For this installment of Diversions we caught up with Kevin Morby on the eve of his upcoming release, A Night At The Little Los Angeles (Sundowner 4-Track Demos). Comprised of ten tracks recorded at Morby’s home studio in Kansas, we asked the singer-songwriter to riff on some of his all-time…
There are some people, like me, who consider Myriam Gendron’s Not So Deep as a Well to be one of the finest albums of the 2010s. It’s been seven long years since the Montreal artist released her luminous collection of Dorothy Parker poems set to music, but the wait has…
By JOHN DALY Yesterday Into Day is the new album from Rock-Folk-Prog musician and producer Gary Craig and it emotes a wide range of hard-earned wisdom, but, refreshingly, it’s done in an upbeat and compelling style. From the cinematic opener “Carousel of Time” to the introspective acoustic folk of “Mirrors,” to…
Photos and Review by HARRIET KAPLAN Berlin, one of the greatest pop and synth bands and icons of new wave period from the 1980s, delivered an effervescent and high-energy show at the Montclair Canyon Club. Opener PIERA was the perfect sonic appetizer with gorgeous and captivating synth sounds and engaging…
Rival Karma Release Strong Message with ‘Honey!’ Despite it’s upbeat and bold instrumentals, “Honey!” by Rival Karma is somber in subject matter. “The whole E.P. was born through the idea of manifesting the band’s different emotions through music.’Honey’ is the opening track of the E.P, so while it is musically…
In the late 1980s, after a split with his Spacemen 3 partner, Peter Kember, Jason Pierce set out to make a new kind of music, less guitar-driven, more orchestral, founded on hauntingly simple melodies, but blown out with lush arrangements, blistering noise and free-wheeling instrumental improvisation. Spiritualized drew on pop,…
I walked away from my first visit to the Indianapolis Zen Center wondering if I’d been initiated into a cult. Despite practicing zazen for years, I was unfamiliar and slightly unnerved by the chanting ritual that started the group’s Wednesday night meditation practice. I was greeted at the door by…
Edited by JOHN DALY UPDATED with photos Alice Cooper and Geezer Butler are among the rockers set to perform at Stand Up and Shout For Ronnie James Dio’s Birthday, a virtual event on Saturday, July 10 from Rolling Live Studios. The event, hosted on rollinglivestudios.com, begins at 2 p.m. Pacific time,…
I once saw Greta Morgan float in the middle of a set to rescue a bluebird that had gotten caught in a bag that was hanging from a power line. She brought her guitar with her and did not die. If you don’t believe me, I don’t blame you. Those…
Following the gentle cacophony of low-key album opener, “Good Morning”, Whitney K’s Two Years formally announces itself with a Velvets chug on “Trans-Canada Oil Boom Blues” — but hold on, hoss, it’s a few tracks deeper in that we find the heart of the album, “Cowboy City Rockers”. Recounting tales…