All We Are - L Is For Lose (Official Video)

un poco de disco funk a lo Prince. Vuelta a los 80s

Foxwarren- Foxwarren

MINDIES

jack klatt - It Ain't The Same

Musical missionary, tireless troubadour and producer Jack Klatt isn’t one to be easily categorized or relegated to a narrow niche. He is a man with a wizened and worldly perspective, and a timeless sensibility of both place and purpose. His upcoming album It Ain’t The Same reflects a reverential attitude, but adds a depth and devotion that ensures its contemporary credence. With Klatt himself singing, playing guitar and sitting in the producer’s chair, it boasts the talents of session players John James Tourville (The Deslondes) on electric guitar and pedal steel, Casey McDonough (NRBQ) on bass, Alex Hall (JD McPherson, The Cactus Blossoms, Robbie Fulks) on drums, percussion, keys and engineering and Page Burkum’s harmonies. It Ain’t The Same is, as its title suggests, something truly special.

POPMATTERS

NEAL FRANCIS CHANGES

https://www.nealfrancis.com

Fontaines D.C.- Dogrel

http://fontainesband.com/

ALLMUSIC

Estupendo disco que podremos escuchar en directo en noviembre en barcelona.

The Waterboys - Where The Action Is

https://www.metacritic.com/music/where-the-action-is/the-waterboys

LOS COAST - SAMSARA

https://www.loscoast.com/

On their eagerly awaited debut album Samsara, the visionary Austin, TX combo Los Coast delivers a fresh blast of punchy psychedelic-pop-soul that effortlessly incorporates a wide range of genres. The band's seamlessly soulful songcraft incorporates the band's distinctive grooves along with the inventive compositions and commanding vocals of principal members Trey Privott (lead vocals, guitar) and John Courtney (guitar, keyboards, vocals).

Even before Samsara had been recorded, Los Coast had already earned a reputation as one of Austin’s most exciting and inventive young bands. With its lineup rounded out by Megan Hartman on bass, Damien Llanes on drums and Natalie Wright on keys, plus a varied assortment of guest players, Los Coast was already renowned for its rousing, expansive live sets.

That same mix of energy and expertise is reflected on Samsara, which features such memorable, no-nonsense tunes as "Simplify," "Monsters," "Graves" and the frantic, tongue-twisting "(Everything But) The Kitchen Sink." The album delivers infectious hooks, ironic lyrical twists and explosive funk grooves in equal measure, providing an irresistible frame for Privott's soulful vocals and the band's explosive grooves.

"We love pop music, but we also love to experiment," says Courtney. "We try to avoid letting the listener know what's coming, and we like playing with people's expectations and catching the listener off guard.  It becomes stale if it's too familiar, so we like to come up with music that's familiar and surprising at the same time."

