While NYC is slowly reopening from its coronavirus shutdown, plenty of particularly high-risk businesses, music venues and nightclubs among them, remain closed for the foreseeable future. With that in mind, it feels like a weird time to be trying to… Read More
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The American woodcock—colloquially referred to as a “timberdoodle” or “hokumpoke” in some areas—is a chubby, exhibitionist shorebird with stout legs and a long beak. When it scouts for worms, it rocks its body and stomps its feet in a funky… Read More
The title of Alice Ivy’s sophomore album is called Don’t Sleep, and after talking with the producer/DJ wunderkind otherwise known as Annika Schmarsel, it feels like an album title and more like a note she wrote to herself. “I feel… Read More
Nick Cave has been showing archival footage on his 24/7 Bad Seed TeeVee channel during this pandemic, but he hasn't done a new performance yet. That finally changes this month. He shot a new solo performance in June at London's… Read More
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Don’t go into Country Westerns’ self-titled debut expecting twangy back-porch music. Calling the group Country Westerns is a misnomer. The three-piece band from Nashville delivers riotous rock ‘n’ roll leaning more towards the Replacements than Dwight Yoakam. Drummer Brian Kotzur… Read More
Cities have begun to reopen 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 to normal. While you wait for concerts to officially… Read More
Congratulations on making it another week through 2020. As you may know, Notable Releases is about this week's new albums, but before I get to that, here's some stuff we ran on BV this week about older music to occupy… Read More
Texas singer-songwriter Joshua Ray Walker presents the myths we tell ourselves. Life is good. Love lasts forever. We are all heroes. And then he exposes the truth behind our shared fictions. Many of us are lonely, abused, and unhappy. True… Read More