Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 29 May 2020. Equal parts passion, grit, and musical ecstasy, Sybarite5 is an intoxicating cocktail of post-genre musical goodness expressed through the virtuosity of Sami Merdinian and Sarah Whitney, violins; Angela Pickett, viola; Laura Metcalf, cello; and Louis Levitt,…
EOB is the moniker used by Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien for this debut solo venture, Earth, the music of which he has said was inspired by a year of living in Brazil with his family and, oddly enough, the 1991 album from the band Primal Scream, Screamidelica. While we’ve heard several solo albums from Radiohead’s…
Drakulas are an art-rock quartet who just recently released their sophomore full-length album Terminal Amusements. The group is made up of several experienced members with frontman Mike Wiebe (Riverboat Gamblers, High Tension Wires), guitarist Zach Blair (Rise Against, Hagfish) and a cast of musicians including bassist Rob Marchant and drummer Ian Walling from Riverboat Gamblers…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 15 May 2020. Kamasi Washington has released his original score for Becoming, the new Netflix documentary profiling First Lady Michelle Obama. Director Nadia Hallgren asked Washington to join the project very early in its development. The score features new…
Brendan Benson has the enviable position of being the other front man in the Raconteurs who shares the stage with Jack White, and the rhythm section of Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler. He shares half the vocals, plays guitar and somehow fades into the shadows every-time White steps to the microphone, or leans into one…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 8 May 2020. That’s How Rumors Get Started is the new release from Margo Price. The album of ten original songs commits her live shows to record for the very first time. Co-produced by Margo and longtime friend Sturgill…
In October 2002, the US districts of Maryland, Colombia and Virginia were under attack. Driveby sniper shootings were occurring in all sorts of locations – schools, petrol stations, convenience stores, front yards. Nowhere was safe. The FBI and state police scrambled all available to deal with the random attacks and initial thoughts as to who…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 1 May 2020. Damien Jurado’s new album What’s New, Tomboy? is now out on Mama Bird Recording co. and Loose Music. The album marks his second for the labels. Where last year’s In the Shape of a Storm stripped…
Since the band’s beginnings in 1988, founder and consistent member John Andrew Fredrick has now written and released eighteen The Black Watch albums; with Brilliant Failures being the latest. That’s a very long resume of indie rock for a band that still probably will be new to most. Well, maybe that will change if you…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 24 April 2020. Following acclaimed recordings of concertos by Dvořák and Shostakovich, the Norwegian violinist Eldbjørg Hemsing returns to her roots with Grieg: The Violin Sonatas. She’s joined by Simon Trpčeski at the piano. Each of Edvard Grieg’s violin…