"We're lucky to be able to explore these different sounds and different attitudes, and do a little dabbling," adds Privott. "We started with a blank canOn their eagerly awaited debut album Samsara, the visionary Austin, TX combo Los Coast delivers a fresh blast of punchy psychedelic-pop-soul that effortlessly incorporates a wide range of genres. The band's seamlessly soulful songcraft incorporates the band's distinctive grooves along with the inventive compositions and commanding vocals of principal members Trey Privott (lead vocals, guitar) and John Courtney (guitar, keyboards, vocals). Even befoe Samsara had been recorded, Los Coast had already earned a reputation as one of Austin’s most exciting and inventive young bands. With its lineup rounded out by Megan Hartman on bass, Damien Llanes on drums and Natalie Wright on keys, plus a varied assortment of guest players, Los Coast was already renowned for its rousing, expansive live sets. That same mix of energy and expertise is reflected on Samsara, which features such memorable, no-nonsense tunes as "Simplify," "Monsters," "Graves" and the frantic, tongue-twisting "(Everything But) The Kitchen Sink." The album delivers infectious hooks, ironic lyrical twists and explosive funk grooves in equal measure, providing an irresistible frame for Privott's soulful vocals and the band's explosive grooves. "We love pop music, but we also love to experiment," says Courtney. "We try to avoid letting the listener know what's coming, and we like playing with people's expectations and catching the listener off guard. It becomes stale if it's too familiar, so we like to come up with music that's familiar and surprising at the same time." "We're lucky to be able to explore these different sounds and different attitudes, and do a little dabbling," adds Privott. "We started with a blank canvas, and we built a diverse color palette around the album that we wanted to create. It felt like everything was fair game, from psychedelic funk to the blues to acoustic singer-songwriter pop." "I think this album captures a moment in time for the band, and a moment of time in Austin too, with certain things that were in the air at the time, and certain tides turning," Courtney offers. Georgia-born Privott's first love was jazz—thanks to the influence of his uncle, noted guitarist and former Late Night with David Letterman band member Hiram Bullock—but his musical consciousness soon came to embrace gospel and soul, thanks to his family's Southern Baptist faith, as well as punk rock, folk and hip-hop. He began picking up various instruments in his early teens, and began experimenting with recording soon after. Although Texas native Courtney focuses on lead guitar with Los Coast, he's a versatile multi-instrumentalist whose sensibility was influenced by his extensive studies at the prestigious Berkley College of Music. "I see us as a rock and roll band with a lot of soul influences, like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding," Privott states. "Otis was from Georgia, Little Richard, too, and that music is in my blood. What I think makes Los Coast stand out is that we’re psychedelic. As a guitar player, John Courtney is into guys like Jerry Garcia and he’s also jazz-trained. His playing defines the band just as much as my voice does." Trey and John hooked up in Austin in 2015, and quickly won an audience in their adopted hometown, thanks to a long-running weekly residency at the Austin club C-Boy's. "We had wanted to use the residency as a chance to get comfortable onstage, and to really learn to play as a group," Trey explains. "But more and more people started showing up, which we hadn't expected at all." A high-profile gig at 2016's Austin City Limits festival helped to spread the band's reputation beyond its hometown, as did some out-of-town touring that helped to build demand for Los Coast's long-simmering debut album, elevating the group to official buzz-band status. The band's memorable first indie single, "Summer Samaritan," gave way to the indelible gospel-funk of its followup "Simplify," which now serves as a key track on Samsara. "We reworked the album multiple times because we wanted to get it right," Courtney admits. "We were being a little perfectionist, but we finally got to the point where we felt good about it. It was a long process, but it was time well spent." "We built the sessions from the ground up," adds Privott. "It was kind of a non-traditional way to make an album, to work on it for so long. We went moment by moment, instrument by instrument, and we used everything we had to work with. That seemed to work for us. Now we're looking forward to sharing it with the world."vas, and we built a diverse color palette around the album that we wanted to create. It felt like everything was fair game, from psychedelic funk to the blues to acoustic singer-songwriter pop."

"I think this album captures a moment in time for the band, and a moment of time in Austin too, with certain things that were in the air at the time, and certain tides turning," Courtney offers.

Georgia-born Privott's first love was jazz—thanks to the influence of his uncle, noted guitarist and former Late Night with David Letterman band member Hiram Bullock—but his musical consciousness soon came to embrace gospel and soul, thanks to his family's Southern Baptist faith, as well as punk rock, folk and hip-hop. He began picking up various instruments in his early teens, and began experimenting with recording soon after. Although Texas native Courtney focuses on lead guitar with Los Coast, he's a versatile multi-instrumentalist whose sensibility was influenced by his extensive studies at the prestigious Berkley College of Music.

"I see us as a rock and roll band with a lot of soul influences, like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding," Privott states. "Otis was from Georgia, Little Richard, too, and that music is in my blood. What I think makes Los Coast stand out is that we’re psychedelic. As a guitar player, John Courtney is into guys like Jerry Garcia and he’s also jazz-trained. His playing defines the band just as much as my voice does."

Trey and John hooked up in Austin in 2015, and quickly won an audience in their adopted hometown, thanks to a long-running weekly residency at the Austin club C-Boy's. "We had wanted to use the residency as a chance to get comfortable onstage, and to really learn to play as a group," Trey explains. "But more and more people started showing up, which we hadn't expected at all."

A high-profile gig at 2016's Austin City Limits festival helped to spread the band's reputation beyond its hometown, as did some out-of-town touring that helped to build demand for Los Coast's long-simmering debut album, elevating the group to official buzz-band status. The band's memorable first indie single, "Summer Samaritan," gave way to the indelible gospel-funk of its followup "Simplify," which now serves as a key track on Samsara.

"We reworked the album multiple times because we wanted to get it right," Courtney admits. "We were being a little perfectionist, but we finally got to the point where we felt good about it. It was a long process, but it was time well spent."

