Jake Benjamin Releases Velvety “Hemingway”

“Hemingway” is at once tantalizing and alluring.

Album Review: Norah Jones’s latest album is most powerful in its sonic palette

Norah Jones has been releasing albums pretty consistently since 2002, but besides the rollicking Little Broken Hearts in 2012, her overwhelming early work on Feels Like Home and Come Away With Me still hits the hardest. I hadn’t sat down…

Album Review: Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi – “There is No Other”

Rhiannon Giddens is a folk singer in the truest sense of the world: she spins yarns to music about ordinary American folk, tracing a lineage of suffering for her people that stretches right back to when they were slaves forcibly…

Album Review: Laurel Halo – “Raw Silk Uncut Wood”

On her new mini album for French indie label Latency, American producer Laurel Halo has altered her sound once again, from the blissful and euphoric moments from her 2017 record, Dust, to sounds that are minimalistic and give room for…

This is Pop? Podcast Episode 12: Steely Dan

On Sept 3, 2017, the music world mourned the loss of Steely Dan co-founder Walter Becker, who had died that morning at his home in Maui, Hawaii. Steely Dan were one of the greatest bands of 1970s, issuing a string…

Music News: Meghan Trainor Releases New Single, “Lips Are Movin”

Photo Credit: Epic Records Meghan Trainor continues to be “All About that Bass” as she releases her second single, “Lips Are Movin.” She released this track on Tuesday, October 14, and it looks like her fans are gravitating towards this…

Jay-Z Teams Up with Baz Lurhmann on “The Great Gatsby” Movie Soundtrack

On March 14th, 2013, Warner Bros. Pictures announced that Shaun “JAY Z” Carter will be collaborating with the writer, producer and director of “ The Great Gatsby,” Baz Luhrmann.  The well-known book by F. Scott Fitzgerald will once again be…