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’The Public Image Is Rotten’ from Public Image Ltd is an in depth history of one of popular music’s most exciting and innovative bands.
Read More »Music Review: PiL – ‘The Public Image is Rotten’ – Forty Years of Public Image Ltd
Dance Music
Music Review: Melbreeze – ‘Animazonia’
The music integrates jazz idioms with South American dance and psychedelic synth-pop, forming a mixture that is both traditional and unique-sounding.
Read More »Music Review: Hungry March Band – ‘Running Through with the Sadness’
'Running Through with the Sadness' provides delicious, heady music.
Read More »Music Review: Sleepy Zuhoski – ‘Better Haze’
'Better Haze' is nuanced, tantalizing, and refreshing.
Read More »Music Review/Video Premiere: Free Radicals ‘No State Solution’ and ‘Dub for Besouro’
'No State Solution' is innovative, brisk, declarative, and supercharged.
Read More »First Festival Sacramento 2018: Review (May 5, Tanzanite Park)
Hip-hop legends Blackalicious and punk rock sister duo Dog Party headlined Saturday's lineup at the fourth annual First Festival 2018 on May 5 in Sacramento, CA.
Read More »Music Review: Haywoode – ‘Roses: Remixes & Rarities’
A thoroughly enjoyable set that will make for hours of enjoyment amongst listeners who appreciate soulful dance music.
Read More »Music Review: OYLS – ‘Ghosts’ Emanates Radiant Timbres
'Ghosts' exudes an inscrutable tension, tantalizing colors, and a gracious expression of harmonic energy.
Read More »SXSW Music Festival 2018: March 17 (Field Division, In the Valley Below, Lola Marsh, Wyldest, and More)
Even though there was technically one last night of South by Southwest 2018, it still seemed as if Saturday was the festival's one true finale.
Read More »SXSW Music Festival 2018: March 16 (Caroline Rose, Lo Moon, Soccer Mommy, Now, Now, and More)
Caroline Rose, Lucy Rose, and Soccer Mommy were among the Friday highlights at SXSW Music Festival 2018 on March 16 in Austin, Texas.
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