Michael Franti and Spearhead’s music is not focused on the intricacies of instrumental deconstruction, digestion and discovery, but rather by the not so hidden truth that music can bring positive change through...
We all have heard the comparisons: Motown, Janis Joplin, Grace Potter, Aretha Franklin and the list goes on. I’m not here to tell you those comments are on the left, for they are most certainly right....
When jazz funk is played properly and soulfully, it is one of the greatest combinations of musicology, sound and rhythm. Despite the music theory, jazz funk at its finest just sounds and feels so, pardon my...
Change – To make or become different (verb). It’s a rarity for an album to have songs with vast differences in tone, instrumentation, method, tempo and direction without sounding like a CD compilation created...
The Royal Noise takes us on a time traveling adventure to a distant future where vehicles are flying, people are teleporting, holographic communication has taken precedent, and the soundtrack to our lives,...
Seasoned musicians, the Max Allen Band, drops beautiful eargasmic thunder sending electrical impulses through the body causing involuntary movement of body and limb, known to the rest as dance.
Ever the innovators in the reggae genre, John Brown’s Body continues in their tradition of reshaping a form that could easily stagnate and cycle back on old styles.
Featuring a remarkable combination of likable charm, soaring vocals, and robust compositions that
blend genres in seamless ways, “Whale Hail” proves to be an excellent discovery.
Supported by the framework of producer Tim Carbone (Railroad Earth) and a list of guest musicians (among others, Leftover Salmon’s Andy Thorn on banjo and Infamous Stringdusters’ Andy Hall on dobro), Whitewater...
