example of where every vote counts! Keep an eye out for our monthly polls and vote for your favorite every month and then at the end of the year too. Look for some new music on the […]
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Richard Hell & the Voidoids – Destiny Street Complete – 2 CD For some, this may seem out of place but if assessed closely the punk aesthetic here is rooted more in American music than just an aggressive 3-chord progression of mindless entertaining junk. Kentucky’s Richard Hell (Richard Lester Meyers) is a singer-songwriter/bassist/writer & former […]
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You’ll find essential tracks on each of the six albums in Dire Straits’ recently issued clamshell-boxed set, The Studio Albums 1978–1991, which includes the British rock group’s eponymous 1978 debut plus Communique(1979), Making Movies (1980), Love Over Gold (1982), Brothers in Arms (1985), and On Every Street (1991). The CDs are packaged in mini replicas […]
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Disco influences infuses Pearl Charles’ country with a fantastical flare on Magic Mirror. “Only for Tonight” sets the stage for an adventurous romp through Charles’ insecurities and inevitable moments of triumph with hints of ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” in instrumentation and attitude. “What I Need” follows with Charles declaring “it’s easier to live this lie than to tell the truth, […]
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You could say that Corey Ledet was born to play music, and you wouldn’t be wrong. His grandfather Buchanon played drums for Clifton Chenier and Rockin’ Dopsie. Other members of his family played with the likes of Bobby Blue Bland and Louis Armstrong. Corey was the ripe old age of 10 when he first started […]
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In this big, mean ol’ world, sometimes the hardest thing to do is change. Especially when all about you seems to be falling to pieces, it can seem easier to dig your heels in and resist the obvious. Pennsylvania-based songwriter Jay Carlis wants to talk about that reluctance on his album Here We Are. Carlis […]
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The results from the readers’ vote for favorite November 2020 releases are in! This time we made it a top 15. Congratulations! The top three will be featured in our next playlist update by Laura Sikes. (Find the playlist any time, on our website’s homepage.) 1) Towne “In the In Between” 2) Teni Rane “Heart […]
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John John Brown’s streaming only release, Americana Comics, is newly up on Spotify now. A collection of well-crafted “storytelling songs inspired by real people” populate this release. Each of the seven songs has also been recreated as a comic book available through his website here: http://johnjohnbrown.com. Americana Comics features John John Brown on vocals and […]
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In a year of what seemed like, crisis after crisis, there was some absolutely remarkable music releases. As such, it seemed there were a lot of releases throughout the year that somewhat unceremoniously ended up lost in the reeds so to speak. One of those albums was Praise, the sophomore release courtesy of Frenchie’s Blues Destroyers. […]
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On January 8, Petite League released its fifth full-length album Joyrider. Petite League is a Hall-and-Oates-H2O kind of partnership between Lorenzo Gillis Cook who writes and sings all of the songs and plays all the guitars. On prior releases, but not the Joyrider album, he also did the art. Henry Schoonmaker plays the drums. Zeke […]
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