Lara Hope and the Ark-Tones: Love You to Life
Winner of the 2017 Ameripolitan Music Award for Best Rockabilly Female stakes her claim with her band on accomplished new set.
Morgan Evans
Morgan Ywain Evans is a Hudson Valley, NY based singer and music journalist/author with a main focus on pro peace movement, PMA, mental health/addiction issues, human rights and politics as well as gender issues. They sing under the name Walking Bombs. Growing up in early 90's Woodstock, NY they played a major role in booking DIY shows, promoting bands and bringing together people to create culture exchange. While it was louder than the 60's legacy of the area that Evans grew up in, their work singing with many bands in the Hudson Valley region for over 20 years has been more defined by grunge, post-hardcore or more extreme sounds, but also other sides like acoustic and electronic songs from time to time as well.
VISIONIST – “No Idols” (Singles Going Steady)
"No Idols" is both a compelling celebration of the human form, identity and desire and the intensity of nature's uncaring demand for survival.
Living Colour: Shade
Funky hard rock veterans still own the block and knock socks off.
Melvins: A Walk With Love and Death
This double album from the legendary troublemakers tests and teases, but it also rewards
Royal Trux: Platinum Tips + Ice Cream
Royal Trux, one of the most important American bands of all time, resurfaces with an anarchic yet smooth live set to remind disciples how it is done.
White Hills: Stop Mute Defeat
White Hills can't and won't stop smashing the state in smashing fashion.
Unearthly Trance: Stalking the Ghost
One of the best and heaviest bands to come out of NYC in the past several decades returns with a vengeance to stake their claim.
Crystal Fairy: Crystal Fairy
A thrilling and very strong yet semi-straightforward rock album from a collection of very cool weirdos.
Wandering Still: An Interview With the Album Leaf
It's been six long years since Jimmy LaValle's last full-length as the Album Leaf, but as Between Waves proves, the wait was worth it.
Myrkur: Mausoleum
Myrkur living in a mausoleum with the Norwegian Girls Choir is the new black.
Principled Pleasure: Janet Jackson’s ‘Control’ at 30 Still Commands Respect
Janet Jackson’s masterpiece of self-worth-themed contextual pop proves our idiocy for downgrade shaming her to the status of “wardrobe malfunction”.
Portraiture in a Human Form: An Interview with Aesop Rock
Aesop Rock: "I think I'm always surprised at how much the musicians I meet put weight on things that aren't music."