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Over the last few years, hardcore has transformed from an underground subculture into a mainstream phenomenon. Scowl is one of the unwitting torchbearers for this paradigm shift, but their success hasn't come without tension.Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
The musician and comedian weaves post-apocalyptic tales involving fatherhood and baseball on his latest studio album.Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
Alt.Latino hosts Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre play the new music that caught their ears this week, plus Felix delivers a deep dive into the roots of psicodélico. Featured artists and songs: • Eslabón Armado, "Esa noche" • Adrian...Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
Alt.Latino hosts Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre play the new music that caught their ears this week, plus Felix delivers a deep dive into the roots of psicodélico. Featured artists and songs: • Eslabón Armado, "Esa noche" • Adrian...Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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This is album number five from bassist Quinn Sternberg . It follows on from Walking On Eggshells (Mind Beach Records, 2023). A resident of jny: Asheville , North Carolina, as of this writing, Sternberg returned to jny: New Orleans for...Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Jake Hertzog 's ambitious Ozark Concerto showcases his lithe electric guitar in a well-intended but only moderately successful seven-movement opus, accompanied for the most part by the 23-member Arkansas-based Ozark Jazz Philharmonic...Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Sometimes, a random listener intervenes to comment on music a reviewer is working on. "Who are those guys?" with a tone that means, "I should know this right?" Well, if you happen to be from Philadelphia, shame on you. This was some kind...Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Simply stated, and without hyperbole, Terry Waldo is an American musical treasure. He's also a treasure purveyor. A protégé of and mentored by Eubie Blake , Waldo is a player, composer, arranger, author, podcaster, theatrical director,...Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
The intimacy of a given musical setting does not necessarily translate to accessibility. And duo performances can be among the most thought-provoking of any instrumental combination, revealing not only the fundamental difficulty of not...Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from All About Jazz News
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In 1951 in Vienna, a graduate school psychology student and amateur harpist doing work on Freud literally stumbled upon a handful of torn-edged music manuscript papers of the legendary psychiatrist. Recognizing what could be a major...Tuesday, April 1, 2025 from All About Jazz News
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
When Diana Ross , the glittering soul siren of Motown, and Frank Zappa , the madcap maestro of musical anarchy, unveiled Soul Freak Symphony in March 1985 but was put in limbo due to contractual issues... [ read more ]Tuesday, April 1, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Imagine a Detroit dive bar in 1969, where the feral howl of The Stooges collides with the towering tenor of Dexter Gordon in a haze of sweat, distortion, and cigarette smoke. Raw Blow Power, released on the FuzzTone rock label, is that...Tuesday, April 1, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
British saxophonist Ronnie Ross had just locked down his now iconic baritone solo on Lou Reed 's soon-to-be overplayed rock classic, "Walk On the Wild Side" when co-producer David Bowie snook up behind Reed and whispered excitedly...Tuesday, April 1, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
Playboi Carti's supersized blockbuster MUSIC holds at No. 1 in its second week of release. Elsewhere, Kendrick Lamar's "Luther (feat. SZA)" holds at No. 1and Morgan Wallen charts a fifth top 10 hit from an album that isn't even out yet.Tuesday, April 1, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
In a career that lasted an odds-defying four decades, trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker's signature sound was captured on around 20 live albums. The majority of these performances, covering the years 1952-1988, not surprisingly, fell on...Tuesday, April 1, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
Wet Leg is back with another burst of wildly infectious, frenetic rock. We've got that, the original version of an Oscar-worthy Sufjan Stevens song, and some music that NPR's Tom Huizenga says is "better than Xanax." Featured artists and...Tuesday, April 1, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
Dacus mixes confession and intimacy on Forever is a Feeling . The EVEN MORE Freewheelin' Jeffrey Lewis nods to Dylan's early New York City folkie days, with a great song about the pain of existence.Tuesday, April 1, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
The head of XL Recordings talks about his third studio album as Everything Is Recorded.Tuesday, April 1, 2025 from All About Jazz News
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Easy Mo Bee is a fellow who does not like to leave things unfinished. Like any good producer, he is restlessly willing to shape and hone a work until things are fine-tuned down to the smallest details--a fine quality in rap recording,...Tuesday, April 1, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
If you're tired of the same-old same-old musical merry-go-round, here's a group that really shakes things up and RIPs them apart on its debut recording, MUSKrats, firing brutally and haphazardly at every melodic convention and literally...Tuesday, April 1, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Pianist Dave McKenna 's strong left hand was equally at home playing stride, swing, bop or modal, no matter if the tune was an old warhorse from the early days of jazz, a Broadway standard, a timeless jazz work or even the occasional pop...Monday, March 31, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Brûlez les Meubles (burn the furniture), a Québec-based avant-jazz duo, consists of guitarist Louis Beaudoin-de la Sablonnière from Montreal and electric bassist Éric Normand from Rimouski... [ read more ]Monday, March 31, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
It is always refreshing to hear a talented vibraphonist seducing the mallets while leading a band, as is true on Breathe, Chris Varga 's second recording, and the first in the U.S., following 2023's Vichara on South Korea's Mung Music...Monday, March 31, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
Monday, March 31, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
The original recording of On Hollywood Boulevard took place in 2016. The inspiration comes from drummer Billie Davies personal experience of living at the historic Hillview Apartments on Hollywood Boulevard in 2009. Hillview Apartments,...Monday, March 31, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Australian pianist Alister Spence is a master collaborator. He teams up with fellow keyboardist Satoko Fujii for various recording and live show efforts, and also with pianist Myra Melford and saxophonist Raymond McDonald... [ read more ]Sunday, March 30, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
Sunday, March 30, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
On Memphis Blue, acclaimed bassist Rodney Jordan bows deeply to his Tennessee hometown via a series of charming and largely blues-tailored themes that are designed to trace the city's unique character and heritage. Jordan wrote four of...Sunday, March 30, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
