If you like feel good piano pop, you’ll love Lucas Jack and Don’t Get Carried Away from his March 2013 long-player Sun City. It jams as hard as any piano track can jam and Lucas Jack has a wonderful voice. This is music to do work to, to dance to, to drive to, to do just about anything-except sleep. Sun City doesn’t rock that hard all the way through. In fact, it’s a testament to diverse styles, varying rhythms, the plaintive and…
Read MoreIn spite of the unfortunate name, which makes a Google search turn up every version of the song “Layla” known to man, “Layla”, the singer, is an extremely interesting and talented artist. She is relatively new to the music scene, but this resident of London, England, has some chops and could very easily break loose. She should at least. There is little info on Layla, but you can navigate to her web site (tumblr blog) and hit her other links from there. Then slip over…
Read MoreOne part performance art, one part insanity and two parts fun. Welcome to Louis Barabbas & The Bedlam Six! Louis Barabbas and company are an in your face alternative troupe of gypsy-esque mutants, that play a combination of gypsy tinged rock and alternative laced folk. To say that it defies categorization would be an understatement, but whatever it is musically, it is definitely fun stuff. Here on I Ain’t Done (being young) from the groups second…
Read MoreIt’s Mr. Peabody’s ‘Way Back’ machine for music. The Pepper Pots make R&B and Soul that moves and rocks in a way that was popular in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s and is still more than relevant today. Enter, Good Times from the bands 2013 released long player, We Must Fight. The Pepper Pots have been playing 60’s and 70’s flavored R&B and Soul tinged pop music in their native Spain since 2004. They’ve just recently announced that they will be…
Read MoreThough jazz makes a limited appearance on A Little More Vodka, it’s not because it doesn’t have some wonderful musical offerings. Mostly, it is because in general, lyrics help tell the story of a video, and in this case-as with most Snarky Puppy performances-the music /is/ the story. That was true a year ago, with Thing Of Gold from the groups Ground Up offering and remains so today with Family Dinner. Family Dinner – Volume 1 was released in…
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