A music blog serving up a (not so) daily record recommendation
The blues is back baby. Or is it the blues are back? Whichever it is, it's back. This just released 2026 debut record comes to us from Ethiopian-born, Connecticut-raised Amani Burnham. Once you listen to this album you'll find it hard to believe that
This 2026 record is the seventh by American indie artist Mirah whose musical career has spanned more than a quarter century though this is the first time I had heard of her. This album took many years to make having been thrown off course by the pandemic, the death of
I've been listening to a lot of Rush over the past few weeks. When I say a lot I basically mean I've been going back and forth between Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures (two of my three favorite Rush records, the third being Signals ). You see
So when my friend Allen texted me and another mutual friend a couple weeks ago to see if we were interested in seeing the band Spiritual Cramp at a small venue here in Houston, my first thought was, "Who?" I proceeded to look them up online, pull up
Before I begin I want to give a shout out to my music industry friend, Keith Jopling, who just released a book (which I took delivery of as I'm writing this) all about how the record album has endured over the years and seems to be making a
When I previously covered Elvis Presley it was with a compilation record. However, this 1960 album is a record in the truest sense of the word, at least as much as it can be when you're talking about Elvis - he never actually wrote any of the songs he
So this record hasn't actually come out yet - it's due to be released mid-March 2026 but I just wanted to quickly throw this out there based on the tracks that have been pre-released. Haute and Freddy are a synth-pop / avant-garde duo composed
So I guarantee that whoever happens to be reading this has never heard of this circa 1989 / 1990 record or the band that put it out. That is because this music only ever existed on a limited number of cassette tapes that were released back then and this band, comprised
Some of you may have heard that Steve Cropper, the great guitarist for Memphis soul studio / backing band Booker T. & the MG's, recently died. So what better time to feature this 1966 instrumental record of standard Christmas tunes than on Christmas Day 2025. Although I didn'
I don't foresee many of you checking this record out for a couple of reasons. First, it's classical music and contemporary classical at that. Even I don't really listen to much contemporary classical - I stick to the tried and true composers of centuries past.
When I first wrote about Geese back in 2021 they were an up and coming, scrappy indie band with an interesting debut record. Now, with this 2025 album, they are on the verge of indie rock stardom. If you've had even one ear on the indie music heartbeat
I've covered Josh Ritter several times already so you may wonder why I'm, yet again, spilling ink about him. Well he consistently puts out really good records to the point that he, along with Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee, are hands down my favorite contemporary Americana singer-
So about a month ago I speculated that this record may have been my most played of 2025. Well, as I'm writing this Apple Music just unleashed their "Replay" feature for subscribers (think "Spotify Wrapped" but for Apple Music). Turns out that Hurray for
Although I covered Jojo Orme in her guise as Heartworms before, this current 2025 record is actually her full length debut. This record clocks in at only about 37 minutes but Orme makes every second count. As I mentioned previously she really reminds me of a less noisy and more
When my friend Tom first sent this 2024 record my way back in April of that year, I gave it a listen or two but then quickly forgot about it. It just didn't stick for whatever reason. Maybe it was because the name of the band didn'