Music Archives: 02/2020

While I love all three of the Big Star albums released in the 1970s, I’ve always had a soft spot for Radio City. It’s the…

Beat Poetry for Survivalists is the whimsical–and rockin’–new collaboration between Peter Buck, late of R.E.M.–maybe you’ve heard of them?–and onetime Auteur, author, artist and radio…

In the late 1970s, Steve Piccolo was a founding member of the seminal No Wave jazz band Lounge Lizards along with John Lurie, his brother…

The mid 1970s pairing of Mariangela, a promising young singer/songwriter, and the Greek composer/musician/producer Vangelis might have seemed illogical on paper, but the result was…

In the liner notes for an upcoming Charlie Parker box set, jazz journalist Neil Tesser writes that one of Bird’s songs suggests a style of…

Brian Jonestown Massacre. A small act of kindness can change everything. Alain Bibal was gifted a camera for his fiftieth birthday. It changed his life.…

Every week Forced Exposure send out their email blast of new releases. If you are not receiving their newsletter, I suggest getting on it stat…

Who are these masked men? That was the question many people were asking when a video popped up on their timeline four years ago featuring…

Ivan and Iggy, 1979 (courtesy of Ivan Kral). Sunday evening, I was saddened to learn that Ivan Kral had passed away earlier in the day.…

Behold the premiere of “Peace and Happiness,” a previously unreleased track from Churchical Chant Of The Iyabinghi, one of On-U Sound’s upcoming spate of releases…