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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GOVERNORS BALL 2026 LINEUP DROP: LORDE, A$AP ROCKY, JENNNIE, GEESE, WET LEG & MORE
Governors Ball, which will return to Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens on June 5-7, announced its lineup on Tuesday morning, with Lorde, Baby Keem, Stray Kids, Kali Uchis, A$AP Rocky and Jennie l...
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MICHAEL LELLO’S FAVORITE ALBUMS OF THE YEAR
1. Wolf Alice - "The Clearing" 2. Ethel Cain - "Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You" 3. Blondshell - "If You Asked for a Picture" 4. Geese - "Getting Killed" 5. Arcade Fire - "Pink Elephant" ...
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MICHAEL LELLO’S FAVORITE CONCERTS OF THE YEAR
1. Def Leppard, Borgata Event Center, Atlantic City, NJ, June 28 2. Dead and Company, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Aug. 1-3 3. Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers, Bearsville Theater, Woodstock, N...
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SWEET, CARRYING ON GLAM ROCK LEGACY, TO ‘BLITZ’ PENN’S PEAK
With sugary melodies, insistent rhythms and a flashy look, British band Sweet was one of the major players in the glam rock movement of the early '70s. Hits like "Ballroom Blitz," "Fox on the Run" and...
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FOR DAVID BOWIE COLLABORATOR GAIL ANN DORSEY, IT TAKES ALL KINDS TO MAKE NEW MUSIC
Growing up in the '60s and '70s, Gail Ann Dorsey had plans that, to her mom, "were very different than anything she could imagine," as Dorsey puts it now. "But she was a very tolerant mom and very coo...
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AL SMITH PUTS COLLABORATORS IN THE SPOTLIGHT WITH DEBUT EP
Al Smith has made his mark in the music world by supporting other artists' vision, providing drums and keyboards for artists like Hiss Golden Messenger, Madeline Hawthorne and Tom Hamilton. On the fir...
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THE ANTLERS MOURN A DYING PLANET ON ‘BLIGHT’
More than 15 years since The Antlers followed the journey of a hospital worker and a dying patient on "Hospice," Peter Silberman has mined an equally grim vein for the band's seventh record, "Blight":...
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