In the category of enduring musicians, Tom Easley is getting up there. He’s been making a career of it for the last three decades; either teaching at NSCC’s music department, or touring with one of the East Coast’s longest running musical mainstays, Hot Toddy. Despite that longevity, Easley felt he needed to get out and prove something to himself: that he can still do it like it’s the first time, and under his own steam. Joined by Mark Adam on drums and Geordie Haley and Kevin Brunkhorst on guitar, The Easley Quartet takes the eternally modern sounds of 80s jazz and makes them new again with The Starting Point VS The Steep Decline. Continue reading New Music: The Easley Quartet’s Futuristic Jazz Sounds of ‘The Starting Point VS The Steep Decline’
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New Music: The Lewinskies on Zen Accordion and ‘Yesterday We Had Everything’
There’s something magical about watching an accordion player in action. The rise and fall of the bellows seems to mimic the breathing of whoever’s holding it, working like one single entity. Perhaps this is why Kristen (Hatt) Lewis of The Lewinskies has experienced such personal growth when it came to learning to play the instrument. She hasn’t been playing the accordion for very long, but her connection to it stems back much further. Continue reading New Music: The Lewinskies on Zen Accordion and ‘Yesterday We Had Everything’
Single: Chris Ryan’s ‘Last Forever’ Is About “Not Being Satisfied With The Satisfactory”
As they say, you can take the boy out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of the boy. Though in this case we’re talking about taking Newfoundland Country-Americana artist Chris Ryan off the island and sending him to the big city. “Last Forever,” the first single from Ryan’s upcoming album, A New Hope, is about building something you can be proud of, even if it means leaving the place you love. Continue reading Single: Chris Ryan’s ‘Last Forever’ Is About “Not Being Satisfied With The Satisfactory”
Single: Sleepless Nights Get Woke With ‘Pink Popcorn’
East coast exports Sleepless Nights want to save future generations of musicians from foot-in-mouth disease with a little public service announcement in the form of a single. “Pink Popcorn” gets woke when it comes to loose language in lewd lyrics.A.A. Wallace, Sleepless Nights’ frontman, says that some rock classics are more than a little problematic in hindsight and, “Let’s not do that.”
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Premiere: The Muddle’s ‘Still Waiting On A Fix’ Combines Classic Hitters With Contemporary Hits
They say the key to creating great music is to take two steps to the left of whatever you’re familiar with. Our brains, the nifty little pattern recognizers they are, just gush with nostalgia-fuelled dopamine over the pop music of your formative years. Now imagine if you were to toss all that music into a blender and compress whatever came back out into an album. What you’d end up with is The Muddle and their debut album, Still Waiting on a Fix. Continue reading Premiere: The Muddle’s ‘Still Waiting On A Fix’ Combines Classic Hitters With Contemporary Hits