"We built the sessions from the ground up," adds Privott. "It was kind of a non-traditional way to make an album, to work on it for so long.  We went moment by moment, instrument by instrument, and we used everything we had to work with. That seemed to work for us. Now we're looking forward to sharing it with the world."

Neal Francis

https://www.nealfrancis.com/

“I just wanted to be honest about everything, from my musical influences to my story,” muses Neal Francis. After years of dishonest living—consumed by drugs, alcohol, and addiction—such sincerity is jarring from the 30-year-old Chicago-based musician. Liberated from a self-destructive past and born anew in sobriety, Francis has captured an inspired collection of songs steeped in New Orleans rhythms and Chicago blues. His music evokes a bygone era of R&B’s heyday while simultaneously forging a new path on the musical landscape. Ohio-based Karma Chief Records (a subsidiary of rising soul label Colemine Records) will release two songs, “These Are The Days” and “Changes, Pt. 1,” in early 2019 with the full LP to follow in Fall 2019.

There is a deep connection between Francis’s childhood—his obsession with boogie woogie piano, his father’s gift of a dusty Dr. John LP—and the songs he’s created. The result is an astonishing collection of material without parallel in the contemporary funk and soul scene. The influences are unmistakable: the vocal stylings of Allen Toussaint and Leon Russell; the second line rhythms of The Meters and Dr. John; the barroom rock ‘n’ roll of The Rolling Stones; the gospel soul of Billy Preston; the roots music of The Band. Francis pays tribute to the masters but has his own story to tell: “It’s the life I’ve lived so far.”

And what a life it’s been. Born Neal Francis O’Hara, the piano prodigy found himself touring Europe by the age of 18 with Muddy Waters’ son and backing up other prominent blues artists coast-to-coast. In 2012, Francis joined popular instrumental funk band The Heard. With Francis at the creative helm, The Heard transformed into a national act, touring with boogaloo progenitors The New Mastersounds and chart toppers The Revivalists and appearing at Jazz Fest and Bear Creek. As The Heard’s star rose, however, Francis sunk deeper into addiction. Once a promising sideman, by 2015 he had been fired from his band, evicted from his apartment, and was perilously close to self-destruction. “When you get close to death like that you can feel it,” Francis recalls. An alcohol-induced seizure that year led to a broken femur, dislocated arm, and, finally, the realization that he needed to get clean.

The journey from a hospital bed to launching his solo career was neither predictable nor straightforward. There were musical fits and starts, relapses, and broken relationships. Yet the overwhelming passion driving Francis in this second act has been an overabundance of creative energy. “Drinking held my music in a half-cocked slingshot. I was always so consumed by drugs and alcohol that I didn’t have the time, money, or creative energy to do it. Sobriety let it loose.”

Determined to realize the songs swirling in his head, Francis assembled a crack team of musicians, calling on bassist Mike Starr (The Heard) and drummer PJ Howard (The Revivalists, The Heard). He linked up with producer and analog-obsessive Sergio Rios (Orgone, Cee Lo Green, Alicia Keys) and self-funded a trip to Killion Sound in Los Angeles to record the initial batch of material. “I learned to trust my instincts in that room,” says Francis. Buoyed by classic horn arrangements and Rios’ fierce guitar work, the resulting tracks illuminate a lifetime spent studying the masters of soul music.

From the RMI electra-piano riff that kicks off “She’s A Winner” to the screaming organ swells of “This Time,” Francis and company let it all hang out. This is fun music, dance music. Yet verse after verse and chorus after chorus, Francis wrestles with his past in a straightforward manner: “It’s 5 o’clock in the morning, but I’m not home/ I’m surrounded by people, but I’m really alone.” Like Toussaint and Russell before him he’s married the upbeat rhythms of New Orleans R&B with the lyrical approach of a confessional singer/songwriter. The refrain on “This Time” serves as a foxhole prayer for a better future:  “Let me get it this time/I won’t let you down/Let me get it this time/I won’t fool around.”

2018 was a busy year. In February Francis finished recording basic tracks for the yet-to-be named debut album in Los Angeles and spent the following months doing overdubs in Chicago with engineer Mike Novak (who also recorded demos for the project). After playing his first show in November, Francis was signed by Paradigm Talent Agency. 2019 brought a North American tour supporting The Cat Empire as well as radio play on KEXP, KCRW, and BBC Radio 6. Francis continues to tour relentlessly to promote his own music. “I’m doing this to fulfill a drive within myself, but also to pay tribute to the gifts I’ve been given. And it comes from a place of immense gratitude. I’ve been given so much in my life, especially in the last two years, that this feels like a bonus.”

