Alice Bag - Sister DynamiteOn her new album Sister Dynamite, L. A. punk icon Alice Bag confronts some of the most pervasive problems troubling the world today: unchecked privilege and willful ignorance, systemic inequality and fragile masculinity. Her third solo effort and first release for In The Red Records, the album also offers an unbridled celebration of community and the undeniable power in embracing one's own truth. In her impassioned push for freedom of all kinds, Bag

The album puts a classical twist on Goblin classics

she has lived in rural Appalachia for the last decade

particularly within Americana: folk

Poppy fields of fragmented melody and even dips into subterranean experimental bunkers of fractured ambience

15 on the Billboard Top R&B Albums chart

Evan Christopher - Art Of The New Orleans Trio

traveling from funky gospel to Gypsy folk to a hoedown shouter

almost ecstatic state

AZ-Months after guitarist Darin Mahoney emerged from a medically induced coma he was still unable to form even the simplest chords with his fingers

Samuel Barber could hardly have imagined that his Adagio would tap so deeply into universal feelings of grief and reflection once it had become known as his Adagio for strings and used in countless TV programmes and film soundtracks

multilingual collection marks a real musical breakthrough

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