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Jjuujjuu Share New Track 'Up to You' and New Tour Dates
by Josh Sharpe - April 18, 2024 Earlier this year, Los Angeles-based experimental collective jjuujjuu returned with their first single of the new year, “SOME” featuring Brazilian psych rock band, Boogarins. Now the group, led by Desert Daze co-founder Phil Pirrone, has shares new track “Up to You” ahead of their Weekend 2 performa...
Video: Watch Glen Hansard on CBS Saturday Morning; New Tour Dates With Pearl Jam
by Michael Major - March 18, 2024 Watch a video of Glen Hansard on CBS’s Jeff Glor in a wide-ranging interview that covered his new record. ‘All That Was East Is West Of Me Now’ came together after a secret residency in November 2022 at Hansard’s local pub just outside Dublin and was recorded with producer and former Frames member, ...
Abdallah Oumbadougou Drops 'Iwouksane' From 'Amghar: The Godfather Of Tuareg Music - VOL. 1'
by Michael Major - January 08, 2024 Petaluma Records released Abdallah Oumbadougou's “Iwouksane,” the second song to be pulled from Amghar: The Godfather of Tuareg Music - VOL. 1, a compilation from the late Abdallah Oumbadougou, the Saharan-born Tuareg guitarist and originating architect of the Desert Blues genre. The double vinyl LP...
Video: Glen Hansard Shares Video For New Track 'There's No Mountain'
by Michael Major - September 19, 2023 Irish musician Glen Hansard is sharing the new song “There’s No Mountain”. The song points forward, to the virtue of simply pressing on, despite cataclysms global and personal that might challenge any stable orbit. Watch the new music video now!...
JJUUJJUU Share First New Single in Four Years
by Michael Major - September 28, 2022 JJUUJJUU is a rotating ensemble of collaborators, wrangled by Los Angeles-based musician and Desert Daze co-founder Phil Pirrone. In advance of their return to Desert Daze this weekend, they are sharing their first new music in four years with “Daisy Chain.” Listen to “Daisy Chain” via the psychedel...
Pearl River Release New Single 'Heaven Help Me'
by Michael Major - July 18, 2022 The new single is a glittering entry-point to the ‘Look For The Light’ EP (out now on all streaming services); a record which sees the trio of Matt Sage (vox/guitar), Josh Rigal (Bass), and Joel Bassuk (drums) deliver 4 original songs of a finessed calibre far beyonds its debut credentials. Plus, ch...
Peal River Release New Single 'Look For The Light'
by Michael Major - June 21, 2022 “Look For The Light” is the radiant new single release by Pearl Diver. Written by lead singer and guitarist Matt Sage whilst on retreat in a hut overlooking the North Cornish sea; mesmerised by his shimmering surroundings and at one with the natural world, he found himself in a consummate state of b...
Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino Release 'Balla Nina,' First Video From New Album Meridiana
by Sarah Jae Leiber - June 30, 2021 The album's special guests include Neapolitan avant grade composer Enzo Avitabile on 'Tic e Tac', Brooklyn bhangra brass band Red Barat on 'Pizzica Bhangra', and electronic producer Giacomo Greco....
Tanzania Albinism Collective Release New Single
by Sarah Jae Leiber - June 10, 2021 Ian Brennan is a Grammy-winning music producer (Tinariwen, Malawi Mouse Boys, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, The Good Ones [Rwanda], Zomba Prison Project) and author. His seventh book, Muse-sick: a music manifesto in fifty-nine notes will be published in the fall of 2021....
Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino Announces Release Of 'Meridiana'
by Sarah Jae Leiber - May 12, 2021 Created in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Meridiana was co-produced by guitarist and producer Justin Adams (long time collaborator with Robert Plant, and producer of such iconic world music acts as Tinariwen and Rachid Taha). ...
Dom La Nena Releases New Single 'Quién Podrá Saberlo'
by Sarah Jae Leiber - February 25, 2021 For Dom La Nena,''Quién Podrá Saberlo' is a song about our past: what do we do with everything we experience? What do we do with the frustrations, disappointments, with our fears? How are relationships changed or reshaped? ...
Landmark Collection Of Powerful Field Recordings From Witch Camps In Ghana Released
by Sarah Jae Leiber - February 08, 2021 Six Degrees Records is proud to announce a landmark new album from Witch Camp (Ghana); I've Forgotten Now Who I Used to Be released via Six Degrees Records on 12 March 2021. ...
Dom La Nena Releases Music Video for 'Todo Tiene Su Fin'
by Sarah Jae Leiber - February 04, 2021 Dom La Nena releases a stunning music video for her song 'Todo Tiene Su Fin.' The song first debuted with Complex who said, 'La Nena puts her talents as a producer to full use, employing minimalist arrangements to maximum effect.' The new single is from the forthcoming album, Tempo due out February ...
