The best part of running this whole website is getting involved with other people whom love music too. It’s been an incredible year of traveling, meeting awesome people and enjoying music with old and new friends alike. Music doesn’t exist in a vacuum and I, for one, learned a hell of a lot more about […]
Jazz master Dave Brubeck passed away earlier today in Connecticut. Dave, now 91, was an extremely talented and creative jazz musician now widely for his work. In short, I’m personally always amazed at Dave’s ability to create tunes that carried the improvisation, range and depth of jazz with pop sensibility that allowed for such quick accessibility to […]
Ladies & gents, as the 2012 “Albums of the Year” lists start trickling in, the Grammy Awards have announced their own lists. You know, kudos to the Grammy’s for creating a “playoff” for year end list winners. First, they get the nomination buzz. Then they create a whole weekend to determine the winner. Anyhow, full […]
Recently, Atoms for Peace announced their official debut album AMOK. The band features Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, Red Hot Chili Peppers Flea, Nigel Godrich and others. Thom shared more info about the album, more specifically the album cover (pictured above), release date, tracklist and personnel. AMOK will arrive on Feb 26 via XL. It’ll be a nine track album. You […]
Seattle’s The Cave Singers wonderfully bridge the wooded folk of the Pacific Northwest and hard-biting, gritty classic rock vibes. I previously compared them to a blend between the Fleet Foxes (whom they’ve toured with) and the Black Keys, a reductionist comparison, but still not a bad talking point. If you dig either of those bands, […]