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James Booker's 'Classified: Remixed & Expanded' on Rounder Records
The Bayou Maharajah. The Piano Pope. The Ivory Emperor. The Bronze Liberace. Music Magnifico. Gonzo. The Piano Prince of New Orleans. James Booker coined more than a few extravagant nicknames for himself, and he lived up to every one of them. James Carroll Booker III was also an unheralded genius of American music, a New Orleans ...
Antonio Loureira Mixes Things Up, from Brazil to the Globe
“I didn’t want to make music that was exactly right. It makes me frustrated. I want to have fun. I want to play.” Antonio Loureiro is a man with a singular vision for his music. For the Brazilian multi-instrumentalist and singer, the magic exists in the moment, in spontaneity, where barriers between songs and instrumentals don’t ...
Slobber Pup: Black Aces
by Chris M. Slawecki
Keyboardist Jamie Saft, guitarist Joe Morris, bassist Trevor Dunn and drummer Balazs Pandi bring merciless new meaning to the phrase “heavy rock quartet." Saft and Morris first met at the New England Conservatory twenty years ago; Saft and Pani are bandmates in Metallic Taste of Blood; and Saft has worked with Dunn on several projects led ...
Six Stops Around the Whirled
by Chris M. Slawecki
Fort Knox Five 10 Years of The Fort Knox Five Fort Knox Recordings 2013 “All good things come in five, baby...You can't get around no prime number, you dig?" Some music just makes you feel good. You can't explain it but some music makes you feel like life's a ...
Newpoli: Music Beyond The Tarantula’s Bite
Sometimes you don’t understand what you have until you leave it behind. It can be people, places. It can even be the music. That’s definitely the case with Newpoli. When the founding members left Italy to study jazz at Berklee College of Music, they never imagined that they’d end up performing the folk music of their ...
SAM Releases Debut "Another Life" Split into Two Volumes
The progressive-rock improvising trio SAM, formed by bassist Julie Slick, guitarist Peter Alexius and Chapman Stick player Marc Mennigmann, announce to release of their debut album called Another Life split in two volumes. Both volumes will be available on BandCamp, iTunes, Amazon, CDbaby, and several other digital record stores. The release of a physical 2 CD ...
Bill Wyman Releases Limited Edition "Scrapbook" in North America
For the first time ever, rock and roll legend and founding member of The Rolling Stones, Bill Wyman is offering American music fans a unique glimpse into his extraordinary life with his limited edition luxury Scrapbook, soon to be available in North America. Signed by the man himself and certified for authentication, there are only 1962 ...
CBGB Soundtrack (Omnivore Recordings, Oct. 8) Features Legendary Punk Prototypes
By the end of 1973, New York City was bankrupt, Watergate had compromised the credibility of the U.S. government, and The Carpenters were the best-selling young recording act in America. Rock ’n’ roll was dead! The story of Hilly Kristal and his legendary club that put the punk back in rock will come to movie theaters ...
Publish the Quest Grooves on Inspiration from Southeast Asia to the Pulse of Africa
Femi Kuti waxes poetic with Seattle’s Publish the Quest members and bellows, “Gimme horns! Gimme horns!” opening the groovy pan-world pop band’s new album Then What!? (Late Night Sessions), and leading into the “Gimme hope! Gimme hope!” of Jacob Bain’s unrelenting optimism. Before you know it, you’re on your feet ready to dance and to sign ...
The Green Announce "Hawai'i '13" on Easy Star Records
Hawaii’s The Green are back with their anticipated new album, Hawai‘i '13, released worldwide on August 20 through Easy Star Records. Hawai‘i '13 is the band’s third studio album and was recorded and mixed with Danny Kalb (Ben Harper, Beck, Jack Johnson) mainly in Costa Mesa, CA, at Hurley Studios. Since the 2011 release of their ...
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