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21 hours ago | 
passionweiss.com | Reed Jackson
Image via Josh RenautShow your love of the game by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon so that we can keep churning out interviews with legendary producers, feature the best emerging rap talent in the game, and gift you the only worthwhile playlists left in this streaming hellscape. Joy Orbison has always been a bit of a reluctant king when it comes to crafting dance floor bangers.
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1 day ago | 
spectrumculture.com | Reed Jackson
Pepper’s Pow Wow may be Jim Pepper’s first album under his own name, and it has his most enduring (by far) song “Witchi Tai To” on the track list, but the record is neither his first nor the initial recording of this song.
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2 days ago | 
yahoo.com | Reed Jackson
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key TakeawaysSam Beste has played with Amy Winehouse, Beth Orton, and MF Doom, but as the Vernon Spring, the British pianist-composer-producer takes a more experimental route.
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2 days ago | 
spin.com | Reed Jackson
Sam Beste has played with Amy Winehouse, Beth Orton, and MF Doom, but as the Vernon Spring, the British pianist-composer-producer takes a more experimental route. On his second album, Under a Familiar Sun, Beste layers, loops, and strings together field recordings, vocal samples, spoken word, and spare piano melodies, forming an allusive/elusive collage.
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1 week ago | 
spectrumculture.com | Reed Jackson
For something that has always formed a core element of the human experience, memory can be extremely hard to pin down. The old cliché has it that memories are stories we tell ourselves, but that ignores the fact that stories are made of words, which are either spoken or written. Memories are neither, and if they do make up a narrative, then they do so by other means – via mental images, internal monologues, scraps of smells, textures and sounds that have been transformed into figments.
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2 weeks ago | 
spectrumculture.com | Reed Jackson
Is an epidemic of loneliness afflicting American male guitar instrumentalists? Daniel Bachman’s last few albums have been industrial paeans to environmental collapse; Nathan Salsburg’s Landwerk series is so past-haunted and desolate that he resorted to covering Lungfish with Bonnie “Prince” Billy in order to shake off the demons; Rob Noyes and Joseph Allred called their recent duo album Avoidance Language.
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2 weeks ago | 
spectrumculture.com | Reed Jackson
Like certain cultures have names for different kinds of wind, perhaps the varied styles of guitarist Mick Turner should each have their own designation. His playing can be hot and humid, like the sirocco that carries sand from African deserts into Italy. It can be brisk and cold, like the storm-causing mistral in Southern France.
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3 weeks ago | 
spin.com | Reed Jackson
TAKAAT began (and still operate) as the rhythm section to Mdou Moctar, the breakout Nigerien rock band named for its charismatic frontman. This puts Ahmoudou Madassane (guitar/vocals), bassist Mikey Coltun (the sole American in the group), and drummer Souleymane Ibrahim in the same realm as Calexico. That indie band started out as part of alt-country weirdos Giant Sand, but TAKAAT aren’t seeking to branch out from or expand the sound of their parent outfit.
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Reed Jackson
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key TakeawaysTAKAAT began (and still operate) as the rhythm section to Mdou Moctar, the breakout Nigerien rock band named for its charismatic frontman. This puts Ahmoudou Madassane (guitar/vocals), bassist Mikey Coltun (the sole American in the group), and drummer Souleymane Ibrahim in the same realm as Calexico.
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1 month ago | 
spectrumculture.com | Reed Jackson
The Truman, Kansas City, MO4/9/2025LA LOM’s origin story as a hotel lobby band forms an integral part of their identity. The power trio of Zac Sokolow (guitar), Jake Faulkner (bass) and Nicholas Baker (drums) came together not as a traditional rock band or jazz combo, but as a band that had to provide music for a space.
