Thanks to Sam Phillips for guest editing our website all week long. Be sure to check out Long Play, the year-long multimedia project she is currently in the middle of. Also check out this live video of “I Don’t Want To Fall In Love,” recorded with the Section Quartet in Santa Monica, Calif., last September.
It’s not as much of a journey from religious music to Jerry Lee Lewis and the Die Hard movie franchise as you might think. For someone who began her recording career as a Christian artist, Sam Phillips has had a very secular professional life. Born Leslie Ann Phillips in 1962, she cut her last album [...]
If you’ve ever wished your favorite 1960s girl group would go all garage rock on you (and really, who hasn’t?), look no further than Dum Dum Girls. The Los Angeles quartet—Dee Dee, Jules, Frankie Rose and Bambi—is set to release its debut album, I Will Be, on March 30 through Sub Pop. (The LP follows two [...]
The New Pornographers (pictured) will release their fifth album, Together (Matador), on May 4. It will feature the band’s full eight members, along with guest musicians such as Annie Clark (St. Vincent), Zach Condon (Beirut) and Will Sheff (Okkervill River) … Wanna rock with members of Kiss, Van Halen, Poison, Motörhead, Traffic and Winger? Then [...]
It’s not as much of a journey from religious music to Jerry Lee Lewis and the Die Hard movie franchise as you might think. For someone who began her recording career as a Christian artist, Sam Phillips has had a very secular professional life. Born Leslie Ann Phillips in 1962, she cut her last album [...]
British DJ/producer Ashley Beedle and musical partner Darren Morris are the men behind Mavis, a new project celebrating the music of soul icon Mavis Staples. The album is out March 2 via the !K7 label, with remixes and reinterpretations by artists including Ed Harcourt (download “Puzzles & Riddles”), Kurt Wagner, Edwyn Collins, Candi Staton, Sarah Cracknell and more. Here’s [...]
It’s not as much of a journey from religious music to Jerry Lee Lewis and the Die Hard movie franchise as you might think. For someone who began her recording career as a Christian artist, Sam Phillips has had a very secular professional life. Born Leslie Ann Phillips in 1962, she cut her last album [...]
Check out “Promises,” the first single off Big Echo, the Morning Benders‘ follow-up to 2008′s Talking Through Tin Cans (which iTunes crowned the best indie/alternative album of that year). The California quartet just signed to Rough Trade Records and will release the album, produced in 11 days by singer/guitarist Christopher Chu and Grizzly Bear’s Chris [...]
Every Saturday, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places and events from his band’s 26-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith. FADE IN: EXT. A 1975 BABY-BLUE FORD PICKUP TRUCK IS AT A STOPLIGHT AT A DESERTED INTERSECTION IN A QUIET INDUSTRIAL AREA—NIGHT [...]
It’s not as much of a journey from religious music to Jerry Lee Lewis and the Die Hard movie franchise as you might think. For someone who began her recording career as a Christian artist, Sam Phillips has had a very secular professional life. Born Leslie Ann Phillips in 1962, she cut her last album [...]
