NOLEN SELLWOOD, Otherwise
When an extraordinary, deeply soulful and dynamically versatile young talent like Minnesota based singer/songwriter Nolen Sellwood burst...
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Jonathan Widran
- Dec 27, 2022
PAUL WEST, Eight Palms Ranch
Emerging singer-songwriter Paul West’s earthy, down home storytelling skills, sometimes raucous, often heartfelt vocal delivery and...
Jonathan Widran
- Dec 1, 2022
KIRSTEN LAMBERT, From A Window To A Screen
Though From a Window to a Screen is billed as the debut album by the exquisite and sensual North Carolina based vocalist Kirsten Lambert,...
Jonathan Widran
- Nov 23, 2022
THE PRZMATICS, Still Alive
Wow, talk about some unexpected, heavy duty musical shape-shifting! In 2017, the Chicago based band The Przmatics set the indie rock...
Jonathan Widran
- Nov 16, 2022
CHRISTMAS WITH CHRIS RUGGIERO
With the release of Christmas with Chris Ruggiero, the dynamic, soulfully and gracefully performed and gorgeously arranged debut holiday...
Jonathan Widran
- Nov 16, 2022
LOREN DANIELS, Ticket To Ride
Not since the recently departed Ramsey Lewis has a pianist and keyboardist so impactfully, artfully and imaginatively captured the jazzy...
Jonathan Widran
- Nov 12, 2022
NOAH HOFFELD, Mobile Home
In the sparse but on point promo materials for classically trained Julliard grad turned synth pop rocker Noah Hoffeld’s endlessly...
Jonathan Widran
- Nov 12, 2022
CHARLEY CARROZO, Blinded Times
After these hellish, anxiety filled past three years, hell yeah, it makes perfect sense that “Namaste” is the highlighted, most promoted...
Jonathan Widran
- Nov 12, 2022
JOURNOS, In the Key of WTF!
In the mid-70s, Stevie Wonder graced us with an epic album titled Songs in the Key of Life. But as fraught as those times may have seemed...
Jonathan Widran
- Oct 11, 2022
DAPHNE PARKER POWELL, The Starter Wife
On her sixth album, but very importantly, her first as Daphne Parker Powell after a decade dba Daphne Lee Martin, the intensely...
Jonathan Widran
- Oct 1, 2022
DIVER THROUGH, All Nighter
When’s the last time you pulled an All Nighter? While the term often brings out a sometimes painful, struggling connotion – like fighting...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 27, 2022
ART OF TIME ENSEMBLE, Songs of Leonard Cohen Live
In 2018, Toronto’s famed Art of Time Ensemble musical collective – under the musical direction of founder, pianist and album producer...
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