New Year’s Eve? More like New Year’s Streams.
Your guide to close out 2020 streaming all of our favorite jams.
Category: The Music
Covert Concert Series blooms from a Quarantine Necessity
Covert Concert Series (CCS): a team of professionals offering artists the production and platform to live stream their music, has streamed local talent such as Echos Talk Back, Plynth, AMFM, Hunter Root (of Medusa’s Disco), and Uncle Jake & the 18 Wheel Gang since its late-May conception.
Single Release: “Complete” by Better Human
“When the pandemic hit the East Coast and venues shuttered their doors, Better Human scaled back out of necessity, playing virtual sets in a solo or smaller band configuration with Wexler taking over lead vocals. New single ‘Complete,’ released on Halloween, bears the marks of this transition without sacrificing any of the band‘s core sonic DNA.”
Hunter Root’s “Mimicking the Sun like Dandelions” reflects Pieces of Us All
Stretching into corners of the emotional mind… it’s without a doubt that Root writes his truth, a kind of truth that some people can spend all their lives trying to avoid confronting, while others find their own honesty in his.
Brendan Brisk takes us to Relaxylvania
“I think everyone has the power to imagine great music, but moving it out of your mind and into the physical world is a great process. Usually within that process, my ideas morph into their own entities, which is exactly what happened with Relaxylvania.”
#ThrowbackThursday album review: You Are Literally a Metaphor, Consider the Source
Consider the Source’s latest full-length makes up for their four-year gap in studio releases with a meaty, seventy-plus minute offering of highly inventive multisectional instrumental epics.
#ThrowbackThursday album review: Songs About Worms, Trap Rabbit
“In Songs About Worms, a thorough combination of the novel and the vintage creates an endlessly compelling sonic palette that is at once unique and familiar.”
#ThrowbackThursday album review: Gnomon, The Clock Reads
Gnomon, The Clock Reads’ second LP, is an excellent primer on their unique sound and personality as a band. The instrumental jazz quartet makes use of two guitarists along with bass and drums, a relatively unusual configuration that raises challenges ably met by the ensemble.
Album Review: “Impact” by U.S.E. Trio
“Here, the lack of a conventional harmony instrument allows the trio to communicate their ideas with nothing more than the unadorned essentials: rhythm, bass, and melody. The musicians deploy the full extent of their resources to ensure the listener never feels that absence. The focus, energy, and precision of the ensemble’s interplay and the fluency of their improvisation provide plenty to occupy a listener’s attention.”
Album Review: “Moves” by Tweed
Tweed has always been a live performance-focused group, and their patience in waiting to release an LP has allowed them to take the time necessary to differentiate themselves from their peers, to develop their unique voice, and to learn how best to translate that voice to an effective record. This patience has paid dividends, and all that work is evident on Moves.