These Brit pop rockers are ready to let the world in on what promises to be the next big moment in the history of Rock music. Watching them, you feel like you are in a dream. You aren’t sure whether to rock out, just close your eyes and sing along or stand and let the music take you. But even beyond the indulgence of a live show, their debut record,…
The singer-songwriter Mia Doi Todd, from Los Angeles, has her own connections to bossa nova. But she’s not into jazz harmony; she’s into the folk drone. “Gea” (City Zen), her lovely new record, combines the soft dynamics of classic bossa nova – its perfect sung diction, modest string-section arrangements and inner-directed charisma – with good old American transcendentalism. She strums a single guitar chord for long stretches of time, carefully…
RAINER TRÃœBY is a man of passions and a fountain of knowledge. His encounter with the JAZZANOVA crew in the early 90s has been a lucky and fruitful one. RAINER TRÃœBY shared with them his erudition in music from old jazz classics and house rarities to the newest music productions. Musicians and DJs such as DIE FANTASTISCHEN 4 or BBC 1’s radio legend GILLES PETERSON also gained a lot from…
Cooley is a multi-faceted rap artist and media producer. Having just returned from Korea, headlining two packed shows of nearly 1,000 fans, he is planning a return Asia tour for July 2007. Cooley has turned out crowds in New Mexico, Texas, and Georgia. But, most importantly all over Northern California at clubs including Velvet Lounge, Lamia, Simone’s, The Apollo Theater, Spy Club and Kimball’s East and more. Cooley, aka Corwin…
Following on from the success of such exotic compilations as their Paz e Futebol tribute to one of their biggest influences, Brazilian music, and the German Jazz samplers, Forum West Focus Jazz – The Wewerka Archive 1966-1969 and Romanian Jazz – JAZZANOVA now bring you another very special collection: this time the subject is Cuban Jazz.
The collective of musicians & singers with the leadership of Style Scott and Adrian Sherwood is here presented in a 74 minutes Rob Smith megamix coming along with vocal contributions by Capleton, Luciano, Junior Reid, Big Youth, Cedric Myton, a.o.; – this is the ultimate chance to dub the house for a very consumerfriendly price!DUB SYNDICATE was probably the most “futuresized†roots dub band since ADRIAN SHERWOOD (Hit Run &…
The Shirts for a Cure Project is proud to announce this year’s SXSW day party will feature Hot Water Music, Paint It Black, Dead To Me, The Gaslight Anthem and Drive By. This will be Hot Water Music’s ONLY appearance during SXSW. This FREE event will be held at Red 7 (611 East 7th Street) on Friday March 14th, doors open at noon sharp.
Award winning singer-songwriter-guitarist, Joe Calderone, has just released his self-written and self-produced CD, IT TOOK A WHILE. This album offers a diverse mix of pop rock, folk rock and pop mainstream filled with strong vocals and solid musicianship triggering universal appeal. Anyone who’s ever been in love, seeking love or has ever lost love should easily relate. Joe Calderone has been writing and performing music for over twenty five years.…
Excitement over Evangelicals new album has been building since its release on January 22nd. In Mojo’s four star review they describe “The Evening Descends” as “the aural equivalent of staring through intermittent fog” while Pitchfork gave it an 8.3 and a Recommended stamp of approval. And this is just the beginning. We are pleased to share the first video from “The Evening Descends,” in which the song “Midnight Vignette” is…
The Americans: Howie Kane, Marty Sanders and Sandy Deanne started the group in the early 1960s, and earned back ownership of the name, “Jay and the Americans†after their second lead singer David Blatt sold it to them. The new Jay is really named Jay, “Jay Reincke,†and he’s a Chicago guy. On stage he’ll remind you of that nice high school guy who sang lead in choir and was…
Sham Pain hits the streets with a HOT CD filled up with 17 blazing tracks which encompasses a plethora of topics and guaranteed club bangers mixed with clever punch lines and real life situations. Still unbelievably, he is an unsigned artist but has managed to set up his own Record Label – gRock Records, Film Company – gRock Films, Publishing Company – Sham Pizzall Music (ASCAP), Production company – Beat…
DAVE COUSINS of STRAWBS is calling his first ever U.S. solo tour, STORIES AND SONGS because he is a storyteller. He is supporting two albums. SECRET PATHS is due in March, and features Melvin Duffy, who played steel guitar with Robbie Williams, Joe Cocker and Zucchero. His other recent release is THE BOY IN THE SAILOR SUIT, his second solo album in his nearly 40 years of recording. BOY IN…
JOE DENINZON & STRATOSPHEERIUS… Joe has been experiencing both healthy and unhealthy adventures recently. Carol, at the Jamestown club, Carol’s Silver Dollar, named a drink after his band. “The Stratos Shot†combines Vodka (preferably Russian in honor of Joe’s place of birth), Purple Pucker and 7-Up.
Over the last dozen years, Sean Costello has become one of the most exciting singer-songwriters and guitarists on the blues scene, putting a deeply personal imprint on classic soul, blues, and roots rock sounds. With his gold top Les Paul itself an iconic link to postwar blues heroes like Muddy Waters and Guitar Slim, and the signatures it bears – from Jody Williams and Robert Lockwood Jr., two of the…
Carl Palmer, drummer extraordinaire and founding member of Emerson, Lake & Palmer; Asia and The Carl Palmer Band; has recently had a successful heart operation carried out at an undisclosed hospital. Palmer, 57, had an angioplasty procedure done which is designed to prevent further narrowing of an artery in his heart by insertion of a stent. “I am happy to say the procedure was a complete success and I am…
Inspired by a love for Public Enemy, The Specials and the Clash, Barry Ashton (formerly of Ceasefire) and Jason O’Bryan (formerly of Déjà Vu) have created a one-of-a-kind groove that will give you all the skank and body-shaking beats you’ll ever need. Formed about a decade ago in West London, the Dub Pistols have become a name recognized around the world with an impressive repertoire, which include 3 full length…
The 26-year-old Amsterdam artist has never been more focused as she prepares to explore the U.S. market. Artist Cinnamon Brown is destined for a fulfilled life in music. Born Cindy Limon, May 21, 1981, in Amsterdam, the R & B, Hip Hop and Pop singer/songwriter is the daughter of parents who hail from the Caribbean nation of Suriname. She derives her artist moniker from the first letters of her first…
The Jealous Girlfriends make it work. The Brooklyn four-piece pull together the tunefulness of Anglo New Wave and BritPop, the aggression and energy of Washingtonian indie rock – both district and state – and infuse it all with a little soul, working an alchemy that transforms these base musical elements into songs crackling with tension and excitement that are instantly memorable while revealing something new with every listen.
Features SpankRock & Produced By Chris Zane (White Rabbits/Asobi Sesku/Les Savy Fav) The NME declares, “Shy Child are to Kraftwerk what The White Stripes are to Led Zeppelin!†And here is their story… Nate Smith (Drums) and Pete Cafarella (Vox/Keytar) met at Wesleyan University in the mid-90’s where Nate had invited Pete to join his band. Although Pete was kicked out a few days later the two formed a fast…
Just because a CD will hold 80 minutes of music doesn’t mean it should. Ten songs totaling just over 25 minutes in length, Long Gone and Nearly There, the debut album from Washington D.C.-based quartet Julie Ocean makes a case for fast over fatuous, poppy over prog, and concise over complicated. The album is being released by Transit of Venus, distributed in the U.S. by RedEye.