Melding lyrical nakedness with ambitious arrangements and pure imagination, Danny Ross builds a sound that’s completely his own – and yet awfully familiar. The Long Island-native has exactly that: a unique sound that channels his heroes. Over the past year, everything came together for the singer when he and his nine-piece band and horn section,
It’s been a long four years since Los Angeles-based, via the north suburbs of Philadelphia, rock outfit Eastern Conference Champions released its last full-length. That doesn’t mean they haven’t been busy. With the release of a couple of EPs (Santa Fe, Akustiks) and notable licensing opportunities, like the Twilight: Eclipse soundtrack, the band has been
Brooklyn may be the last place you would expect find a black metal band. But Liturgy bucks the trend. Taking their name from the dictionary definition of a form of public worship, the band’s music is an ecstatic affirmation of becoming and an assault on the floating malaise of contemporary information-age life. The ebb and
As almost everyone knows, The Motor City has been hard by the economic downturn. However, out of the rubble has emerged a new music scene that would have surprised hard rockers like Alice Cooper, Ted Nugent, Iggy Pop and Kid Rock. Never in a million years could these musicians have suspected that their hometown would
On the eve of the release of her sophomore LP on Vanguard Records, Daphne Willis has a lot going on. Whether it’s her nationwide tour or work with charity, the 22-year-old Nashville-based via Chicago singer maintains a positive perspective on her thusfar charmed life. Willis has taken an unconventional approach to her upcoming release Because
A compilation tribute album can be a blessing or a curse, the ultimate risk/reward. Often times, covers are a kiss of death because they are unimaginative, lack originality and are pretty much a snore, hardly straying from the original version. Fortunately on Reimagine Music’s Subterranean Homesick Blues: A Tribute To Bob Dylan’s Bringing It All
Stillwater, Oklahoma-based indie rock outfit Other Lives will be releasing their sophomore effort, Tamer Animals, on May 17 on tbd Records. Unlike their self-titled debut—a studio-bound effort that was produced by Beck’s longtime drummer, Joey Waronker—Tamer Animals was tracked in the privacy of the band’s own space in Stillwater. Waronker eventually mixed the entire affair
It’s been a rough ride for Ann Arbor-based alt-folk crooner Chris Bathgate. On his fourth record, Salt Year, which is a title that the singer uses to describe the time of personal tumult that transpired during the writing and recording of this album. However, the darkness of this album is a refreshing dose of raw
On their second album, North Carolina natives EAR PWR’s sophomore effort explores an expansive set of auditory contours and certain themes that are due to the growth in their songwriting. Devon Booze’s homemade synthesizers make their debut on the duo’s self-titled follow up to 2009’s Super Animal Brothers III. The album opens up with Booze-led
In a sign of things to come in 2011, Grouplove absolutely killed it on Friday night at The Troubadour, putting together easily one of the best local shows of the year. The show was completely sold out and there wasn’t a person in the house who wasn’t satisfied by the outfit’s 50-minute set. About five