“Growing Up (For You)” reveals the intricate cross-roads of Americana that Sonja sits at — opening with the dusty rhythms of galloping drums and the driving gloam of myriad guitars. But it’s also imbued with an ethereal electronica that haunts the empty spaces between its lush instrumentation.
LOS ANGELES — Coma Girls played at the Echoplex Sunday night as part of its Grand Ole Echo series, and also as an album release celebration for No Umbrella for Star Flower. It was their first show in three years, and frontman Chris Spino’s first show since getting sober.
If Spino felt any pressure in that regard, he didn’t show it. Dressed simply in a white shirt and white hat, he marveled at being on the Echoplex stage after his years as a bartender there.
“I used to work here,” he told the audience. “And now I’m getting to play here, this is really cool.”
There are, of course, ample doses of guitar goodness throughout, most notably on a trippy cover of Jimi Hendrix’s Hey Joe, which sees Farees laying down fierce, wah-soaked rhythms before heading to the outer limits with a turbo-charged solo. And on the widescreen funk masterpiece The Melting, he’s joined by Meters guitar legend Leo Nocentelli, who joyously weaves a colorful quilt of intricate six-string textures.
Today PunkNews is thrilled to bring you the premiere of the new video from Atlanta based party-punkers Baby Baby!
With a band name like Red Rum Club, one can almost picture a supergroup of sorts with collaborations with the likes of Joe Strummer and Paul Weller. But instead, we have one of Britain’s (Liverpool to be exact) most promising post-punk acts with a dose of pop since Arctic Monkeys. READ MORE…
The Land In Between was overseen by acclaimed producer and guitarist Teddy Kumpel (Joe Jackson, Feist, Rickie Lee Jones) at Atomic Sound in Brooklyn, and together they assembled an impressive array of veteran A-list session players, including bassist Cat Popper (Jack White, Willie Nelson, Levon Helm), drummer Steve Williams (Sade, David Byrne, Keith Richards), keyboard player Todd Caldwell (Stephen Stills, James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt), fiddler Charlie Burnham (Martha Redbone), with Mark Spencer on pedal steel (Son Volt, Lisa Loeb), Michael Blake on tenor saxophone, Bruce Harris on trumpet and the late Don Heffington (Emmylou Harris, Bob Dylan, Lucinda Williams), playing drums on “I Tried to Keep on Loving You.”