Bailen Thrilled To Be Her

INDINAUTA

ALLMUSIC

White Denim – Side Effects

POPMATTERS

DODMAGAZINE

Peter Perrett - I Want Your Dreams

Junto a la familia (colaboran sus dos hijos) adelanto de su nuevo trabajo Humanworld.

Dawn Brothers & Friends ft Coal Harbour - Let's Be There Together

Nadie diría que vienen de Holanda. (de donde es otro artista que recomiendo Tim Knol)


The song: “Let’s Be There Together.”
The album: From the highly anticipated Next of Kin, available April 13.
About the group: Netherlands-born musicians Bas van Holt, Levi Vis, Rowan de Vos, and Rafael Schwiddessen turned the Americana genre on its side with their debut album, Stayin’ Out Late, and gained international fans throughout the Netherlands, Germany, Hungary, and France.
About the track: “’Let’s Be There Together’ is a classic Dawn Brothers tune about slight misdemeanor. With catchy lyrics and easy on the ears tunes, it’s a song worth investing in.
About the video: Shot home-video style with a “good old Hi-8 handycam,” it follows the four bandmates in their everyday lives. The montage captures “the best times out on the road with our friends.”
From singer Levi Vis: “Friendship is key in this song. We recorded the song live with fourteen musicians. We tried to capture the same vibe in the video.”
Why we like it: The song has that soul-nourishing, groove-laying, making-music-with-friends vibe. Recorded live with band friends Stefan Wolfs, David Gram, and Merel Sophie, together with the Coal Harbour string and horn section, the tune praises camaraderie, and the video lets us have an inside look at the special friendship and bond that the Dawn Brothers have.

Stone Foundation - I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down (with Graham Parker)

Una gozada esta nueva versión de esta canción I'm gonna tear your playhouse down.
De su nuevo EP.

Drugdealer - Fools

Con cierto sonido retro de los primeros 70 (Steely Dan?). Funk/pop sofisticado. Para escapar de tanto folk.Esperamos el LP

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El artista Michael Collins, con sede en Los Angeles, anunció su nuevo álbum bajo el nombre de Drugdealer ; Se llama Raw Honey y sale a través de Mexican Summer el 19 de abril. Al igual que su álbum anterior, Raw Honey cuenta con varios colaboradores notables, entre ellos la ingeniería de Mac Demarco, las voces invitadas de Weyes Blood, Dougie Poole y Harley Hill-Richmond, sin mencionar su excelente banda.

La primera canción que se comparte de Raw Honey es 'Fools', una canción que suena como si simplemente saliera flotando directamente de una estación de radio de rock suave de los 70 en un colchón de humo de marihuana. Aunque el título 'Fools' podría sugerir frustración o molestia, la canción es en realidad una cura para todas tus tensiones; navega a un ritmo alegre, con un juego discreto pero excelente, antes de abrirse camino en un coro de bandas y vocal irresistible. Piensas que ese podría ser el punto más alto, pero alejándote del coro, Drugdealer y su banda ofrecen deliciosos solos de saxo, guitarras y voces más geniales que suenan como si la banda se pusiera y te rodeara el hombro y exudara una cálida pelusa en tu alma .

Foxygen - Livin' a Lie

Presentación del nuevo disco. Parece que por derroteros más terrenales y con mensajes vitalistas cansados de las fanfarrias y sustancias para evadirse.

http://www.foxygentheband.com/

Josh Ritter - Old Black Magic

Adelanto del nuevo disco. Prometedor-

Better Oblivion Community Center

Debut de  pareja Conor Oberst y Phoebe Bridgers. Contundente como se puede apreciar en el video y variado por la combinación de las dos voces.

BETTER OBL

IVION COMMUNITY CENTER

MONKS ROAD SOCIAL

Dr. Robert, Mick Talbot, Crispin Taylor, Ernie McKone, Matt Deighton, Steve Sidelnyk y Ben Trigg (o sea Style Council, Galiano, Oasis, Richard Ashcroft, Dexys etc..) Soul, Jazz mezclado con pop ingles. Una delicia.