Little Village Foundation’s label has just released “Like I Said,” a posthumous recording by the legendary Barry Goldberg who died in January after a decade-long battle with cancer. Just a few weeks before his passing, Goldberg collaborated with guitar great Johnny Lee Schell (Phantom Blues Band) on [...]
Terry Hanck - Grease to GravyListen to Terry Hanck sing and play sax and you’ll hear his personality coming through loud and clear. Grease to Gravy, his new CD release on Little Village, showcases a deep groove drenching with soul on each track.The music is varied from soul to [...]
Aki Kumar - God Bless the USA With Blues music there’s an age old conflict that quietly rages involving tradition and innovation. “That’s not Blues” vs “You’re doing the same thing over and over again” are the 2 defining mantras. Difficult to reference anybody who has ever [...]
Mariachi Mestizo XXV Anniversario The birthplace of the United Farm Workers, and his students are not only first-rate musicians, but high achievers in other ways, entering colleges like Harvard, UCLA, and Wellesley. But Mariachi Mestizo is first an extraordinary group because they make great music. Their newest [...]
All Things Swamp - Dressed With the New Orleans diaspora a fact of life on the West Coast, where the Cajun and Creole cultural invasion long ago firmly took root, California musicians often yearn to play the unique, flavorful beats of New Orleans music. All Things Swamp is [...]
Skip the Needle - Wake Up Wake Up Wake Up Skip The Needle is an Oakland-based queer female quartet made up of Bay Area superstars; Vicki Randle, Shelley Doty, Kofy Brown and Katie Cash who fashion punk, funk and soul influenced rock they like to call black dyke [...]
Kid Andersen -Spirits- & Lisa "Little Baby" Leuschner -Soul- Double Album Release We tend to attribute the unexplainable to magic and there’s a lot of magic in music. You can analyze melody, harmony and rhythm – it's all math, but there is more to music than formulas. [...]
Mighty Mike Schermer - The Legend of Michael Ray Pickens and his old Country Band The blues is a genre that notoriously demands its artists grind out lifelong careers before receiving even a small measure of success. In that respect you might think that 57-year-old songwriter and guitarist [...]