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In this riveting new interview between two Grammy-nominated artists, Blues Rock Titan Joe Bonamassa talks with newcomer Marcus King for his incredible new interview series Live From Nerdville. The two chat about everything from the first the last time they saw each other in person at the Holland International Blues Festival to King’s first Grammy nomination this year for Best Americana Album with his debut record ‘El Dorado.’
Dark Horse Records is celebrating the upcoming release of its newly remastered collection of solo cuts from Joe Strummer, the former frontman of The Clash, with today’s world premiere of “Junco Partner (Acoustic)”. The track is available for streaming now and comes with an accompanying animated mixed-media video created by Spencer Ramsey [WATCH HERE].
Sometimes a song idea lands softly or inconspicuously, and sometimes it strikes a writer like a bolt of lightning, or in Miles Gannett’s case a string of mid-travel tornadic storms. That’s how Gannett ended up in Meridian, Mississippi, one night on a trip back from visiting his hometown of Lafayette, Louisiana.
Robert Walter has announced his long out-of-print 1996 debut album 'Spirit of '70' will be reissued May 7 on limited edition 180-gram, purple smoke vinyl and digital formats via RPF Records. Pre-order begins today exclusively on Bandcamp.
With vaccines on the horizon and a few events being penciled in for later this year, Record Store Day organizers around the world look forward to the future, but recognize that in 2021, celebrating independent brick and mortar record stores is still best done in the Drops format introduced so successfully in 2020.
RSD Drops will take place at participating record stores, globally, on June 12 and July 17.
We Are Busy Bodies is very pleased to announce that “Running - Asibaleki / Sheroes Theme", the first single from the forthcoming BLK JKS LP Abantu / Before Humans (out 05.21) can now be heard everywhere via:
Los Angeles’ Grave Flowers Bongo Band’s sophomore LP “Strength of Spring” is an inverted pyramid balanced on the headstock of an acoustic guitar, a rainbow painted in campfire smoke, an endless staircase circling into the clouds. That acoustic guitar, perfectly captured here by Ty Segall’s excellently sere and close mic’d production, plays skeleton to these conjurors’ woolly grooves, and singer Gabe Flores’ thousand-yard moan keeps us guessing as to exactly where this wildebeest is headed.
Electronic music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre has composed and recorded a 52-minute musical score for ‘Amazônia,’ a new project by award-winning photographer and filmmaker Sebastião Salgado for the Philharmonic Paris. It follows Jarre’s recent triumphant virtual performance at Notre Dame for New Year’s Eve, which attracted over 75 million viewers worldwide.
Chart-topping singer-songwriter Lisa Jeanette, whose latest hit holiday song “Mrs. Claus” (featuring iconic Folk Artist Vance Gilbert) skyrocketed to #1 on the December 2020 Folk Alliance International (FAI) Folk DJ chart, has announced that her much-anticipated album Jellyfish on the Moon released March 1 on all DSPs.
