Tucked neatly in the back of Sugar Maple, the Okka Disk performance space is best known for its annual jazz fest set to turn 6 years old this year. In the meanwhile it also makes a temporary home for jazz musicians and their extended family when the occasion calls. None more suitable that a rare... Continue Reading →
Here to Fore, The Naima, Circle-A at 8, SD Release
You can't go much further underground without calling diggers hotline, than the two ravens together know as the The Naima. A metal band playing to jazz principles can hardly be stopped, or seen. They'll drop a super limited edition SD release this Sunday at Circle-A. Supposedly there's some crazy videos and other lo-tech stuff to... Continue Reading →
Best Music Shots 2013, Secret Lover, The Lasso
Burrowing deep in a crease at an uncharted pole of your being, resonating frequencies in rare, often musty air; an entity bearing the mark of Rock music, Secret Lover arrives. They cruise well after the nostalgia that has many clamoring for simple times found in early century blues roots. They dig far beneath concrete foundations,... Continue Reading →
Old Time Good, Shank Hall, Dom Flemons
A banjo slung over his shoulder, his right hand swung at the wrist allowing his fingers to effortlessly pick, strum and coax with other means, tinny notes found by the curious fingers of his other hand working the fret, wringing cords, knuckles contorting unnaturally, finger tips nailing the wiry strings. Don Flemons moonlit Shank Hall,... Continue Reading →
Live and Direct, New Sound Underground, D’Amato
Under a dense canopy stacked with overgrowth, "Urban" music grew unabashed through the early part of the millennium, then people really stopped caring about the tangled vines of braggadocio and opulence. A few exquisite varieties of hardy musical perennials fought back in the mainstream and eventually were choked out by the seething onslaught of invasive... Continue Reading →