The brainchild of NYC-based singer/songwriter Emilia Cataldo, Nehedar combines powerful anti-folk with an amalgam of trendy sounds reminiscent of St. Vincent, Regina Spektor and Patti Smith. Cataldo’s songs are traditionally…
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The Newport Jazz Festival celebrated 60 years in grand style
Divided into seasons, the Morning Birds’ Bloom EP innately represents the cyclical nature of not only the year, but also life itself. Dubbed a “collaborative concept album,” the band recruited a…
In most cases, I would say this was pretty good on the bullshit-factor scale. BUT this is real, folks. A fundraising campaign on GoFundMe has begun to purchase Michael Jackson,…
Cold Revival is the title of the upcoming new solo album from Matt Turk, a singer-songwriter from Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. The irony of the album title is this album is…
You said something bad? You better shut your mouth, or I’ll bust your jaw off…
This time out, the staff sorta slips down the Grohl hole and Don Henley may be a p****.
How – HOW can one NOT get excited about an album that was: a) produced by Steve Almaas – of The Suicide Commandos, Beat Rodeo, solo artist and one-time Bongo/sometime…
I initially talked about Charleston, South Carolina-based A Fragile Tomorrow over a year ago, when I first heard and reviewed their (at the time) newest album, the splendid Be…
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Everything old is new again. Jay Brown is an artist living a kind of dual existence. On one hand, he’s a seasoned singer/songwriter, having cut his chops in bands like…
It’s the Friday Five! Shuffle through five random tracks from your library and share it with the Popdose community.
Maybe it’s because it’s when I first discovered Dylan, but I’ve always had a soft spot for his much-maligned ’80s output. I was still an impressionable college sophomore when a…
Exhilarating. Emotional. Exhausting. The 2014 Newport Folk Festival.
Ridgefield Park, New Jersey native (and current Nashville resident) Bobby Messano steps up to the front of the line with his newest release on Marty Scott’s JEM Recordings, Welcome To…
Charli XCX is taking forever and a day to release her second LP. Lady Gaga is moving on from her Artflop with a promising jazz duets album with Tony Bennett….
Howdy, pilgrim. Today we’re fixing to bust out a words-and-music tone poem inspired by Charles Portis’ 1968 Western novel True Grit. A true modern classic, True Grit — set in…
Dr. John got the world on its feet with his 1973 classic
Before Louisville was associated with Palace, though after, I suppose, Hunter S. Thompson chronicled its seedy decadence during the Derby, there was Squirrel Bait, a nascent punk group of area…
This seems to be my week – another band with that roots-rock/American sound that I love. Lines West are a fairly new collective, hailing from Bridgeport, Connecticut – and this…
Richard Patrick, and I have so much in common. We’re both from Cleveland. I was friends with Chris Vrenna, the original drummer for Nine Inch Nails. Patrick was in Nine…
Portland, Oregon native son Adam Zwig unleashes a new 5-song mini album – his 6th overall release – the magnificent Stones, Bones, and Skin. This e.p., I’m not ashamed to…
“The Vinyl Diaries” and Popdose GIVEAWAY: Allman Brothers’s new box set!
Australian-born, Los Angeles-residing Mia Dyson is a new name for me; a singer-songwriter who upon, first listen, sings like Bonnie Raitt and/or Stevie Nicks being backed by Elvis Costello’s…
It’s the Friday Five! Shuffle through five random tracks from your library and share it with the Popdose community.
The words “garage punk” get tossed around a lot and usually miss their mark. However, The Cynz, who hail from New Jersey are just that – a band that, upon…
I Meant It To Be Sweet is the sophomore release from Tommy Wallach, a Brooklyn-based published author-turned-singer-songwriter. His first completed novel to be published, We All Looked Up, will be…
The Staple Singers let go of the past on this 1975 classic
