Legendary R&B singer Freddie Jackson, the Harlem-born vocalist whose unmistakable voice and timeless love songs helped define contemporary R&B throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, has passed away at the… The post Legendary R&B Singer Freddie Jackson Passes Away At 69 appeared first on .

As far back as he can remember, Justin Timberlake always wanted to be a human beatbox. Even in his *NSYNC days, Timberlake would take every available opportunity to go dorm-room Rahzel on the world. Maybe he was doing it even before then. Maybe he was getting spit all over his hands on The Mickey Mouse Club. I’m not a deep …

The Portland-based singer-songwriter and composer Gabriel Kahane already graced us with one ambitious album this year: Elevator Songs, a theatrical, high-concept collaboration with the vocal group Roomful Of Teeth. Today he announces another collaborative LP, this time with Finland’s Pekka Kuusisto under the band name Council. The post Council (Gabriel Kahane & Pekka Kuusisto) Announce Debut Album <em>This Day, Every …

Last weekend, former Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello held his star-studded one-day Power To The People festival at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. The whole event was framed as a left-wing political gathering, and Morello joined Bruce Springsteen for a set of protest songs. Before the show, Morello did a Rolling Stone interview, and he went viral …

We last heard from Joe Stevens’ oft-morphing musical project Peel Dream Magazine about a year ago with the release of the mini-album Taurus. Today he’s announced an expanded edition, which I guess brings it to regular album size. This will mark the first time Taurus is released on vinyl. Along with the announcement comes “Blind Faith,” a skittering electronic pop …

If you caught Dazy’s opening set on Militarie Gun’s recent tour, then you probably got a good look at Andrew Madore, the guy who plays guitar for James Goodson on tour. He’s hard to miss. I met Madore at the Charlottesville show on that tour a couple of weeks ago. Nice guy. Really tall — like 6’7″ — but not …

Most of us over here dig Soccer Mommy, right? Now, try to imagine how Soccer Mommy’s earlier records might’ve sounded if they had really big ’90s-style fuzz-pop choruses. If that were to happen, you might get something like the new single from Baby Wave, a Nashville trio who just signed a brand new deal with Saddle Creek. The post Baby …

Shane Butler is a member of the great New England psych/folk/pop/rock band Quilt, which technically still exists per Wikipedia but hasn’t released any music in a decade. After Quilt’s most recent album Plaza dropped in 2016, Butler teamed with Caity Shaffer in the similarly oriented duo Olden Yolk. Now, after a seven-year absence, he’s back under his own name. The …

The Omaha-born, New York-based DIY indie rocker Anna McClellan released her Space, you big cloud on Father/Daughter earlier this year, and she just sang backup on a bunch of songs from Greg Freeman’s new album All Set The Bone. Next month, McClellan will release another EP, her first for new label Exploding In Sound. This one is called South Of …

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