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 [...]
Curtis Salgado - Fine By Me Curtis Salgado’s album Fine By Me reflects the soul of American music Rest assured whatever songs Curtis Salgado brings to the table are going to have his personal soul stamp on them. It’s the singer’s magic bullet, the key element that [...]
Silent Partners - Changing Times As natural as a steady pulse, Silent Partners make their debut on the Little Village label with Changing Times, a 10-song collection of blues that never misses a beat. Members Tony Coleman (drums and vocals), Russell Jackson (bass) and Jonathan Ellison (guitar [...]
Phantom Blues Band - Blues for Breakfast For all his considerable musical talents Taj Mahal has always been shrewd. And smart. In the early 1990s he knew he’d assembled something special in his backing band. He dubbed his secret weapon the Phantom Blues Band. After helping Taj [...]