Music Genres

There are hundreds if not thousands of guys across America trying to make music like Butch Walker's new solid-rock album. They nearly always end up sounding maudlin, cheap, derivative, or all three. Walker raises the freshest crop out of this heartland ground I've heard in ages.

Vau de Vire Society and Tourettes Without Regrets are among the confirmed performance artists at this year's Symbiosis Gathering at Woodward Reservoir Regional Park near Oakdale.

Between 1982 and 2016, Nu Shooz recorded six LPs and an EP. Their most recent effort, 'Bagtown' (2016, NSO Music), is the culmination of much musical study in understanding the distance and intimacy between pop and R&B. Both Valerie Day and John Smith discuss the birth of Nu Shooz, their biggest hit "I Can't Wait" and more in this exclusive interview with Blogcritics!

While many of these 11 songs roam well beyond the traditional sounds of New Orleans R&B, they're bathed in the spirit of that most musically magical of cities.

"Ruff Patch" employs driving drums and a killer bassline to go along with colluding vocals by Indigo King’s multiple singers.

Sweet Sweet’s EP ‘In Tandem’ can be described as five end-of-the-night campfire songs.

Seth MacFarlane whisks you back to the era of great classic songs. Listen closely and you might hear Stewie or Peter Griffin sing a Sinatra hit, too.

Shelita Burke combines talented vocals with mainstream pop sounds in her upcoming EP.

Vocalist Martin McQuade and pianist/background vocalist Pete Sokolow present a jazz-inspired repertoire live at Gulf Coast restaurant in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

Elisabeth Lohninger is a fine singer and her original songs provide her with ample opportunity to show what she can do.