SNAIL MAIL GIVES NEW ALBUM ‘RICOCHET’ A SPIN AT BROOKLYN PARAMOUNT
Photos by Bobby Nicholas Generation Z’s fetishization of ’90s culture, from oversized clothing to embracing the show “Friends,” is hard to navigate for those who lived through it. Is it an homage? ...
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JOE BONAMASSA ON BB KING TRIBUTE, RUNNING HIS OWN MUSIC BUSINESS and TURNING 50
Joe Bonamassa is not one to wait around for something to happen. For nearly 25 years, he, not a sprawling record label, booking agency or multinational promoter, has been calling the shots in a career...
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ELIZABETH & THE CATAPULT ADDRESSES LIFE’S CONTRADICTIONS ON NEW ALBUM
Elizabeth Ziman says she always wants to lift people with her music. But sometimes that means addressing some heavy subjects, like death, disease and injustice, as she does on her latest album as Eliz...
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CHRISTOPHER ARDRA CREATES ‘WORLD TO GET LOST IN’ ON SECOND ALBUM
Some musicians create albums that are not just a series of songs, but a sonic universe for listeners to immerse themselves in. That's what Christopher Ardra built on "Saw It In A Dream," his second al...
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JOANNE OPENS ITS DOORS TO UNDISCOVERED ARTISTS
An Italian restaurant on the Upper West Side is an unlikely place to find a future pop superstar, but alongside eggplant meatballs and chicken scarpariello, Joanne Trattoria is offering a space for un...
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FOR TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND, THE FUTURE IS NOW
Six albums into their career, the Tedeschi Trucks Band is really good at being the Tedeschi Trucks Band. That might sound like a throwaway statement, but when being the Tedeschi Trucks Band requires b...
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BRAISON CYRUS: ‘I’M EXACTLY WHERE I WANT TO BE’
Braison Cyrus intended someone to sing his new songs, but he didn't expect it would be him. Writing a song for his sister Noah and others for the country superstar Orville Peck, the 31-year-old eventu...
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PARISIAN JAZZ SINGER GABI HARTMANN’S ‘LONG JOURNEY’ COMES TO NORTH AMERICA
On Gabi Hartmann's second album, "La femme aux yeux de sel (Le long voyage)" -- in English, "The Girl with Salt Eyes (The Long Journey)" -- the Parisian jazz vocalist tells the story of a woman named ...
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THE NUDE PARTY MASTER COUNTRY ROCK AND GLAM INFLUENCES ON FOURTH LP
At the end of The Nude Party's fourth album, our hero finds himself doing a two-year stint in prison after getting busted at the border with a trunk full of Acapulco Gold. But in "Jaurez," the Tex-Mex...
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SEAROWS SAILS THE OCEANS TO FIND HIMSELF
“Death in the Business of Whaling,” the second album from Searows, is a work of emotional, lyrical and musical depth that deploys seafaring imagery to trawl for broader truths. Portland, Oregon’s A...
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