Eclectic Vibes
by Andrew Frey
Jahdan Blakkamoore - Buzzrock Warrior
Jahdan BlakkamooreBuzzrock Warrior
Label: Gold Dust
A raw, innovative and intense blending of dancehall, roots, R&B, cumbia, hip hop and dub from this Guyana born but Brooklyn raised musical warrior. Teamed with fellow Dutty Artz members Matt Shadetek and DJ /rupture this release strikes hardest when Blakkamoore’s intense and diverse lyrics are melded to mighty dub and dancehall DJ beats.
• Jahdan Blakkamoore WebsiteKyle Hollingsworth - Then There’s Now
Kyle HollingsworthThen There’s Now
Label: Sci Fidelity Records
This String Cheese Incident alumni has developed a finely designed array of catchy heartfelt melodies and immediately palatable rhythms. Compelling choruses and interspersed electronica electrify these creations with a broad and jam friendly resonance.
• Kyle Hollingsworth WebsiteNuke The Soup - Make Waves Not War
Nuke The SoupMake Waves Not War
Label: Morada Music
Mellow, polished and safe adult rock with a splash of jam topped with feel good, well worn backbeats and lead by Mark Davison (Cubic Feet). Parts of this album work for me and the other half falls off somewhere into some land of energetic negligence.
• Nuke The Soup WebsitePortugal. The Man - The Satanic Satanist
Portugal. The ManThe Satanic Satanist
Label: Equal Vision Records
Ultra smooth and satisfying vocal croonings melt over the infectious and versatile throwback soul grooves stuffed with piquant electronica that ineffably flow to fulfillment. As a bonus, the CD case is a multi-layered die cut blotter art casualty of rare vintage
• Portugal. The Man Website • Portugal. The Man WikiBaroness - Blue Record
BaronessBlue Record
Label: Relapse Records
Epic heavy riffs pushed by purposeful plodding beats and innocent yet voluminous teasings of the determinate droning disillusionment. Storming forth from their Savannah home, this engaging engine of dark and entrancing operations is hurtling to a vast new plane of resilience and recognition.
• Baroness Website • Baroness WikiJimi Tenor & Tony Allen - Inspiration Information
Jimi Tenor & Tony AllenInspiration Information
Label: Strut Records
Pairing together Finnish experimental musician Jimi Tenor with Tony Allen, an amazing Afrobeat drumming legend, has ushered forth a curious cache of mind warbling avant jazz creations . Lyrics are spun with experience and dark sarcasm while being treated with tribal beats, horns, flutes, and samples through a wildly unpredictable imagination.
• Jimi Tenor & Tony Allen WebsiteMadLove - White With Foam
MadLoveWhite With Foam
Label: Ipecac Recordings
Dwelling in the dreaminess of a sardonic state induced by the oft melancholy female fronted lyrics, this Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle, Secret Chiefs 3, Fantomas) project executes resolutely refined rock band outcroppings via a quirky collection of music aficionados. While potentially falling off as initially flaccid, repeated listens evokes a more memorable and shapely timbre.
• MadLove WebsiteSomething To Burn - Transitions
Something To BurnTransitions
Label: Softdrive Records
Powerful and dynamic hard rock with strong choruses and inescapable commercial appeal. Dynamically designed but mostly over polished to the point of sterility. Softdrive Records was founded by Scott Weiland so unsurprisingly they’re touring with Stone Temple Pilots this fall.
• Something To Burn WebsiteYo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band - Greatest Hips Volume II
Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty BandGreatest Hips Volume II
Label: Self Released
YMBFBB’s live show captured here is saturated with shooting anthemic lyrics, crowd pleasing antics, mega grooves, a booty shakin’ brass section and an energetic audience. Six heady hard working musicians from Asheville, NC blow the doors off the joint through their elevated conflagration of musicianship and attendance participation. Find a sweet spot and ride out the jams man!
• Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band WebsiteYonder Mountain String Band - The Show
Yonder Mountain String BandThe Show
Label: Frog Pad Records
Sweet, clever, quaint, touching or zany this Colorado foursome continues to please by carrying on with their tradition of invigorating and infusing traditional bluegrass and stringed instrumentation with a swinging new rock n roll view. If you are lucky enough to have a chance, their live show will revitalize and renew as few do.
• Yonder Mountain String Band Website • Yonder Mountain String Band WikiElectric Six - Kill
Electric SixKill
Label: Metropolis Records
Another fun frolic into musical flamboyancy from these Detroit veterans of kitsch-n-roll. Brashly and boldly re-spinning their old disco punk methodology into a wisened vision of musical maturity results in Electric Six kicking ass again and again!
• Electric Six Website • Electric Six WikiGenitorturers - Blackheart Revolution
GenitorturersBlackheart Revolution
Label: Retribution Music
If Wendy O Williams sang for White Zombie you would have an inclination of the inspirational avenues pursued by this self proclaimed train wreck of decadence and debauchery. Once again tempting the tainted with their strong and groovy anthemic industrial metal that’s slicked, sticky and jazzed for success. Let’s go cum junkies!
• Genitorturers Website • Genitorturers WikiView More
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