New York native Samia Finnerty has announced her debut album as Samia, The Baby, due out August 28 via Grand Jury. It includes previous single "Is There Something In the Movies," as well as brand new single "Fit N Full," which Samia's… Read More
Two NYPD SUVs drove right into a crowd of people protesting George Floyd's death at the hands of police in late May, a horrific incident, captured on video, that Mayor de Blasio downplayed at the time, saying, "If those protesters… Read More
We knew for a while now that The Lawrence Arms were working on their first album since 2014's great comeback LP Metropole, and now the new album has officially been announced. It's called Skeleton Coast and it comes out on… Read More
Frank Zappa once famously declared, “Jazz isn’t dead, it just smells funny.” That line was uttered onstage for the sake of a good laugh, but there is some twisted truth behind it. To keep the genre alive and well –… Read More
Lake Street Dive/Cuddle Magic/Okkervil River members, Bridget Kearney and Benjamin Lazar Davis’ Still Flying has been received with wide critical acclaim since its release earlier this year. The record features music the pair created in Ghana during 2019 and includes… Read More
As the traditional narrative has it, Michael Jackson’s Dangerous album represented the end of an era: the death of pop and the rise, in its wake, of grunge, alt-rock, and hip-hop. Most critics point to the moment Nirvana’s Nevermind knocked… Read More
Main Source – “Live at the Barbecue” Foremost among 1991’s superlative beatcraft is Main Source’s LP Breaking Atoms. Astonishingly out of print for more than ten years until 2008, Breaking Atoms was the product of producer/MC Large Professor and Canadians Sir… Read More
Often times, a reunion album reminds you why you fell in love with a band in the first place, proves they've still got it, and helps re-establish the band as a force within an era that they had long been… Read More
Cities have begun to reopen (NYC is in the second phase of doing so) and some people are finding socially-distant ways to put on concerts, but the world of live entertainment as we know it is still far from back… Read More
As an artist, Lee Jones always seems to linger on the fringe of things. Sonically, his music is notable for its delicate qualities, its microtonal precision and attention to detail. His most well-known album is, after all, titled Songs for… Read More