After releasing four conceptual Eps in 2014 (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key Black) singer-songwriter Luca Bash unites the best of them in sort of a compilation EP. The Single Drops features a track from each of the EPs and a…
Sepultura played the Marlin Room at Webster hall on Saturday night. Far from the largest room within the venue, It’s smaller size lent an air of intimacy that was entirely appropriate considering the band in question was Sepultura and the…
London-based 4 piece band Staring Out The Sun creates high powered and somehow anthemic music, although fun and easy to listen. Hard hitting drums and huge guitars are mixed with sonorous vocals in SOTS’ debut EP “Break The Silence” produced…
It starts off not unlike many post-punk standards of the day – drums first. The snare pops and the kick-drum fills the bottom end, with the sibilant high-hat coming in later with the bass. But for a whole measure the…
What clever rubric explains my selection of songs for the year 2014? There is none. I’m usually satisfied with a tried and true playlist, even if many of the songs are a few years old. That said, our interconnectedness through…
Frankly, it can’t be all happy and sunny all the time, right? Now – back to darkness! I’m always very excited to write about metal and especially the extreme genres of it – probably part of it is the fact…
Wow! What an amazing show! – would be my words if I have to summarize Blonde Redhead’s coming-back-to-NYC performance promoting their new album “Barragan”. A little over 20 years after Japanese art students Kazu Makino and Maki Takahashi randomly met…
Getting its name from the now retired basketball player Luscious Jackson, the 90s alternative/funk/hip-hop band is far away from retirement and it proved that with an energetic and highly interactive show at Gowanus’ venue The Bell House this Sunday. First…
We usually don’t review country/americana on this blog… but why the hell not, right? Billy Roberts and the Rough Riders are not your usual country dudes anyway. Hailing from Australia, instead of somewhere “down south” in the US, Billy got…
Set on a gritty rooftop overlooking the Manhattan skyline the debut single of NYC singer/songwriter Paul Maget’s new album “Diamonds and Demons” makes a statement on elitism and greed on modern society. Influenced by the current indie scene and bands…
