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BICENTENNIAL DRUG LORD, You Are Never Alone
The glorious, much needed comfort offered by Milwaukee based psychedelic retro-rock (with a tinge of country twang) trio Bicentennial...
Jonathan Widran
Jun 20, 2025


ART SCHOP, The Fifth Hammer
Art Schop, the musical guise of singer/songwriter and philosophy and fiction writer Martin Walker, commands our attention not simply...
Jonathan Widran
Jun 20, 2025


PROFESSOR LOUIE & THE CROWMATIX, Crowin' Around
With an exhortation on their latest album to keep Crowin’ Around and “keep it going,” the raucous five-time Grammy nominated blues/rock...
Jonathan Widran
Jun 12, 2025


TOBIN MUELLER, Fragments
Listening to veteran interpretive pianist/multi-keyboardist Tobin Mueller’s revolutionary in concept, endlessly fascinating and...
Jonathan Widran
Jun 12, 2025


JOURNOS, The Burning Question
It’s kind of a given that if a hard edged, freewheeling Americana/roots rock duo like Journos launches their career with a critically...
Jonathan Widran
Jun 12, 2025


JOSHUA RAY HUDSON, The Dreams of a Working Man
Having written over 350 songs while releasing just a handful of albums, the ultra-prolific, fast emerging North Carolina based...
Jonathan Widran
Jun 12, 2025


DEEANN, "Kiss of Life"
A former pop/rocker and country singer who is currently one of Buffalo’s premiere award winning jazz and blues vocalists, DeeAnn would...
Jonathan Widran
Jun 9, 2025


JIM "KIMO" WEST & DAVID VITO GREGOLI, Travelogue
A beautiful and passionate sensory seduction and intimate showcase for the acoustic multi-string and production virtuosity of...
Jonathan Widran
Jun 6, 2025


BEN BOSTICK, Become Other
Truth be told, I’d much rather have had the opportunity to immerse in and write about any of Ben Bostick’s previous five albums over the...
Jonathan Widran
Jun 4, 2025


TODD ADELMAN, Western Soul
Before we get into the insightful, crafty, deeply lived splendors of his spirited, all at once gloomy and depressing and joyfully...
Jonathan Widran
Jun 4, 2025


SAUL DAUTCH, Music for the People
The thousands of passersby in Washington Square Park catching wind of Saul Dautch when he busked there to keep his chops up during the...
Jonathan Widran
Jun 4, 2025


Anaïs Reno, Lady of the Lavender Mist
If there’s a drawback to being an accomplished, award-winning jazz singer by one’s mid-teens like the transcendent, emotionally...
Jonathan Widran
Jun 4, 2025
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