Music
5 Card Stud, 5 Card Stud (Independent)
These suburban cowboys are the type whose Country comes naturally filtered through classic rock, but in this case that’s a good thing—the shades of soul, rock and blues in this […]
Joey van Leeuwen, Reflection (Independent)
Reflection” can mean a shimmering surface you can see yourself in, but it can describe the act of looking inside oneself as well, and it’s a dichotomy that free-form jazz […]
Vicky P, Can’t Hold Me Back (Independent)
If only everyone’s best intentions were enough when it came to The Children. You may have heard of Victoria Pike, a.k.a. Vicky P, from her YouTube video “No Bullying,” a […]
Mark Rubin, Jew of Oklahoma Southern Discomfort (Independent)
Calling yourself the “Jew of Oklahoma,” not just in your album titles or songs but right there in your very stage name, is an attention grabber of positively Trumpian proportions. […]
Junko Beat, JamKronic (Indpendent)
What to label this? The rhythm section was once known as Junko Partners, but they’ve since split from that nucleus and mutated into the kind of funk band that features […]
Sweet Jones, Home Vol: 1 (Independent)
Couples Americana? Sure, why not? The husband-and-wife team of the DeOrazios, Melissa (vocals and guitar) and Matthew (guitar and everything else), wrote and recorded this 5-song EP at home, imbued […]
So Long Storyland, So Long Storyland (Independent)
You can’t beat a great backstory. Andrew deBuys, a.k.a. Rathbone, was an aspiring songwriter teaching at a girls’ private school in post-K New Orleans when he took on a new […]
Charlie Musselwhite, I Ain’t Lyin’… (Henrietta Records)
You really do have to be a living legend—supposed harp heir to Sonny Boy Williamson I, inspiration for Elwood Blues, and last living remnant of the Chicago blues scene of […]
Bionica, Future Settlers (Independent)
At first blush, Bionica seems like any other jazz-rock outfit with a clear-throated, clear-headed, and somewhat winsome female lead vocalist, but whoops, here comes the vocoder: This quintet’s actually made […]
Seth Hitsky and Black Dragons, Rain all Day (Independent)
Even for a twenty-first century NOLA transplant, Seth Hitsky took a strange path here, moving from Detroit’s rock clubs to playing jazz, cabaret piano and world music in Chicago. Then […]
