JD Simo is an American guitarist, singer-songwriter, producer, solo artist and former member of the rock band Simo. As a guitarist, songwriter and producer/engineer, Simo has worked with the likes of Jack White( Beyoncé Lemonade sessions), Phil Lesh, Luther Dickinson, Cowboy Jack Clement, Dave Cobb, Chris Isaak and Baz Lurhmann on the soundtrack to...
The Vegabonds are a Nashville-based American New South Rock band from Alabama, United States. The Vegabonds have released a new album "Sinners and Saints" via Blue Elan and have also unveiled a new video for single, "Heartache and a Memory" that takes their live play in new directions. The album shows serious songwriting chops from the band as a...
Prior to Eric Clapton, the idea of the guitar hero didn't exist in rock & roll. There were plenty of flashy players, but nothing along the lines of Clapton, who rocketed to fame in the 1960s as the guitarist for the Yardbirds, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, and Cream. I truly think that you'll flip over this recording, and probably rate it...
Hamish Anderson is an Australian blues rock guitarist, songwriter and singer. He has shared the stage with B.B. King. He has released two EPs : "Hamish Anderson" (2013) and "Restless" (2014). His debut album "Trouble" was released on 21 October 2016. He was the last person to open a show for B.B. King before he died. Hamish Anderson was...
Black Pumas is an American psychedelic soul band based in Austin, Texas, led by singer/songwriter Eric Burton and guitarist/producer Adrian Quesada. A collaboration between producer and multi-instrumentalist Adrian Quesada and singer/songwriter Eric Burton, Black Pumas fuse cinematic neo-soul, light psychedelia, and a touch of urban grit. Rising...
The War on Drugs is an American rock band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, formed in 2005. The band has been described as indie rock, heartland rock and neo-psychedelia, as well as part of the Americana music. Mixing the grand-scale guitar attack of Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine with a melodic sense and lyrical perspective that recall Bob...
Mess Esque is a collaboration between Helen Franzmann (McKisko) and Mick Turner (Dirty Three). "Mess Esque" the album is an ethereal, gentle delight: yearning brittle and delicate vocals that glide over subtle but barely restrained instrumentation that adds a gold filigree to a barbed wire brush. It has the raw and visceral edge of Velvet...
A fusion of experimental noise, free-jazz and improvisation, Springtime is the culmination of three renowned, multidisciplinary musicians each known for their distinct styles and sounds. The term 'supergroup' always appeals to the imagination. Experienced members from different bands join forces around a joint project. Its added value varies...
Colin James (born Colin James Munn, August 17, 1964) is a Canadian rock and blues singer and songwriter. "I'm opening doors for you, walk through them." (Stevie Ray Vaughan). From the prairies of Saskatchewan to sharing the stage with arguably the greatest and most influential guitarists of all time, Colin James still remembers those words of...
Take a big bucket of unpolished Mississippi juke joint boogie and blend it with another bucket of laid back down home blues. Add a teacup of swamp pop, a tablespoon of hillbilly and a pound of profane, ecstatic gospel and you´ll have the Kokomo Kings. This ain´t nothing but primitive, groovy Saturday-night music made for dancing. The band is a...
Since his earliest infatuations with guitar, Buffalo Nichols has asked himself the same question : How can I bring the blues of the past into the future ? After cutting his teeth between a Baptist church and bars in Milwaukee, it was a globetrotting trip through West Africa and Europe during a creative down period that began to reveal the...
The Cold Stares are an American rock band from Evansville, Indiana, formed in 2009. The duo, originally from Madisonville in Western Kentucky, is guitarist-singer Chris Tapp and drummer Brian Mullins, who have a friendship that dates to their early twenties when they were in bands together. They went their separate ways then to only circle back a...