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    SAN GABRIEL 7, Under The Stars
    Jonathan Widran
    • 4 days ago

    SAN GABRIEL 7, Under The Stars

    Formed by trombonist and JPL spacecraft engineer Jim Lewis in the 2000s, the multi-faceted, high energy horn fired funk and jazz ensemble...
    OPAL CANYON, Tomorrow to the Sea
    Jonathan Widran
    • Apr 7

    OPAL CANYON, Tomorrow to the Sea

    Perhaps it’s a petty point in this streaming age when album art is often experienced as tiny thumbnail images, but the psychedelic...
    CRASH TAYLOR, Retired Outlaw
    Jonathan Widran
    • Apr 5

    CRASH TAYLOR, Retired Outlaw

    As we listen with rapt attention to the insanely cool phrasing and storytelling couched in the soulful, blues-tinged folk/rock energies...
    JO HARROP, The Heart Wants
    Jonathan Widran
    • Mar 24

    JO HARROP, The Heart Wants

    Once a session singer for the likes of Neil Diamond, Rod Stewart and Gloria Gaynor, Jo Harrop’s dusky, gorgeously sensual voice found its...
    JAMES GAITERS SOUL REVIVAL, Understanding Reimagined
    Jonathan Widran
    • Feb 18

    JAMES GAITERS SOUL REVIVAL, Understanding Reimagined

    Truly the crowning masterwork in a stylistically expansive, multi-genre career as a sideman and recording artist, James Gaiters Soul...
    DEAN FRIEDMAN, American Lullaby
    Jonathan Widran
    • Jan 11

    DEAN FRIEDMAN, American Lullaby

    If your skepticism about fake news has prompted you to shut down your senses and not pay attention to the sociopolitical issues of the...
    FRANK VIELE, Time Is a Thief
    Jonathan Widran
    • Jan 10

    FRANK VIELE, Time Is a Thief

    There are three unique ways to look at Frank Viele’s first ever EP Time is a Thief. Most simplistically, it’s a simple gathering of the...
    GREG BUCKING, Greg Bucking
    Jonathan Widran
    • Jan 10

    GREG BUCKING, Greg Bucking

    In this digital era where indie artists seek inclusion on playlists and a handful of tracks on an EP, for both budgetary and practical...
    ALBERTA and THE DEAD EYES, You Said Something
    Jonathan Widran
    • Nov 3, 2021

    ALBERTA and THE DEAD EYES, You Said Something

    Usually when a review attempts to sum up the kind of coolness, otherworldliness and raw, jamming but slyly languid garage-rock cool we...
    JEREMY MONTEIRO & ALBERTO MARSICO, Jazz-Blues Brothers
    Jonathan Widran
    • Nov 1, 2021

    JEREMY MONTEIRO & ALBERTO MARSICO, Jazz-Blues Brothers

    Such is the timelessness, sensuality, burning swing-ability and vast energy exchange of Jazz-Blues Brothers, the perfectly titled, hard...
    UNPINNABLE BUTTERFLIES, Radio Ocean
    Jonathan Widran
    • Sep 26, 2021

    UNPINNABLE BUTTERFLIES, Radio Ocean

    Paul Simon announced his retirement from touring in 2018 and his last set of original material was five years ago. Should he decide,...
    JON PATRICK WALKER, The Rented Tuxedo & Other Songs
    Jonathan Widran
    • Sep 20, 2021

    JON PATRICK WALKER, The Rented Tuxedo & Other Songs

    So if you’re a fan of musicals and their touring companies and want to know how the casts spend their down time on tour busses, look no...
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