Rob’s Album Of The Week: Radiation City’s Synesthetica
Portland, Oregon, act Radiation City convey this synthy style of dream-pop that takes over your senses. Reminiscent of Portishead and Roxy Music, the band takes bits and pieces of trip-hop […]
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Sokeo Ros Uses Hip-Hop to Explore the Refugee’s Struggle
In 1951, the late Langston Hughes questioned societal ideologies with a simple question, “What happens to a dream deferred?” Many have dared to tackle this question and failed, but one […]
CD Review: Jimmy Adler’s Grease Alley
By day, Pittsburgh’s James Addlespurger is a mild-mannered educator at a high school for the creative and performing arts. Armed with chalk and curriculum, he molds impressionable young minds into […]
The Roots Report: Getting into the Swing of 2016
Okee dokee folks … have we all settled comfortably into 2016? Hands? I have successfully written the date a couple of times on checks, and I made no resolutions, so […]
Alt-Nation: In Mourning
I had planned to start with a brief tribute to Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t include a few words about David Bowie, whose passing […]
David Bowie’s Blackstar – A Weird Star is Born
I found out about Bowie’s death just a few hours after turning this review. In retrospect, Blackstar is the kind of swan song only an unpredictable innovator like him could’ve […]
The White Panda at Lupo’s
On Wednesday, December 30, Cali-based mashup duo The White Panda (TWP) graced the stage at Lupo’s for the fifth time, and they did not disappoint. When I caught up with […]
Don’t Quit Your Day Job: J. Kobalt
Welcome to the second installment of Don’t Quit Your Day Job where I try to figure out how local musicians and struggling artists pay their rent. Let me tell you […]
Rob’s Top 10 Providence Shows of 2015
Another year in our wonderful little city of Providence has passed and it has been a great year for live music in The Creative Capital. A few shows happened in […]
Top 20 Albums Of 2015 (Because 10 Wasn’t Enough)
There’s a lot to be said for music in 2015. It was a year of consistently great albums from both the independent and mainstream. A few acts came out of […]