2024

Hip Hop 

WATCH: Kurious Shares ‘1984’ Video

January 29, 2025January 29, 2025 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1984, 2024, 2025, A Constipated Monkey, Kurious, Majician, Metalface Records, MF Doom, Rhymesayers Entertainment

NYC rapper’s latest LP, Majician, out now on Metalface Records

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Pop 

Year of the Girlypops or Charli/Chappell ’24

December 12, 2024 Ryan Maffei 0 Comments 2024, Billie Eilish, Britney Spears, Chappell Roan, Charli XCX, Girlypops, Madonna, Sabrina Carpenter

A glance back at Brat Summer, from the winter of our discontent

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Indie Rock Rock 

WATCH: Lenny Zenith Shares Touching Video for ‘Partly Cloudy Dog’

December 12, 2024December 12, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2024, He/Hymn, Lenny Zenith, Partly Cloudy Dog, XYYX Records

New album, He/Hymn, out now

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Rock 

Ward Richmond Sings of ‘The Good Things’

November 25, 2024November 25, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2024, Dallas, Jason Burt, Spaciousness, Texas, Ward Richmond

Latest album, Spaciousness, out now

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Fusion Rock 

WATCH: Maiah Wynne Shares ‘Out of the Dark’

November 22, 2024 Ron Hart 1 Comment 2024, Alex Lifeson, Cat Power, Envy of None, Maiah Wynne, Out of the Dark, Rush

Solo debut of the same name from multi-talented Alex Lifeson associate out now

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Alternative Rock Rock 

The Collected Cracker

November 21, 2024November 21, 2024 Katherine Yeske Taylor 0 Comments 2024, Alternative History: A Cracker Retrospective, Camper Van Beethoven, Cooking Vinyl, Cracker, David Lowery, Eurotrash Girl, Johnny Hickman, Low, Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)

David Lowery talks about his longtime band’s career-spanning retrospective

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Indie Rock Rock 

LISTEN: Bobby Halvorson Returns with ‘Jump Start’

November 15, 2024November 15, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2024, Beck, Bobby Halvorson, I'm Already Gone, Jump Start, Sparklehorse, Tim Heidecker, Van Dyke Parks

New album, I’m Already Gone, out Dec. 1

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Alternative Rock Rock 

WATCH: Absolight Shares Video for “You Are Right”

November 14, 2024November 14, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2024, Absolight, Canada, Carl Ricard, Olivier Ricard, Quebec, You Are Right

Debut album from new Canadian band out in 2025

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Beatle Rock 

Looking for the Light: George Harrison’s Living in the Material World

November 13, 2024November 13, 2024 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments 1973, 2024, BMG, Dark Horse Records, Deluxe Edition, George Harrison, Living in the Material World, The Beatles

A deluxe edition shines a new hue on a Quiet Beatle classic

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New Wave Pop 

WATCH: MA Jolie Fleur Shares “Let’s Get Out Of Here”

November 12, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2024, Alexandria Leigh, Depeche Mode, Let's Get Out of Here, MA Jolie Fleur, Motown, Myke Adams

New EP, Detachments, out in December

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North Americana 

WATCH: Laura Zarougian Shares Video for “New Used Car”

November 5, 2024November 5, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2024, Chicago, Laura Zarougian, Lucinda Williams, New Used Car, Saugerties, Woodstock

Sophomore album due out in early 2025

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Alternative Rock Folk Rock 

Poi Dog Pondering: Aloha to Austin

October 30, 2024 Cary Baker 0 Comments 2024, Busking, Cary Baker, Down on the Corner: Adventures in Busking & Street Music, Frank Orrall, Hawaii, Honolulu, Jawbone Press, Poi Dog Pondering, Wakiki

Read an excerpt from Cary Baker’s new book on busking

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Hard Rock Indie Rock Psychedelics Rock 

SLIFT: Space Is The Place

October 25, 2024October 25, 2024 Brad Cohan 0 Comments 2024, Dry Cleaning, France, Gang of Four, Ilion, Jesus Lizard, Love Battery, SLIFT, Sub Pop Records, Sun Ra

On Ilion, the French psych-rock shredders kick out the cosmic jams

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Dub/Reggae Funk Instrumental jazz Soul 

Apifera Have Arrived

October 24, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2024, Apifera, Frankie Reyes, Keep The Outside Open, Public Records, Stones Throw Records

Catching up with the Stones Throw supergroup

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North Americana 

WATCH: Roger Street Friedman Shares Poignant Video for “I Think We Know”

October 22, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2024, Americana, Long Island, Long Shadows, New York, Roger Street Friedman

New album from revered Long Island songwriter, Long Shadows, out Jan. 2025

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