Ian Brennan to Release Album Featuring the Sheltered Workshop Singers, WHO YOU CALLING SLOW?
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 11, 2020 GRAMMY Award-winning music producer and lauded field-recording trailblazer Ian Brennan (Tinariwen, Zomba Prison Project, Ramblin' Jack Elliott) follows up an acclaimed recording career of over 50 albums with his latest, and most personal release yet, featuring the Sheltered Workshop Singers' debut r...
Alex Henry Foster Shares Video for 'The Hunter (By the Seaside Window)'
by Kaitlin Milligan - April 01, 2020 Canadian artist, Alex Henry Foster has released his epic short film for The Hunter (By The Seaside Window), a 15 minute cathartic post-rock journey taken from his forthcoming album Windows In The Sky, released on May 1st by Hopeful Tragedy Records....
London's Cross The Tracks Festival Adds Madlib, London African Gospel Choir, & More!
by Kaitlin Milligan - January 28, 2020 Cross The Tracks Festival continues to build excitement for the mouthwatering 2020 edition as new names such as the iconic Madlib, Sudan Archives, Greentea Peng, Sadar Bahar, London African Gospel Choir, Coops, Laura Misch, Neue Grafik Ensemble, SEED Ensemble, Charlie Bones, Dreamcast and many more ...
Sister Sledge, Norman Jay MBE Join Lineup for Cross The Tracks 2020
by Kaitlin Milligan - November 27, 2019 After a much talked about debut in 2019, London's tasteful Cross The Tracks Festival is back and better than ever in 2020 with an all encompassing day of the finest jazz, funk and soul as well as delicious street food, carefully brewed craft beer, thought provoking talks, immersive workshops and ple...
Tinariwen's Ninth Album 'Amadjar' Out Today
by Abigail Charpentier - September 06, 2019 The Grammy award-winning Tuareg musicians Tinariwen are still a desert band, only certain aspects of which the western music industry can ever hope to capture and present. Tinariwen existed long before any of their albums were recorded and their existence is still quite distinct from their discograp...
Vampire Weekend To Live Stream Sold-out Madison Square Garden Concert
by Kaitlin Milligan - September 06, 2019 GRAMMY Award-winning, acclaimed band, Vampire Weekend today announced it's sold-out concert from Madison Square Garden will be live-streamed on Twitter via The Live Nation Concert Series TONIGHT, SEPTEMBER 6th 8:30pm ET from New York, NY. The concert will mark the band's first-ever performance at t...
Tinariwen Release New Single Featuring Cass McCombs
by Abigail Charpentier - August 22, 2019 Amadjar - the new album from the Grammy award-winning Tuareg musicians Tinariwen, coming out September 6 – was recorded in southern Morocco, accompanied by an old camper van that was converted into a makeshift studio. Every evening, the caravan stopped to set up camp and the members of Tinariwen got...
Tinariwen Announces New Album 'Amadjar'
by Kaitlin Milligan - June 11, 2019 The story of Amadjar – the new album from the Grammy award-winning Tuareg musicians Tinariwen - begins at the end of October 2018 at the Taragalte Festival of nomadic cultures in the Moroccan Sahara. Following their appearance at the festival, Tinariwen hit the road and head for Mauritania, via sout...
Third Man Records Releases Tanzania Albinism Collective's Debut 7' Single
by Tori Hartshorn - October 12, 2018 Today, Third Man Records is proud to release the Tanzania Albinism Collective's debut 7' single,'White African Power (We Live In Danger)' b/w 'Stigma, Everywhere.' The Tanzania Albinism Collective is comprised of former non-musicians who have never previously been allowed the freedom to sing due to ...
BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival Announces Lineup for 40th Season
by Macon Prickett - May 02, 2018 BRIC, the leading presenter of free cultural programming in Brooklyn, is pleased to announce the lineup and sponsors for its 40th season of the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival. With 31 performances (June 5 – August 11), BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! launches a yearlong celebration to cap off four decad...
The Room in the Wood Announce New MAGICAL THINKING EP Out Friday
by Tori Hartshorn - April 19, 2018 A Turntable Friend Records has announced the forthcoming 'Magical Thinking' EP from Liverpool-based The Room in the Wood. Comprised of Paul Cavanagh and Dave Jackson, the duo shall present their debut EP digitally on April 20, followed by an 11-track album, to be released later this spring on vinyl,...
The Room in the Wood Announce New MAGICAL THINKING
by Tori Hartshorn - April 05, 2018 A Turntable Friend Records has announced the forthcoming 'Magical Thinking' EP from Liverpool-based The Room in the Wood. Comprised of Paul Cavanagh and Dave Jackson, the duo shall present their debut EP digitally on April 20, followed by an 11-track album, to be released later this spring on vinyl,... |