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Fitzgerald, Monk, Other Jazz Greats Reissued

Fitzgerald, Monk, Other Jazz Greats Reissued

January 31, 2011, By

Albums by Ella Fitzgerald, Thelonious Monk, and other jazz giants will be reissued March 15 through Concord Music Group’s Original Jazz Classics Remasters series. The ...

Com Truise Wants You To Have This Free Track

Com Truise Wants You To Have This Free Track

January 31, 2011, By

Com Truise goes deep. From the sounds of his Cyanide Sisters EP reissued last week via Ghostly International, it seems that the Princetown, NJ producer (...

Ladysmith Black Mambazo – Songs From A Zulu Farm

Ladysmith Black Mambazo – Songs From A Zulu Farm

January 31, 2011, By

Since Joseph Shabalala formed Ladysmith Black Mambazo over forty-five years ago the all male chorus has embodied the sound of South Africa by bringing Zulu ...

Iron And Wine @ Radio City: January 29, 2011

Iron And Wine @ Radio City: January 29, 2011

January 31, 2011, By

Sam Beam’s Iron And Wine project used to be pseudonymous—Beam was Iron and Wine; Iron and Wine was Beam. The name conjured up ...

Blaqstarr @ Santos Party House: January 27, 2011

Blaqstarr @ Santos Party House: January 27, 2011

January 28, 2011, By

A bit of background for the uninitiated: Baltimore-bred DJ, Blaqstarr (real name Charles Smith), has been putting out his version of dance music since his ...

Prince Rama To Expand US Minds On Spring Tour

Prince Rama To Expand US Minds On Spring Tour

January 28, 2011, By

Prince Rama, a band to which the phrase “tribal-psychedelic” can truly be applied, has announced an upcoming US tour. The trio plays a brand of ...

Fergus And Geronimo Charges Ahead

Fergus And Geronimo Charges Ahead

January 28, 2011, By

Texas band Fergus And Geronimo will embark on a North American tour this month, in support of its recently-released debut album, Unlearn (Hardly Art).The ...

Raphael Saadiq Plots US Tour, New Matching Suits

Raphael Saadiq Plots US Tour, New Matching Suits

January 28, 2011, By

Raphael Saadiq, the throwback soul singer who makes a career continuing where Motown left off, has announced a US tour in support of his upcoming ...

Konnichiwa! X Japan Takes On North America

Konnichiwa! X Japan Takes On North America

January 28, 2011, By

Japan’s all-time most successful rock act, X Japan, signed to EMI for an exclusive three year North American distribution deal. The first release is ...

East Village Radio To Open Record Label

East Village Radio To Open Record Label

January 28, 2011, By

New York City’s East Village Radio, an acclaimed online purveyor of underground and independent music, is venturing into new territory with the addition of ...

Wolves Like Us Signs To Prosthetic

Wolves Like Us Signs To Prosthetic

January 28, 2011, By

Norwegian-based hardcore band Wolves Like Us has just signed to heavy metal label Prosthetic Records. According to the label, the band is in the studio ...

Charles Bradley – No Time For Dreaming

Charles Bradley – No Time For Dreaming

January 28, 2011

A new foreman in the soul revival, Charles Bradley understands that the soul of the blues runs in the family. His debut record, No Time ...

Deerhoof  – Deerhoof Vs. Evil

Deerhoof – Deerhoof Vs. Evil

January 28, 2011, By

Almost fifteen years and eleven studio albums into its career, Deerhoof is quirkier and more fun than ever. With a new philosophy that no song ...

Metal And The Memphis Volbeat

Metal And The Memphis Volbeat

January 28, 2011

Story by Roger Lotring When Michael Poulsen, singer/guitarist of Danish metal vets Volbeat, found himself frustrated by the narrow parameters of the Euro death ...

The Sour Notes

Sonicbids Spotlight: The Sour Notes

January 28, 2011, By

For an unsigned band based in Austin, TX, the Sour Notes has big aspirations for its music. Aside from having five releases in a little ...

CMJ New Music Report 1184

CMJ New Music Report 1184

January 27, 2011

Deerhoof Is Most Evil