Samantha Fish, Death Wish Blues Review Samantha Fish and Jesse Dayton’s Death Wish Blues: A Modern-Day Blues Odyssey Death Wish Blues, Samantha Fish’s collaborative project with Jesse Dayton, is a bluesy tour de force, a cyclone sweeping through the genres of rock, country, and traditional blues. Think of it as a blues album with a … Read more
Mike Block & Sandeep Das, Where the Soul Never Dies Review Cellist Mike Block and tablaist Sandeep Das have teamed up to create a stirring album of fourteen songs called Where the Soul Never Dies. Block is a pioneering cello player, singer, composer, and educator, hailed by Yo-Yo Ma as the “ideal musician of the 21st-Century.” With a … Read more
Mike Block, Guzo Review Cellist Mike Block is hailed by Yo-Yo Ma as the “ideal musician of the 21st-Century.” That is a serious accolade for the pioneering cello player, singer, composer, and educator. He is equally passionate and is committed to inspiring individuals and connecting communities through cross-cultural collaboration through music. Block can do this … Read more
Alex Lilly, 2% Milk Review Connect with Alex Lilly: Facebook |Instagram Alex Lilly (Obi Best, Touché, Zero Dezire and The Living Sisters) is a Los Angeles songwriter, signer, producer, keyboardist. Lilly started playing piano at fourteen and then guitar at age fifteen. Her early influences included Smokey Robinson, Joni Mitchell, and The Beatles. Later, she … Read more
Premiere: SHTUBY Band Experience, The Red Circus Review Connect with SHTUBY Band Experience: Facebook |YouTube SHTUBY is a musical experience that blends both visual and auditory stimulus to create something magical and that is why they are known as the SHTUBY Band Experience. SHTUBY is an artist, a multi-instrumentalist and a master of electronic music. … Read more
Joyce Kwon, Dream of Home Review Connect with Joyce Kwon: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram Joyce Kwon is a Korean-born, American-raised singer-songwriter, an accomplished multi-instrumentalist, classically trained composer and zither player based in Los Angeles. As a young child in America, Kwon struggled for acceptance, she was accepted to the arts high school in Los … Read more
Joshua Redman is back with a new quartet and new album, Still Dreaming, which features Ron Miles on cornet, Scott Colley on bass and Brian Blade on drums. The four musically and emotionally explore the many connections between the band members and the group, Old and New Dreams, a group composed of tenor saxophone player … Read more
The fabled frontman of the band Korn, Jonathan Davis, has released his debut solo album titled, Black Labyrinth. Containing thirteen songs that focus on Davis’ melodic and robust vocal abilities, the tracks where primarily recorded live to tape, a departure from Korn’s heavily designed, meticulous, studio approach to creation. There are certainly moments when … Read more
3MA is the meeting of three string-instrument virtuosi, Ballaké Sissoko (kora), Driss El Maloumi (Oud) and Rajery (valiha), all three are symbolic of their countries in Africa. Centuries of kora musical traditions run through Ballaké Sissoko’s fingers. In 1997, together with his cousin Toumani Diabaté, he recorded New Ancient Strings, which refers to the very … Read more
After Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn’s wildly successful self-titled debut album, the duet is back with a fresh set of songs, amazing banjo playing and singing called, Echo in the Valley. The two approach the banjo from different angles, one uses the three-finger right hand method and the other a clawhammer right hand style. They … Read more