Creature Comfort have found a means of carving out their share of the Nashville music scene with their idiosyncratic blend of indie rock and Americana. On “Woke Up Drunk”, acoustic fingerpicking and yearning electric tones mesh with ebullient strings, steady… Read More
Sinuous grooves and heated horns come hand-in-hand with Staten Island’s Budos Band, as their many fans — Madonna, Iggy Pop, and the Wu-Tang Clan among them — know well. The eight-piece group has spent the last 15 years making instrumental… Read More
A small grace: for all of the terrible things that have befallen the music industry owing to COVID, the Late Night Tales compilation series continues unabated. Originally founded as the Another Late Night series in 2001, released by Azlui Records,… Read More
Nostalgia looms large throughout the first vinyl edition of Dakar-based group Orchestra Baobab’s 2002 comeback release Specialist In All Styles. Out on World Circuit in celebration of the group’s 50th anniversary – and, sadly, just after the recent and sudden… Read More
Flõstate are an electrosoul duo comprised of producer MKSTN and singer-songwriter Avery Florence that create a mesmerizing downtempo number with “Home Ground”, their follow-up single to “Time”. Beginning with gentle chimes and warm piano tones, the song seduces from the… Read More
Familiar as I am with the paradoxes of life in modern industrial housing, that the more humans are packed into concrete compartments the more atomised they become, such spaces are conceived through ideas about modern utopias and socialist dreams. Irrespective… Read More
Stellie – “Colours” (premiere) Photo: Jackson Thornbury / Courtesy of artist Australia’s Stellie is a rising alternative pop singer-songwriter that received more than 700,000 streams of her 2019 single, “Love Me First”. That’s down to her smart, emotionally engaging songwriting… Read More
London’s WheelUP is a producer reviving the broken beat sound of the 1990s, blended with plenty of drum ‘n’ bass, and a modern sensibility. His new EP Wanezi (an ode this Zimbabwean spiritual homeland) is out tomorrow via Tru Thoughts,… Read More
Don’t push me ’cause I’m close to the edge I’m trying not to lose my head It’s like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder How I keep from going under – Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, “The Message”… Read More
Most books about punk rock are maddening. This is because of the beautifully human paradox at the heart of punk itself: punk ideology becomes corrupted when punk praxis achieves any kind of modest success. This principle seems to hold across… Read More