I was hipped to Michael Kiwanuka in Paris a couple of weeks back with only the caveat of “you’re going to fucking love this.” It’s true, I do. I’ll spare you the laundry list of influences only to say that it’s about time someone picked up the torch from Terry Callier and Bill Withers. Highly [...]
Sometimes you need an album that kicks down the fucking door. This is one such album. A little history: Electric Mud was produced by Marshall Chess and released in 1968 in part to rein in a new audience weaned on the burgeoning wave of psychedelic rock whose progenitors both aped and worshiped at the temple [...]
We need a myth. So insists Will Sheff on the track of the same name, and he’s right. We need a myth, a narrative, something upon which to plot the flags planted in each new territory of our understanding. Some way to compare ‘this’ to ‘that.’ A way of understanding the world, even when the [...]
Megafaun’s Phil Cook has had another run in with nature. During the recording of his 2009 eponymous debut he battled a violent thunderstorm. This time around, “Mother Nature” has locked him in a room and asked him for more. With guitar, banjo, and dobro in hand, Phil Cook and His Feat offer up Hungry Mother [...]
Aquarium Drunkard favorite Richard Buckner is one of America’s greatest living singer-songwriters, but he’s been awfully quiet for a while now. We recently caught up with Buckner, prior to his show, in the parking lot of The EARL in Atlanta. Buckner gave us the skinny on his silence and the lowdown on the his new [...]
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can now be heard twice, every Friday – Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. SIRIUS 192: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ The Shaky Hands – Why And How Come ++ Ganglians – Jungle ++ The Bicycles – B-B-Bicycles ++ Monster Rally [...]
When Fleet Foxes EP and, quickly thereafter, self-titled long-player were released in 2008, it was easy to presume that maybe that was it—that their debut would be the highest note they’d hit. Folk harmonizers have been an anchor of popular music as we know it for decades, but recent history hasn’t had a great place [...]
The Sea and Cake has been at it for 20 years. In that time they’ve managed to create an arsenal of fantastic and progressive jazz-pop records. What’s interesting is that their body of work actually resembles very little compared to what we experience as day-to-day music fans. You don’t hear new acts name-checking The Sea [...]
It’s been awhile. Following a prolonged absence from the studio, singer-songwriter Richard Buckner returns August 2nd with Our Blood, his first LP since 2006′s Meadow. First taste off the album, “Traitor,” below. Welcome back. MP3: Richard Buckner :: Traitor —————— _____________________________________________________________________________________
In case you missed it, we’re fully committed to Destroyer’s latest long-player, Kaputt. More often than not, fresh material from artists I closely follow ends up playing a dual role. Besides the obvious interest in the new record, song, etc, it—and this is just as important—often revitalizes interest in their earlier work. The latter has [...]
