Several years into a career as a genre and gender busting superstar, Philly’s Shamir releases as album worthy of his signature
If you have followed the career of Shamir Bailey – known singularly as Shamir, like
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Black Lives Matter. Black Music Matters. Two Philadelphia Black Music makers – Moor Mother and Bilal – embrace the moment
Moor Mother’s Circuit City and Bilal’s VOYAGE-19 are new releases, respectively from these two Philly Musical Sages.
Not a Fascist Groove Thang: Philly’s The Dead Milkmen record and release a new single for The Giving Groove label
35 years after their first album, “Big Lizard in my Backyard,” The Dead Milkmen are still cranking out music.
Philadelphia’s Psychic Agency: blue-eyed soul man Alex Fichera moves from soft jazzy R&B to slippery trip-hop
Everything Fichera does now, under the name Psychic Agency, is gently touched by the blue-eyed soul bug.
What’s so wet about West Philly’s Pink Sweat$?
The 27-year-old creamy crooner with the hooky tracks, the gorgeous piercing falsetto, a minimalist approach to orchestration, knows how to play the game.
Philadelphia’s Melody Gardot sends us a postcard: “From Paris, with Love” debuts today, June 19
Melody Gardot is the first musician to hold a recording session at London’s Abbey Road since the COVID-19 lockdown.
LISTENIN’ BOOTH – ESSENTIAL MUSIC FOR THE NEXT 7 DAYS (6.18.20)
Austrian rooted singer and songwriter, Elena Shirin’s “Patience” plus 4 other essential tunes you should be listening to right now. (6.18.20)
Philly-born VINCINT just wants to “Be Me,” when it comes to a new song recorded exclusively for the Philly-shot fifth season of “Queer Eye”
ViNCINT, still fresh from a recently-released, Valentine Day’s EP, “The Feeling,” is finishing up a debut album, and promoting a new song and video.
LISTENIN’ BOOTH – ESSENTIAL MUSIC FOR THE NEXT 7 DAYS (6.10.20)
Hip hop supergroup Run the Jewels return with their new album, RTJ 4 and the new track, “Out of Sight” plus 4 other essential tunes you should be listening to right now. (6.10.20)
How many local bands does it take to “Fuel the Fight”? Ask Philly musician/organizer/compilation curator Madalean Gauze
“Fuel the Fight” Volume 2 drops today with proceeds going directly to Philly charity, Fuel the Fight 2020.