Editor’s Note: I wrote this 8 years ago with so much hope and vigor about the state of change that was to come. It was such an honor and fun exercise to incorporate political history into what’s essentially a review of an old record I loved. It’s a strange and sad sensation to read this [...]
Will Sprott has been brewing up new music and it's coming out on cassette & download 9/22/17. The new album, Ten Fingers, features 10 new songs with Sprott leading the way on vocals, guitars, organs, & synths. Check out the song, My Mind, on his bandcamp page & you can pre-order the entire album as well. [...]
KFJC 89.7 FM - Blowing Minds Since 1959 – 2LP – 2009 Located in Los Altos, CA at Foothill College, KFJC 89.7 has been providing the Bay Area with a true alternative listening experience on the airwaves since 1959. 2009 marked the 50 year anniversary of KFJC's existence, and this compilation commemorates the occasion with [...]
The Shacks 10” EP / CD – Big Crown – 2016 Leon Michels is becoming a legend in the East Coast retro soul scene founding bands like El Michels Affair & Menehan Street Band and playing in groups such as The Expressions & the Mighty Imperials. From playing multiple instruments, to songwriting, & producing he [...]
Tradition - Captain Ganja & the Space Patrol LP – Venture – 1980 (Bokeh Versions RE LP 2017) When Jamaican music hit the UK scene in the late 60s, it was a merely a novelty offered to the working class teens of all color. With the start-up of Trojan Records and sounds such as Ska, [...]
Back in the mid 80's, my uncle Mario would take my cousins and I to and from school, and during these car trips is when I got my first taste of so much of the music I still hold near and dear to me to this day. The sounds of rap and freestyle boomed through [...]
The Icelandic producer, Felix Leifur returns to Berlin's prominent Deep House label, Dirt Crew recordings and completely shakes up House Music as we know it with his sophomore EP, "In General". Davíð Sveinn Bjarnason, aka Felix Leifur, got his start in the scene with a collaborative project on local label, Lagaffe Tapes, between himself and [...]
Stones Throw is a panoply of inventive music, a cadre of artists whom flout convention while making some of the most varied, artful projects in recent memory. It’s all due to Chris Manak, who helms the powerhouse label which he founded in San Jose, his hometown and early base of operations. Manak, known widely as [...]
Durand Jones came from humble southern gospel roots. He attended college at Indiana University in Bloomington and it was there he met drummer Aaron Frazer & guitarist Blake Rhein. The three began writing soul tunes and recording straight to tape. Little did they know that they would become Durand Jones & the Indications & release [...]
By The Crew At NERDTORIOUS.COM Iconoclastic rap group Third Sight has stealthily built a resume over the last two decades as one of the more prolific and consistent backpack-style acts left. They have effectively outlived the two genres with which they were initially associated— Underground Hip-Hop and Turntablism. By staying true to their core aesthetic, [...]
