Rob Bargad - Better Times - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

When a song comes, I make sure I don't let it go by, says Joe Pernice. Sunny, I Was Wrong, his first studio album of new material under his own name, was born during a period of concentrated inspiration and productivity. Songs were coming almost more quickly than he could get them down on tape, as though they'd been waiting to pounce at just the right time. With a little help from his friends, Pernice fashioned a handful of them into a beautiful refinement of all the qualities that have distinguished him as a songwriter over the years his facility for aching melodies, his penchant for arrangements that nod to pop's past without getting mired in nostalgia, and a deep empathy for the characters who inhabit his verses.Pernice has been catching songs for thirty years now, first with the alt-country legends Scud Mountain Boys and then with the indie-pop mainstays Pernice Brothers. In both of those groups he etched bittersweet stories out of songs that echo Jimmy Webb, Burt Bacharach, and Paul Williams. He's the rare artist who can record a Barry Manilow covers album that doesn't drip with condescension or irony. With Sunny, the album gradually came into focus-or at least an idea of an album. InchI knew I wanted to make a studio record, and I knew I wanted to make a record. I didn't want just a hodgepodge of tunes. I didn't want to make a concept record, but I wanted something that needs to be heard from start to finish. I wanted it to be a destination. An event.Inch Sunny, I Was Wrong tallies up all of those things that do get away from us friends and lovers we haven't seen in decades, old promises broken, cherished dreams forgotten, best-laid plans unrealized.

By popular demand, Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band is back with another must have of a two sider. Two tracks finding their way to vinyl for the first time that were cut during The Serpents Mouth sessions but only made it to the CD and digital . A lot of people wrote us asking for it, and here it is, a 7 inch that lives at the intersection of Funk, Soul, and Hip Hop. The A side is Bacao's crushing cover of the Jackson 5's B-Boy classic InchGreat To Be HereInch. A tune that a lot of people probably thought had steel pans on the original version, a misconception that lead to BRSB choosing it for their inimitable treatment. They open the tune with a chunky open drum break that gives way to the steel pan work banging out the infectious and instantly recognizable guitar lines from the J5's version. The B side finds Bacao diggin deeper into the hip hop crates again and coming up with a monster of a Gang Starr track to cover. Taking on their underground street anthem they cut for their Full Clip compilation, InchAll 4 Tha Ca$hInch. BRSB tease the tune in with the two top notes of the riff for the first 8 bars catching listeners ears and giving the DJs a record to work with. When the whole riff drops and they give away what the tune is they are covering awww shits & ooooooohs are sure to be heard out in the crowd. Album Tracks 1. Great to Be Here 2. All for the Ca$H

Rob Scheps - Comencio [COMPACT DISCS] date 02/15/2019