Review: Jefferson Airplane - Live at the Fillmore and Matrix (Collectors' Choice, 2010)
Collectors’ Choice rounds up tapes from five separate Jefferson Airplane live dates. They’re available together in a 6-CD four-pack, or as four separate single- or double-disc sets. The first two concerts document the departure of the band’s original female singer, Signe Anderson, and the arrival
FORMER EASTMOUNTAINSOUTH SINGER-SONGWRITER KAT MASLICH-BODE REALIZES SOLO DEBUT WITH 'THE ROAD OF 6'
NASHVILLE, TENN - It's been a Road of 6 for Kat Maslich-Bode, as in six years, the time it's taken to complete her solo debut since parting in 2004 with Peter Bradley Adams, as the duo eastmountainsouth. The album, due January 18 via Mishara Music, is
Levon Helm - Electric Dirt (2009)
by Nick DeRiso
Nothing drove old Levon Helm down.
Not the messy dissolution of his group, The Band; the perhaps inevitable subsequent financial ruin; a terrifying bout with throat cancer; a pair of shatteringly tragic deaths within his inner circle; or a yawning quarter century span between solo records that
'Baba Mo Tunde' - King Sunny Ade's musical salvation
King Sunny Ade – Baba Mo Tunde
Review by Doug Heselgrave
The artist once called ‘the Bob Marley of Africa’ shakes off his past, records a comeback and turns in one of the greatest ‘world music’ albums of the decade
The music world owes an inestimable debt to artists like Nigeria’
Songs to Sooth the Heart and Raise the Spirit: Azure Ray return with "Drawing Down the Moon"
Reprinted with permission from The Varsity
The girls are back: after a six year hiatus, Saddle-Creek Records’ beloved alternative rock duo, Azure Ray, return to the scene. With their fourth album, Drawing Down the Moon, Maria Taylor and Orenda Fink have just as much heartache and raw emotion to
Review: "West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology"
Very few artists have recorded as much worthwhile material in as short a time period as Jimi Hendrix. Beginning his solo career in 1966, by the time of his death in in September 1970 Hendrix had already released four albums that can only be described as classics and had wowed