Category: Music

Animated McBess is pretty damn great.

This is worth $3 for the cover alone. The sounds are a 5-star bonus. Like always, Steady Sounds has the hookup. Released in 1959 (which is the same year Hawai’i became a state), this is Les and Mary being great with their take on luau music. It’s a very chill listen. You can hear it …

I’ve seen Branford once and Wynton a couple of times, but this was my first time seeing The Patriarch, Ellis Marsalis, perform live. The show was great. Jae Sinnet was technically the bandleader, it’s his trio, but he was appropriately deferential to Ellis. The Tin Pan is an odd little venue tucked at the end …

I am a huge fan of Kacey Musgraves’ latest album, “Golden Hour”. I blabbed about it pretty good on the podcast, and I finally got to see her in concert this weekend. The show was great. Her voice was ON, and the light show was a lot more than I was expecting. I don’t love …

It’s all part of the 25th anniversary of “I Should Coco”. That’s an impressive box set, but likely out of my price range.

Maintaning MAXIMUM LIZZO CONTENT, this is a fun-as-hell watch. Lizzo remains great.

She’s so fun and funny. If you haven’t given this record a spin, please do. The flute breakdown at 13:45 is a true highlight.

It’s the shoegaziest! No idea when the album’s coming, but if it sounds like this I’ll be excited for it.

Longtime fan of Holly Golightly and her latest album, “Do the Get Along”, is more of the good stuff she’s known for. If you’re unfamiliar with her work this album is a good introduction. The song I’d recommend is “Satan Is His Name”: It’s a smoldering slow jam that makes it clear that, with 20+ …

Omni is an Atlanta-based rock band that makes music reminiscent of The Feelies/Devo/The Clean. Low-Fi(ish) with off-kilter rhythms and ringing guitars. These are some of my favorite things. “Equestrian” will give you a good idea of what I’m talking about: I passed on seeing them when they came through RVA a few months back and …