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Reviews of new music, video, concerts and music festivals.
BOOK REVIEW: PUSH TURN MOVE, Interface Design in Electronic Music
If you read our recent review of Patch & Tweak (also published by BJOOKS), you’ll know that...
Sunny War: Punk-Folk Guitarist on Optimism and Survival
Sydney Ward (aka Sunny War) isn’t your typical blues guitarist. Raised in a musical family between...
UK Punks Shame Open up About New LP, ‘Songs of Praise’
Shame: UK Punks Tackle Frenzied Stage Shows, Social Media & Hygiene on the Road UK’s Shame has been building a buzz based their frenzied, can’t miss live shows since their inception a few years...
Watch new Milk & Bone Video for “Nevermore”
Milk & Bone Open Up About the Transition from Solo to Duo Songwriting and Touring Simon and Garfunkel, Fripp and Eno, Sonny and Cher, The Black Keys, to name a few, are some of the great duos in...
Handsome Ghost On Using the Home Studio to Balance Vulnerability and Experimentation
Handsome Ghost is certainly a band to watch right now. After releasing singles dating back to 2015 (and garnering well-deserved acclaim while they were at it) and working on eclectic side projects,...
Cover Story: Django Django on the Making of ‘Marble Skies’
Django Django are back with their latest album, the first since Born Under Saturn in 2015. Marble Skies dropped last month, and we’re already calling it one of 2018’s best. Django Django, a...
LA LUZ SHARE MUSIC VIDEO FOR “CICADA”; NEW ALBUM FLOATING FEATURES OUT MAY 11th
Hardly Art is pleased to announce the return of L.A. shredders La Luz, whose new album Floating Features will arrive on LP, CD, digital, and cassette Friday, May 11th. Propulsive first single...
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[INTERVIEW] King Khan Distills the Power of Oakland on His First-Ever Solo Outing
Psyche-soul veteran King Khan returns to the scene with his first-ever solo record, backed by the Oakland band Gris Gris. An eclectic stew of aural delights, the new LP, Murder Burgers, comes out on...
Demo Taped On His Layered Recording Process and Learning How to Scale Back
Adam Alexander has a favorite pew at the Antioch Baptist Church North. It’s the one in the balcony that overlooks the choir stand. From up there, he can see it all: his dad leading the band...
Buffalo Killers on Musical Authenticity and Fraternity
We recently sat down with Buffalo Killers' Andrew Gabbard to talk about the band's new LP, self-producing and BK's creative process. (photos by Erin Gabbard) At a barn out in Howler Hills Farm,...
The Selecter’s Pauline Black on the Power of Activism Through Music
Lead vocalist and ska legend Pauline Black took a pause while touring in Germany to discuss the new Selecter album and the current global political climate, drawing parallels to the multicultural...
RECORDS THAT CHANGED MY LIFE With Francis Beringer from Caustic Casanova
RECORDS THAT CHANGED MY LIFE With Francis Beringer from Caustic Casanova I’m Francis Beringer, bassist/vocalist for Washington, DC heavy rock band Caustic Casanova. We’ve been busy lately. In the...