Tag: Rocket Juice & The Moon

Let David Hillyard and his Rocksteady 7 smooth the way and bring it on home.

These Albini Sessions from Fugazi, a release from the band to benefit the late producer’s Letters Charity, is messing with my mind the way a transmission from an alternate timeline would. Elsewhere tonight: look at mclusky strutting around like they didn’t disappear for a couple decades.

Different from other UMO offerings, this is an instrumental effort. It features some of that signature swirling sound, but also incorporates droning and Afrobeat elements. Hypnotic and easy to get lost in, which is inevitable and recommended.

The Budos Band have a distinctive sound that blends afrobeat, funk, and a herd of thundering elephants that could also be one of the most aggressive brass sections around.

The mysterious Orville Peck is a modern cowboy marvel, a rare and legendary masked man with a dusty guitar and a lonesome coyote howl.

Well into their third decade, G. Love and Special Sauce still sound like they are in no particular hurry to get there.