Margaret Glaspy – Killing What Keeps Us Alive

On Margaret Glaspy’s long-awaited second album, Devotion, this highly acclaimed young artist reaffirms her status as one of the most sharp-eyed singer-songwriters of her generation while managing to fearlessly reinvent her sound. The results are as exhilarating and defy expectations. Coming home after nearly three years on the road in support of her 2016 debut album Emotions …

Justin Fancy – Long Time Comin’

Justin Fancy resides gleefully in the small town of Conception Bay South, Newfoundland, a place which locals call “Newf Nashville.” https://www.facebook.com/justinfancymusic http://justinfancymusic.ca/ View this post on Instagram Little Q & A with childhood friends @sampico and @justinfancy talking about the inspiration for the song #thinkaboutyou 🎵we are having so much fun filming the music video!! …

Yael Naim – Shine

For the video, the renowned performance artist and acrobat Yoann Bourgeois choreographed Naim to move on a BOSU ball. The result is a striking, almost balletic performance in which Naim appears to defy gravity as she contorts her body. Director of photography Martim Vian (Moses Sumney’s “Worth It”) employs shadows and sporadic lighting to magnify the artist’s haunting movements. The …

Mark Vickness – Grey Skye

Behold the latest from modern fingerstyle guitarist Mark Vickness. He’s known for his virtuosic solo output as well as being as the instrumental half of acclaimed acoustic fusion duo Glass House. In anticipation of his new solo album, Interconnected, Vickness is releasing a paired down, black & white video for the song “Grey Skye.” The …

12xPretty is flush with dark and surreal electro-pop which borders on the phantasmagorical

Behold the eponymous new release from Alt-pop duo 12xPretty. It’s an album flush with dark and surreal electro-pop which borders on the phantasmagorical. And here’s the video for the single, “Miserable Machines.” View this post on Instagram Art: Should it comfort or confront?⠀ Image by @aaronaubrey —⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ …

Carmanah – As I See You

View this post on Instagram Temporary avalanche road block today = time to park and admire a sweet Kootenay view😍 Back on track for Cranbrook/Winter Ale Series tonight! Thanks Rossland for a really fun evening last night 😘✌🏽 A post shared by CARMANAH (@carmanahband) on Feb 19, 2020 at 2:20pm PST Tweets by carmanahband

Låpsley – Speaking of the End

Monday, March 16th – In advance of the release of her highly-anticipated second album Through Water on Friday, Låpsley today reveals a brand new song from the record. “Speaking of the End” is a ballad that gets to the heart of Through Water’s duality, reflecting on relationships of the past with a firm eye on the future. It’s another beautiful cut …

Satin Nickel Release New Single – Free

Americana/folk band, Satin Nickel, has released the new single, “Free,” and is currently putting the finishing touches on a live video to be released in late March. “Free” is the latest offering from the upcoming album, Shadow of Doubt, out April 10th. Satin Nickel’s Samanta Aneson (vocals, guitar, banjo) wrote the song after moving from California to …

La Moxie – If I fall

This song and video are fantastic! La Moxie is a band which hears the drumbeat of everyday comedy and dances to it like everyone is watching. And we should be watching, because they’re really cool, especially the singer, the horny drummer and the guy who does the side eye. The other (ultimate rock) dude is …

Given the sensible break in the current action necessitated by our viral crisis, those so-inclined may wish to revisit The Pro Basketball Past, which was somehow more scintillating AND more human-scale, at the same time! by Tom Kipp

Having recently re-read two of my favorite books–FOUL! THE CONNIE HAWKINS STORY (David Wolf, 1972) and LOOSE BALLS: THE SHORT, WILD LIFE OF THE AMERICAN BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION (Terry Pluto, 1990)–I was especially struck today to encounter this photo of five of the ABA’s greatest stars (from the left: Connie Hawkins, Marvin Barnes, Julius “Dr. J” …

Universal Education Empowers Democratic Societies to Succeed, by Mark Erickson

As we know, the Democratic Presidential Candidate, Andrew Yang, whom I supported from his campaign’s infancy, unfortunately had to bow out of the process several weeks ago. $$ F**k Citizen’s United. https://basicincome.org/news/2020/02/united-states-andrew-yang-steps-down-from-presidential-candidacy/ Here is a great article to educate yourself about a Universal Basic Income. https://basicincome.org/news/2020/01/three-misconceptions-about-yangs-freedom-dividend/ UBI allows freedom, and that economic concept found in …

Reykjavík Iceland emotional post-rock collective VAR has a new song, Moments

Reykjavík Iceland emotional post-rock collective VAR has signed with Spartan Records (Fallow Land, Giants Chair) and will release a new album titled ‘The Never-Ending Year’ on April 24. VAR is debuting the first single titled “Moments” and you can hear it above Bassist Egill Björgvinsson says, “Moments” was written shortly before our tour to Japan in December 2017 and …

Mal Élevé – Résistance Mondiale

This is the title track for an album set to release on 3/20/20. https://www.mal-eleve.com/ And here’s the Instagram teaser for his next song and video, “Barrer.” View this post on Instagram Checkt meinen neuen Song "Barrer" (Link in Bio)🙌 "Ich breche in die Freiheit auf und gehe meinen Weg". In diesem Sinne: Lasst euch nicht …