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The last time Detroit rapper Danny Brown released an album (2016’s Atrocity Exhibition), the rap’s funniest star chronicled his downward spiral with drug and alcohol addiction. Three years later, Brown gets a chance to show listeners his growth with uknowhatimsayin¿. The album, full of eclectic beats from executive producer Q-Tip, …

The Vow’s latest single “Julia” is another choice release from the Liverpool based band and is a probable early preview of their soon to be released new EP. Vocalist and songwriter Graham Trust, lead guitarist Martyn Gilbert, and drummer Tony Potter form the core of a band that first formed in the late 1980’s and made an …

Most every great blues album unpacks a lot of emotions inside of its tracklist, and in this way, Alex Lopez’s Yours Truly, Me… is no different than most of its historical brethren. Where Lopez sets himself apart in this record isn’t in his approach, but in his means of expression – in …

Ian Bouras’ live DVD collection A Chipmunk’s Interpretation of Space is built around his long-established technique of “looping” guitar sounds – recording an initial passage, replaying it, then overdubbing new passages to co-exist with the first. It may sound somewhat simplistic to the layman, but this style takes more than a …

Fitzsimon and Brogan are a pop-rock duo based in London. After two successful albums, featuring celebrity guest musicians such as Dave Bronze, Tobias Boshell, and The Art Of Noise, they are back with a new release, a fifteen-tracks LP called The Girl Who Shouted Love at the Heart of the …

Through the misty fog that precludes its first few notes, a gently-picked acoustic guitar clears a path for the throaty lead vocal of the one and only C-wired in Cwiredband’s new single “Baby Prime Became Baby Blue,” and as the next four minutes of play come to pass, we’ll see …

Jesh Yancey is piling the bluesy grit, countrified swing and rock n’ roll tenacity on pretty thick in his record Maybe It’s The Drugs, but one thing he’s stopping short of in this all-new, five-track slab of Americana is overindulgence. In songs like “Ridin’ High” and “When in Rome,” Yancey exhibits …

A confident beat melts into a mild organ melody in the opening bars of Greg Roensch’s “Don’t Forget to Pack Your Hand Grenade,” one of the four songs on his new self-titled EP (all of which, I should add, can be found on What’s in the Meaning of That Cloud in …

If there’s one artist that alternative hip-hop and R&B fans need to be following right now, it is James Cole. Cole’s anti-commercial hybrid of harmony-based rapping and swaggering R&B grooving doesn’t come as the result of any pandering to the masses, nor does it sound as though it’s a product …

In their new single and music video, titled “Chasing Whatever,” Trouble in the Streets expand upon the hybrid blueprint of rock and hip-hop first introduced to us in their rookie release whilst incorporating external elements into their ever-evolving sound. From a compositional point of view, “Chasing Whatever” is a song …

The acoustic blues of Terry Robb’s “How a Free Man Feels” from his latest album release Confessin’ My Dues doesn’t sound dated as all to my ears. Music like this has a level of timelessness untouchable by fads or fashions because, at its heart, “How a Free Man Feels” is an audio …

Sayed Sabrina’s “Goodie Two Shoes,” the first single from the full-length album Thou Art That, is a blues track, but Sabrina herself is not a blues singer per say but rather a singer that knows how to sing the blues. There’s a lot more than meets the eye here when …