ALBUM REVIEW – RODRIGO Y GABRIELA: OUR HOME

For Rodrigo y Gabriela, home is not necessarily a physical place, more a sense of having purpose and inner peace instead of seeking external approval. The seventh album from the Grammy award winning (for 2019’s ‘Mettavolution’) Mexico City-bred instrumental duo of Rodrigo Sánchez and Gabriela Quintero radiates that quality. However, place is also a key […]
As defined by Jim James, being Wowed Out is a contemporary malaise, a state of overstimulation, constantly searching for the latest sensation. It underpins the first solo album in eight years from the My Morning Jacket frontman which seeks a refuge from the spiritual alienation of an existence mediated through screens. In standing firm against […]

ALBUM REVIEW – JIM JAMES: WOWED OUT

ALBUM REVIEW – MARGARET GLASPY: I AM BOTH

“In any industry, success is measured by climbing as high as you possibly can, but these days I think of music as something more like a public service. You show up in city after city and you bring the music with you, and hopefully it reaches whoever needs to hear it.” Discussing her latest album, […]
Directed and filmed entirely on an iPhone by Asher Moss, the video is the second instalment in a trilogy (which kicked off with the Casanova video in October) that sees Rayland on the run from the law. The track is taken from his new album Wide Awake which is produced by Butch Walker (Weezer, Pink, […]

RAYLAND BAXTER SHARES ‘HEY LAROCCO’ VIDEO

ALBUM: JIM JAMES – UNIFORM CLARITY

Songs can have many versions, throughout history people have always covered another person’s tunes, from the Victorian music halls to the bands of today, and sometimes it’s the cover version which ends up being just as appreciated as the original. From Jeff Buckley’s vs. Leonard Cohen’s versions of ‘Hallelujah’ to Jimi Hendrix’s vs Bob Dylan’s […]
‘Lifted Away’ – the new video from Joseph – is from the band’s new ‘Stay Awake EP’ (ATO Records). The video is essentially a journal entry, documenting the two-day period in August 2017 that Joseph spent recording their ‘Stay Awake EP’ with long-time collaborator Andrew Stonestreet. Natalie Schepman, who founded Joseph with her two sisters, Allison Closner and Meegan Closner, directed […]

JOSEPH SHARE THEIR SELF-DIRECTED ‘LIFTED AWAY’ VIDEO TAKEN FROM THEIR NEWLY RELEASED ‘STAY AWAKE EP’

ALBUM REVIEW: FLY GOLDEN EAGLE – QUARTZ BIJOU

ATO Records’ press release states that this album is “Nashville Psych-Rock for fans of Pond, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, T Rex, The Doors”. I would argue that they’re not really too much like any of those bands at all, but still, they’re right, if you like those bands you’ll probably like Fly Golden Eagle. They’re brash, bold, and […]
“I wanted the album to sound like it came from a different place in time,” says Jim James. “Perhaps sounding as if it were the past of the future, if that makes any sense—like a hazy dream that a fully-realized android or humanoid capable of thought might have when it reminisces about the good old […]

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