If you put on a Groundation album, you will hear smokey, moody reggae infused with technical jazz elements and the nasally, rebellious vocals of a Jamaican activist or African refugee. You will never for a second doubt the authenticity
But if you were to watch a video or go to a performance, you may be surprised at what you find. Groundation are far from Jamaican. And they are certainly not African.
Groundation are former jazz students from Sonoma State University. ...
Getting sick of all the flowery, bubbly Christmas songs this holiday season? Do you long for a little musical ...
In January, the massive EMI Group announced that they would merge Capitol and Virgin Records. Anyone with half a brain knows what comes next.
This "restructuring" came with a pink slip for a number of bands, namely Kevin Devine, The Redwalls, and the Shout Out Louds. ...
I know what you're thinking but Bryan Adams stopped making music. So has The Band. But are you really worried? The makers of Canadian VO , kick-ass maple syrup and national health care wouldn't let us down for long.It turns out, the past 5 years ...
In an article for SPIN Magazine, rock-critic journeyman Chuck Klosterman described a Detriot garage rock scene filled with bands listening to old Kinks records, drinking for three and basically being ...
In 2005, "desert-pop" act The Format was touring on the strength of their underground hit debut "Interventions and Lullabies," while writing new tunes for an album with Atlantic Records. When they finally finished the album, the band was convinced that they had a gem on their hands. Atlantic execs disagreed.
"They kept asking us why it didn't sound like our last album," said vocalist Nate ...
The newest addition to my running "Why didn't I think of that?!" list is the fully independent compilation entitled "Are You Still With Me?! A Tribute to Huey Lewis and the News." That's right, the protective bubble of irony sheltering ...
If you are going to call yourself a Garage Rock band, there is a bit of a protocol, a normative standard if you will; dirty kids playing dirty riffs out of dirty equipment, keeping pretension at an all-time low, and ...