By Deuce The name of the group you need to know is Driftwood Pines. The release? That would be Crimson, the Extended Player that touched down on the first of the month. The man of the hour, the day, or any moment in which you choose to throw these recordings on? None other than IJ Smith. Although Smith pairs with

By Deuce There’s something very akin to hypnosis going on on “Paperclips”, the most recently released single emanating from Paul Feder. Part of it is firmly lodged in the interminable refrain, the two word titular phrase that sounds like a single word because it’s repeated so much, sometimes for each bar, via what sounds like the snatch of a vocal

By Deuce The sense of space pervading about the track on “Tears of a Melody”, the latest single from microphone musician Ace Poetik, is palpable. It’s designed for drifting off, enveloping oneself in one’s thoughts, emotions, remembrances, close encounters, and the like. That’s predominantly what Ace does, taking his time through a string of 16s to flash back to some

By Deuce “There are three types of people in the world today. Those that don’t know what happened, those that wonder what happened, and people like us, from the streets, that make things happen.” –Bushwick Bill on “Stranded on Death Row”, Dr. Dre, The Chronic, 1992. Bill Greenberg—electric, acoustic, rhythm, and lead guitarist; singer, songwriter, and harmonica player—has been making

There just aren’t very many—if any—albums quite like Reaching In, a fascinating magnum opus by The James McGowan Ensemble

The breadth of work, styles, voices, and genres, even, displayed on SINES’ Long Player, Gravity is, at times, a wonder to behold. Throw in the collection of cuts on random. Whatever tune you happen to land on will seemingly give you a different type of album—especially if this is your maiden voyage running through it.

Seven men are depicted in the album materials for In The Rain Shadow, the latest collection of music from MVI. Each has an instrument.

Singer, songwriter, musician, and producer Caro Granner has returned with her first single since dropping her debut EP, Cicada, last April.

Pray to the Knife, Black Bouquet’s forthcoming album that drops two days after Valentine’s day, is an unusual study in opposition.

If you’ve ever heard, let alone developed a profound fondness for, The Vogues “Turn Around Look At Me”, then stop whatever you’re doing, and see just when and how you can get a hold of Phil Gammage’s latest LP, Redeemed.

There’s some highly credible work to be found on Rise Again, the latest album from Smokeboss Militia.

Astounding. Amazing. Breath-sucking. These are just some of the superlatives that fail to do any true justice to the most recent album from Wabi Sabi, The Love Insane.

Somehow, someway, this trio (consisting of Kurt Ashmore, Mick Knudsen, and Vince Carmellini) bring in the funk horns on the leadoff track, “Ain’t Got a Clue”, a vivacious affair in which almost everyone hits it out the park.

Quickly hit up “Still Waiting”, the first number on Pretty Crimes’ Every Moment All At Once album.

Frank Clare’s latest work, Admiratio Magna, is a curious study of a man and his music. Perhaps a man and his piano is a better description, since that instrument is the only sound to populate this seven-song pastiche of moods, tempos, and melodies.