Cheval Sombre – ‘Cheval Sombre (10th Anniversary Reissue)’ (2020)
The music of Cheval Sombre (Chris Porpora) is as seamless and intricate as the vintage Persian carpet laying across my living room floor. His music flows with an...
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JAZZ CORNER Presents: Grant Green – ‘Idle Moments’ (1965)
I find it a sincere shame that there is not more jazz where the primary instrument is the guitar. That said, I’ve heard fine soling jazz where there’s...
‘Paper Cup’ from upcoming album by Real Estate (2020)
I’m sure that if I hadn’t seen the official video of Real Estate’s “Paper Cup,” from their soon to be released album The Main Thing, featuring an enormous...
The Hanging Stars – ‘A New Kind of Sky’ (2020)
With album art instantly bringing to mind CSN&Y’s hypnotic Déjà Vu, the Hanging Stars, who hail from London, weave a genuine mix of psychedelic folk laced with country...
The Asteroid No.4 – ‘Under My Umbrella’ b/w ‘The House of the Seventh Moon’ (2020)
Always seeming to step back in time, yet revitalizing those hazed sounds that made the 60's so memorable, Asteroid 4 have released a very limited 7" record, employing...
Modern Nature – ‘How to Live’ (2019)
Make no mistake, How To Live is not Ultimate Painting, nor does the music revealed here travel down that same path. I use the word ‘reveal’ as that’s...
Fat Elvis Record Interview
An Evening with Sean Russell, Talking Coloured Vinyl and Record Production … by Jenell Kesler Tonight I have the pleasure of speaking with Sean Russell, the owner of...
Will Johnson – ‘Wire Mountain’ (2019)
As of late, Texas musicians have been digging deep, where Will Johnson is no exception, teetering on the edge of his rickety chair, breathing life into this mindful...
Cheval Sombre – ‘Been a Lover’ / ‘The Calfless Cow’ (2019)
Cheval’s new single swept me back with a gentle hand to his first album, where the song “Been a Lover,” laid waste to my soul, a number filled...
Allah-Las – ‘LAHS’ (2019)
I’ll freely admit to being less than enamored with the last two albums from the Allah Las. It’s not that those records were inherently bad, it’s just that...