It all started last Friday afternoon. I was cranking out some new tunes when my wife rushed in and, instead of the usual: “turn that bloody racket down!”, said: “this is so cool, who is this?” The answer was the Delta Riggs and the song I was listening to was their new single Never Seen This Before. This song thumps with a funky old school groove, but the Riggs were playing … [Read more...]
Fire On The Floor – Beth Hart
The road to success hasn't been easy for Beth Hart. It was her second album Screamin' For My Supper, and particularly the single LA Song (Out Of This Town) that saw Beth score her first hit and subsequent inclusion on the soundtracks to a number of prime time television shows. At that time she was in her late 20's and after a long history of substantial drug use since her teens … [Read more...]
All I Can See – Amarillo
Sometimes you don’t need much to capture a very large space. All I Can See manages to do that with a lilting, almost haunting feel and an introduction not that far removed from Paul Simon’s Sounds of Silence. In this case that void of endless silence was Australia’s outback and it became the inspiration for the song when Melbourne band Amarillo toured throughout the remote … [Read more...]
Low Lays The Devil – The Veils
If you love the Black Keys as I do chances are you're going to dig this. Low Lays The Devil comes wrapped in a vamped organ, slightly distorted guitar and thumping beats - all of which sound like they've been poured through a fuzzed out filter with a muddied production that puts this track somewhere between the Mississippi delta and the devil down below. Singer/songwriter Finn … [Read more...]
Cleopatra – The Lumineers
I like these guys. I really do. There’s a simplicity in their music that is somewhat deceptive, because while they write these contagiously likeable melodies there is much greater depth in the honesty of their lyrics. For that reason the Lumineers owe more to folk as a genre than rock n roll. The back story on this band began with two guys – Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah … [Read more...]