CUDDLE MAGIC UNDERWATER EGGHUNT RECORDS Is there such a thing as ambient folk or folky dream pop, or both? Of course, there is a resounding yes there, as bands and artists like Big Thief have amply shown, and now you can add Cuddle Magic to that [...]
WILDER MAKER THE STREETS LIKE BEDS STILL WARM WESTERN VINYL Brooklyn’s Gabriel Birnbaum seems to be all over the place these days, either as a music curator/PR man, solo artist, or as a member/principal songwriter of dark, jazzed-up folk [...]
MYSTERY ROMANCE ELECTRIC LOVE CURRENT RECORDS Mystery Romance released their debut album, Human Sexuality, in 1989 and did extremely well with that album. Since then, the band has split and reformed, with the core of the band being the duo Mike [...]
LOS STRAITJACKETS SOMOS LOS STRAITJACKETS YEP ROC RECORDS Those lucha libre mask-wearing surf rockers, Los Straitjackets, are back with another album of groovy instrumental fun. Lately known as the backing band for Yep Rock labelmate Nick Lowe, [...]
BIG OL’ NASTY GETDOWN VOLUME 3 INDEPENDENT Over the last two decades, The Big Ol’ Nasty Getdown, which has included the efforts of well over 225 musicians, has become perhaps the largest and most fluid musical collective, consisting of a [...]
HEADSTONES BURN ALL THE SHIPS DINE ALONE RECORDS Returning with their 11th studio album, following 2022’s Flight Risk, Canadian rock icons Headstones are making waves with their Dine Alone Records debut. Burn All The Ships sees the band firing [...]
PINK FUZZ RESOLUTION INDEPENDENT For their fourth album, Denver, CO’s Pink Fuzz have returned with Resolution. Produced by Kevin McKeown (Black Pistol Fire) and mixed by Alain Johannes (Queens Of The Stone Age, Chris Cornell, Arctic Monkeys), [...]
PHIL MANZANERA & ANDY MACKAY AM.PM SOHO LIVE EXPRESSION/BFD/THE ORCHARD When Phil Manzanera and Andy MacKay came together in 2023 and put together the brilliant AM.PM album, no one thought that they would perform live in this configuration, [...]
