Pop Will Eat Itself deserve to be more celebrated. The Stourbridge outfit were one of the first 1980s bands to realise the potential of smashing punky indie-rockin’ into hip hop and electronic dance.
They had hits, many great songs, and covered the same territory that later gave The Prodigy mega-success (Delete Everything contains a rackety reimagining of the two groups’ 1994 collaboration, “Their Law”). Unfortunately, a combination of their major label stabbing them in the back, and being perceived by some critics as cartoonishly adolescent, faded them out in the mid-Nineties. But they returned a few years ago and maintain an urgent liveliness.
They retain two original members, including Graham Crabb. Fellow frontman…
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Missionary Girls have been gaining traction in the local Portland scene, described as a promising new band that is “doing something off the wall and unique”.
A new box set from Rhino offer nearly all the studio material of Athens, Georgia alt-rock icons The B-52’s. The Warner Reprise Years brings together the six albums and two EPs the quirky quintet put together between 1979 and 1992 – a period where they went from cult favorites to unlikely hitmakers. The collection feature the group’s 1979 self-titled debut, 1980’s Wild Planet, the 1981 and 1982 EPs Party Mix and Mesopotamia, Whammy! (1983), Bouncing Off the Satellites (1986) – the last album to feature all five original members – plus Cosmic Thing (1989) and Good Stuff (1992).
Jim Jones All Stars once again unleash upon us all their intense, high-octane and evangelical fusion of hard driving rock’n’roll, garage rock, gritty rhythm and blues and gospel through the release of their new live album, 
Even before ambient firmly formed as a genre, with krautrock mid explorations by Tangerine Dream, Popol Vuh, Harmonia and others, there has always been a thin line between explorative and simply boring, with artists slipping into the latter often falling into the very dreaded New Age genre. Sticking to the former often meant following the path the above-mentioned initial explorers took, but that meant re-imagining the elements they brought and adding new ones along the way.
Few guitarists can transform a single note into a melody that sings, burns and heals the way Carlos Santana can. This special collection of live performances-captured from rare and legendary radio broadcasts spanning key moments of his career-offers a front-row seat to the artistry of one of music’s true visionaries.
Sam Burchfield’s music rises from the foothills of South Carolina near the Blue Ridge Mountains, where the landscapes shaped his sound and spirit. Now based in North Georgia, he channels the essence of the natural world into Nature Speaks, his latest album, a collection that invites listeners to dive into their own emotional and spiritual depths. Burchfield recorded Nature Speaks in just five days, capturing a raw immediacy that mirrors the album’s intimate themes. He opens with ‘Spirit of the Night,’ a warm and inviting track that immediately pulls listeners into his world. His songwriting radiates openness and honesty, striking a chord that feels both personal and universal.
Too often, we forget where a musician came from as time goes by. Although it is essential to recognize that, before some of the most popular Rock-n-Roll singers went ‘solo,’ they were most definitely once a part of a band.
The architects of modern fingerstyle guitar built their temple with steel. Sure, you have your Bola Setes, your Tashi Dorjis, the odd occasion Six Organs of Admittance would reach for a nylon-string; but the vast majority of fingerpickers walking in John Fahey’s footsteps seem to have felt similarly as Robbie Basho, who once claimed that while the classical guitar may be fit for more romantic songs, steel-strings had the “fire.” 
Take Brian Jackson and Gil Scott-Heron’s iconic track “The Bottle”, add a sublime vocal performance from UK soul legend Omar, and put it in the hands of house music pioneers Masters At Work-and you get a version that’s both timeless and urgent, filled with joy, fire, and social consciousness, and built for the dancefloor.
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A kick drum stitched from bottle tops, a babatone that functions like a well-worn engine, and warm voices that rise together. This is the sound of Malawi’s talented 
A mix of tradition and Afrofuturism, acoustic and electronic, east and west fumigating in a cauldron of rhythms, chants, solo explorations and full ensemble blow-outs, 
…Super Deluxe Edition collects more than 100 tracks across four CDs, including the original mono and stereo mixes of the album, plus newly created stereo mixes and alternate mono mixes. Two additional discs trace the album’s creative arc with demos, outtakes, and backing tracks sourced from the original session reels
Extensive seven-CD box set following the career of English singer-songwriter Thea Gilmore. Covering her recordings from 2008 to 2015.
…Trombonist, singer, and producer 