Gig Alert: Quadron
Quadron"Horse"Playing on Monday at Cameo Gallery (93 N. 6th St., Williamsburg)Get: Tickets ($10) | Directions Danish electro-soul outfit Quadron pairs lush vocals with cool, minimalist production. The...
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Check Ahead: Barrence Whitfield And The Savages, 'Dig Thy Savage Soul'
Barrence Whitfield and the Savages' upcoming album Dig Thy Savage Soul (out Aug. 13) is the rock and R&B group's first American release in about 20 years, and a fierce next chapter for the raucous...
View ArticleAshanti Raises Indie Flag For 'Braveheart'
In the early 2000s, R&B singer Ashanti was a franchise player for the rap and R&B label Murder Inc. She provided the slinky guest vocals on hits by Fat Joe (“What’s Luv") and Ja Rule (“Always...
View ArticleGig Alert: Kelela
ARTIST: KelelaDOWNLOAD: Kelela, "The High"GIG: Thursday night at Rough Trade NYCThe Los Angeles-based singer Kelela specializes in understated vocal melodies over subdued dance beats. Her debut mixtape...
View ArticleWhat Will Your Summer Jams Be?
With Memorial Day coming up, it's time to break out the coolers, the lawn chairs, and the boomboxes (iPod docks?). We're thinking summer. And every summer has those songs that just won't leave you...
View ArticleThat Wasn't A Hit?!?: The Isley Brothers, 'Shout!'
Every so often, we turn our series That Was A Hit?!? on its head with frequent Soundcheck guest Chris Molanphy, calling it instead, “That Wasn't A Hit?!?” We look back at songs that -- although we may...
View ArticleJohn Németh: Channeling Vintage Memphis R&B
Singing earnest R&B melodies and blowing-out woeful harmonica licks, John Németh's sound could easily be mistaken for that of the classic Stax catalog. On the other hand, you would not guess that...
View ArticleThe Ways 1976 Rocked America; Curtis Harding Exercises 'Soul Power' In...
In this episode: In The Spirit of '76: From Politics to Technology, the Year America Went Rock & Roll, David Browne reminds us that 1976 was the year of the Apple computer, Saturday Night Live, the...
View ArticleThe Year Aaliyah Made a Comeback
I've loved Aaliyah from the moment I first heard the declarative "Age Ain't Nothing But a Number" in the Spring of 1994. I loved her even more when she embodied a martial-arts Juliet with "Try Again,"...
View ArticleGig Alert: The Jay Vons
ARTIST: The Jay VonsGIG: Wednesday night at Rough TradeMembers of the band The Jay Vons have all filtered through the musical stables of the 1960s and 70s soul revival label known as Daptone, most...
View ArticleGig Alert: Seinabo Sey
ARTIST: Seinabo SeyGIG: Wednesday night at Webster HallSeinabo Sey is a Swedish-born singer whose West African father was also a successful musician and actor. But Sey’s musical foundation is more...
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ARTIST: FloetryGIG: Monday night at the BB King Blues ClubBritish teens Marsha Ambrosius and Natalie Stewart met in the mid-90s and started performing together at poetry open mic nights. The British...
View ArticleGig Alert: King Solomon Hicks
ARTIST: King Solomon HicksGIG: Friday night at the Charlie Parker Jazz FestAt the age of 13 Solomon Hicks was playing his Bluesy R&B at the legendary Cotton Club with the All Stars Band and...
View ArticleSeinabo Sey: At Home Anywhere, Ruling Airwaves Everywhere
When the Kygo remix of Seinabo Sey's 2014 single "Younger" broke in 2014, Sey was quickly celebrated as an heir apparent to pop stardom. And it makes a certain kind of cosmic sense: she comes from...
View ArticleSteven A. Clark: A 'Lonely Roller' No Longer
This session has ended. Follow us on Twitter @soundcheck and Facebook at WNYCSoundcheck and we'll let you know when the audio is ready for download.Steven A. Clark grew up in the shadow of Fort Bragg...
View ArticleRemembering Allen Toussaint
It is entirely possible for you to be a lifelong fan of Allen Toussaint’s music, without even knowing his name.Toussaint, who died last night at 77, was a legend in New Orleans and a member of the...
View ArticleGig Alert: Ava Raiin
ARTIST: Ava RaiinGIG: Wednesday night at The Cake ShopThe artist known as Ava Raiin was born in Minnesota, raised in Texas. Those are pretty radical opposites — and tension between opposites shows up...
View ArticleWeekly Music Roundup: New Music From the Purple One, Meg Baird's Stately...
Rescue your Tuesdays with our weekly roundup of music news, videos, and songs that just might help you get through the rest of the week. This week, a Prince-ly surprise, an audio peek at The Revenant,...
View ArticleGig Alert: The Love Supreme
ARTIST: The Love SupremeGIG: Monday night at Brooklyn BowlMotown. Stax. Daptone. From Memphis and Detroit in the mid-sixties, all the way to Brooklyn in 2015, there’s a sound that music lovers keep...
View ArticleFinding Darondo
Justin Torres is a record nut, the kind who combs through stacks of dusty LPs looking for obscure gems. Torres told Chris Roose that he became obsessed with finding an R&B crooner named Daron...
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