Results for "Mike Watt"

Mike Watt

Sounds The Color Of Grounds

By Mike Watt

Label: Otherly Love Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Deliverdance; From Couplets To Corpuscles; The Hasta Cloth; What Was Cut From The Negative Space; Occluded Ostracized and Onanistic; The Part You Kept Art; Tchotchkes; The Lonely Sail (featuring Jonathan Moritz); Lickspittle Spatter.

Three-Layer Cake: Sounds The Color Of Grounds

by Mark Corroto
June 29, 2025

The trio of Mike Watt, Brandon Seabrook and Mike Pride began as a pandemic-era experiment, exchanging music files remotely to create Stove Top (RareNoise, 2021). Now, as Three-Layer Cake, they return with Sounds The Color Of Grounds, a record that reveals a fully realized and cohesive jazz-punk--or perhaps punk-jazz--ensemble. Watt, etched into punk rock's ...

Nels Cline: The Shape of Sound

by Leo Sidran
March 20, 2025

For nearly two decades, Nels Cline has been best known as the mercurial, shape-shifting guitarist of Wilco, a role that has introduced his name to legions of fans and placed him at the center of a beloved and influential American band. But to reduce Cline's career to his work with Wilco would be to miss the ...

Human Reaction

By MSSV

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Say What You Gotta Say; French Road Drifters; Baby Ghost (from the 1900s); Pillow Talk; Human Reaction; Junk Haiku; Pity Parody; In This Moment.

Mendoza / Hoff / Revels: Echolocation

by Troy Dostert
October 3, 2023

Among today's leading guitarists fusing the power of rock and avant-garde jazz--a list that has to include Nels Cline, Marc Ribot, Mary Halvorson and Brandon Seabrook--Ava Mendoza may be the one with the strongest link to the punk tradition. All the evidence one needs is on Echolocation, a project by Revels, her close collaboration with bassist ...

Alex Sadnik: Flight

by Jeff Schwartz
May 8, 2023

What is new to say through Charlie Parker's music? On Flight Alex Sadnik looks for answers with two different bands. On the first side of the LP, his alto fronts a quintet with violin, pedal steel guitar, bass,and drums, but this is not a Bob Wills or Bill Frisell pastiche. The opening track, ...

Three-Layer Cake: Stove Top

by Chris M. Slawecki
January 6, 2022

If nothing else, the trio of Mike Pride (drums, marimba, glockenspiel, bells, organ), Brandon Seabrook (guitar, banjo, tapes) and Mike Watt (bass) deserves a “truth in advertising" award, because Stove Top, their first collaboration, is precisely that: a three-layer instrumental cake. Stove Top began cooking when Pride appeared as a guest on Watt's podcast. ...

Stove Top

By Brandon Seabrook

Label: RareNoiseRecords
Released: 2021
Track listing: Beatified, Bedraggled and Bombed; Big Burner; A Durable Quest; Shepherds; Tiller; Primary Fuel; Luminous Range— Anxious Valve; Ballad Of The Gobsmacked.

Rediscovery and Re-Creation, and an NYC Farewell

by Chris M. Slawecki
December 26, 2021

Greg Abate Magic Dance: The Music of Kenny Barron Whaling City Sound 2021 Musicians will sometimes honor another musician who influenced their lives or work with a tribute or memorial recording after that influential musician has passed on. There's an abundance of first-rate music on the ...