Americana’s newcomer Jobi Riccio faces the pressure on her new record
The country and bluegrass songwriter talks about her sophomore album, Face the Feeling, out May 15.
Americana’s newcomer Jobi Riccio faces the pressure on her new record
The country and bluegrass songwriter talks about her sophomore album, Face the Feeling, out May 15.
Americana’s newcomer Jobi Riccio faces the pressure on her new record
The country and bluegrass songwriter talks about her sophomore album, Face the Feeling, out May 15.
Simo Cell and Abdullah Miniawy: Dying Is the Internet review | Ammar Kalia’s global album of the month
(Dekmantel UFO)The latest collaboration between the French producer and Egyptian singer pairs soaring musicality with frenetic electronics to examine the age of AI Egyptian singer Abdullah Miniawy has spent the past decade lending his melismatic voice and Arabic classical maqam melodies to a fascinating range of experimental music, and. Alongside French trumpeter Erik Truffaz he […]
Texas Tornados Member, Tex-Mex Music Legend Augie Myers Dies
He was an American music original, a Texas music legend, a beloved member of the Tex-Mex/Tejano music community, and a psychedelic rocker before he was anything else. He was Augie Myers. Over the years, the Sir Douglas Quintet and Doug Sahm’s solo efforts became famous for mixing in more country, Tex-Mex, and other influences into […]
Live Nation and Justice Department reach settlement in antitrust case
The trial, which began a week ago in a New York City courtroom, aimed to break up Live Nation and its subsidiary, Ticketmaster. (Image credit: NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Album Review – Trey Hensley’s “Can’t Outrun The Blues”
Hensley’s music doesn’t just come with that wide open appeal, it deserves that wide open audience to reintroduce this blinding, inspiring musicianship back into the national conversation of what music should be. Bluegrass (#520) on the Country DDS. AI = “clean” It turns out this Trey Hensley guy is pretty good at music. He does […]
Grime rapper and producer Dot Rotten dies aged 37
Musician created numerous volumes of beats that were acclaimed across the grime scene, before crossing over with solo chart success British rapper and producer Dot Rotten, who flourished in the grime scene before crossing over to mainstream success, has died aged 37. The musician, real name Joseph Ellis-Stevenson, reportedly died in the Gambia. His family […]
Echo and the Bunnymen review – Ian McCulloch leaves it to the crowd to sing these timelessly great songs
02 Academy, Leeds The frontman struggled to get through most of the band’s choruses but that left space for Will Sergeant’s glorious psychedelic shapes and a supportive sing along Ian McCulloch once cheekily described the Bunnymen as “the greatest band in the world, the greatest songs in the history of time and the greatest singer”, […]
Singing the news: the story of Italy’s last ‘cantastorie’ – still performing in his 90s
Famous for combining true crime and political scandals into songs – and antagonising Silvio Berlusconi – Franco Trincale keeps the tradition alive in his nursing home When Franco Trincale was a barber boy, he used to sing Sicilian songs in breaks between customers, his boss strumming the guitar. Back then, he could never have imagined […]