Artists
Aimee Mann songs have a literary quality to them—sharp, spare short stories set to music—so it was probably inevitable that she would one day make a concept album, the musical equivalent of a novella. The Forgotten Arm (SuperEgo), her fifth solo… (Read More)
Reset those clocks. It’s 2008 and much has happened in the past year. Hello there, I’m alexa. I was born in Cherry Hill, NJ though and lived there till I was 11. When I lived in NJ is when my love… (Read More)
“I’d like to get stoned,” sings Alice Peacock over a shambling electric guitar at the beginning of her fourth album, Love Remains. It’s a startling, if tongue-in-cheek, way to kick off a set of country-tinged pop-rock tunes recorded in the… (Read More)
Alpha Blondy, the Rasta of Cocody, was born Sedou Kone in Dimbokoro, Cote d’Ivoire, in 1953. Heavily influenced by the music of Bob Marley, Blondy considered himself a Rasta at an early age. So early, in fact, that he recorded six… (Read More)
In his own words AM describes “Soul Variations”: "’Soul Variations’ has more of a political edge. But like many of my songs I don’t think it has to be restricted to that. I try to write songs that can be applied… (Read More)
An Horse used to be about procrastination. An Horse was Kate Cooper’s way of not doing things that she was meant to be doing. Like studying or assignments. But Kate finished university. She got a couple of degrees, then started law… (Read More)
Angie Stevens delivers a time-warped trip through America’s backroads, a melange of rhythms and sounds that tap into populist (as opposed to “pop”) music past and present. For anyone who grew up listening to music in the 50s and 60s… (Read More)
Anita Baker gave birth to “fireside love songs” and such classic gems as, “Giving You The Best That I Got,” “Just Because,” and “Fairy Tales.” Her mantel is filled with Grammy, Soul Train, NAACP Image, Billboard and Rolling Stone Awards and… (Read More)
Big Head Todd and The Monsters
Big Head Todd and The Monsters’ ninth studio album Rocksteady – due July 20 on the group’s Big Records imprint, distributed by Warner Music Group’s Independent Label Group – finds the veteran Colorado band returning to their DIY roots and forging… (Read More)
Black Moth Super Rainbow come from deep within the woods of Western Pennsylvania. An actual, 5-member band not comprised of the expected laptops and sequencers, BMSR is a psyche-pop group in early ’70s electronic clothing. Sometimes the songs feel like pagan… (Read More)
Inducted into the prestigious Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006, Blondie emerged as the great pop icons of New York’s celebrated late ’70s new wave punk scene by defying easy categorization. They wrote great rock hooks and brilliant, ironic… (Read More)
Born in the Flood originated over a decade ago when Singer Nathaniel D. Rateliff and Bass Player Joseph Pope III began creating music on the south bank of the Missouri River floodplains in Hermann, Missouri. Rateliff and Pope were raised… (Read More)
You’ve heard some of these songs before, but you haven’t heard them like this. Intimate, understated, distinguished by the interplay of a handful of virtuoso musicians and the silken voice of one of the classic singers of our time, Fade Into… (Read More)
Guitarist Brandon Scott Sellner’s stinging licks may sound like he grew up in the nightclubs and after-hours juke joints of Austin, TX, but the fast-fingered performer originally hails from a small town of less than 5,000 called Sleepy Eye, MN. This… (Read More)
The trick to the irresistibly organic, pure pop sound is that the music, and even the lead singer, take a back seat to the real star: the songs. As the principal songwriter and singer for nationally acclaimed alt-rock trio The Push… (Read More)
Born the youngest of seven brothers and sisters and raised by three professional musicians in Topeka, Kansas, Clayton Senne knew from the first time he sat down at his father’s Kawai Grand piano at the young age of 5 that he… (Read More)
A great song, says Colbie Caillat, should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good. Taking her own sound advice, “Coco”, the debut album by the 22 year-old Californian singer-songwriter is simply crammed full of them. In an… (Read More)
Common Kings produce phenomenal pop hits with rock, reggae, R&B and classic soul influences. Lead singer JR King (Hawaii/Samoa), guitarist Taumata Grey (Samoa), bassist Ivan Kirimaua (Fiji/Kiribati), drummer Jerome Taito (Tonga) and keyboardist Erik Pryztulski (Korea/Poland) grew up in dynamic households… (Read More)
Ben Bergstrand started indie rock/pop band Cowboy Curse in 2003 as a way to keep little brother Josh (Jet Lucas, The Symptoms) off the streets and out of trouble. Longtime friend and musical collaborator Darin Strachan joined along with a fast-talking… (Read More)
De Novo Dahl has been busy earning a name for themselves over the past few years. The band released an ambitious double disc debut, Cats & Kittens in 2005. The album, Cats being filled with traditional pop tunes and Kittens basically… (Read More)
Rocked to sleep as a child to the music of Stevie Wonder, Dechen Hawk is a balladeer at heart. His music ranges from ambient rock to serious get up get down funk. A 2009 graduate of Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado… (Read More)
Asbury Park, NJ, deSoL is a brotherhood whose music mixes rock hooks with fiery Latin rhythms sung in English, Spanish & “Spanglish.” The result is a musical stew where the individual styles of the six musicians combine to create a sound… (Read More)
“Thirty years ago, people said that we were cynical, that we had a bad attitude,” says Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh. "But now, when you ask people if de-evolution is real, they understand that there was something to what we were saying. It’s… (Read More)
Dianne Reeves is the preeminent jazz vocalist of her generation. Music permeated her childhood, from her trumpet-playing mother to her cousin, the well-known pianist George Duke, to her uncle, Charles Burell, the bassist for the Denver Symphony Orchestra. Thanks to Uncle… (Read More)
Dressy Bessy is an indie rock band from Denver, Colorado, associated with the Elephant Six Collective. Guitarist John Hill also plays with The Apples in Stereo. Lead vocalist/guitarist Tammy Ealom formed the band with drummer Darren Albert and guitarist turned bassist… (Read More)
His iconic albino looks are unforgettable. His songs are used relentlessly in films and TV commercials, video games and played in music stores everywhere. Just one bar of “Frankenstein” will get fists pumping and heads bobbing. Likewise, “Free Ride” is a… (Read More)
Ferraby Lionheart, a Los Angeles transplant from Nashville,Tennesse, lives in a studio apartment in Korea Town. He owns a guitar and a piano. He idolizes Shel Silverstein and Judy Garland. Ferraby recorded his self-titled EP in the living room of his… (Read More)
Formed as a super group from classic rock legends in the mid 1970s, Foreigner went on to set records for chart-topping single after single through the ’80s, ’90s and beyond. Hits you all know, from “Feels Like The First Time” "Cold… (Read More)
GIVERS is a band made up of five friends from Lafayette, Louisiana—it should be stated firstly that the music they make is simply an ongoing reflection of this bond. It is this connection that fuels every aspect of creation and performance… (Read More)
