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Ink 19 is the Southeast’s new music source. Since 1991, we’ve been bringing the most exciting music from around the globe to the attention of more than 150,000 readers. Starting as a regional print publication in the Southeast US, Ink 19 is now a website with a global reach. Source
Robyn Hitchcock Here I am, stranded in the future, but that can’t stop me from sending you, dear reader, into the early ‘90s, when visiting a new city meant participating in a near-extinct treasure hunt in record stores, looking for imports, bootlegs, and unheard-of items from your favorite artists. This is how I came by a live recording of the Soft Boys, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, of all places.
Static Charge Plugging into Static Charge, their narcotic and deeply engrossing 19th studio album, The Telescopes discover the electricity is out. Half awake and completely in the dark, enigmatic mastermind Stephen Lawrie and a trio of likeminded explorers — bassist Robert Prest, guitarist Darrell Carter, and percussionist/drummer John Lynch — take the opportunity to drift into the mysterious, malevolent unknown, slow-moving currents dragging them further than they’ve ever gone.
In Sore Bless Experimental art-rock duo The Discretes will unveil their debut album, In Sore Bless, on August 11, with the vinyl release scheduled for September 15.
“Two Animals” On “Two Animals,” Dustin Ransom explores the paradox of identity, juxtaposing the truth of who we really are against the persona we present to others and the world. “Two Animals” offers a taste from Ransom’s upcoming album, Brothers. A former relationship inspired the song, which reveals a common difficulty. Did you fall in love with a synthetic representation, someone behind a mask, or an actual person? Dustin Ransom “’Two Animals’ is a very primal, guttural song,” says Ransom.
Bass and Face Chuck Bergeron is a New Orleans native who has been a journeyman musician for over 40 years. He spent time in the bands of Buddy Rich and Woody Herman before turning to a wide variety of collaborators including Stan Getz, Dave Grusin, Randy Brecker, Sheila Jordan, Dee Dee Bridgewater, John Abercrombie, and Elvis Costello. These days, Bergeron devotes himself to teaching at the University of Miami and leading his South Florida Jazz Orchestra.
directed by James N. Kienitz Wilkins starring Jesse Wakeman, Jess Barbagallo, John Magary, and Callie Hernandez If there is an element that most defines contemporary American independent cinema, it is the cloying relatability, in the guise of authenticity, deployed to elicit an overwhelming sense of catharsis. But throughout his career, James N.
Wendekind Mission critical for the mesmerizing and metaphysical Wendekind is memory recovery. As spiritual visions of the future intrude upon self-reflective rumination, past decisions being analyzed and dissected to death, inward-looking Lukka launches another successful Kosmische musical adventure, pushing ever deeper into the vast recesses of spacey, modernized Krautrock while under the influence of vivid, psychedelic spells and shifting easily into driving, relentless groove.
Knocked Down A.D.A.M. Music Project, AMP to those who prefer acronyms, releases Knocked Down, a 12-song hard-rock album with beaucoup oomph. Based on Atari’s 1982 jungle-runner Pitfall!, the album unveils a barrage of alt-metal muscle, big hooks, and driving momentum. Founder Adam DeGraide and Dameon Aranda write and produce while a revolving door of musicians and vocalists show up to take care of business. Think of AMP as a multi-player game of rock music.
“Chrome” On “Chrome,” street rappers Sam E Hues and Nino Breeze turn Florida car culture into a high-gloss rap statement. The single and video move like a slow cruise through candy paint, chrome rims, low lows, swangas, and bass heavy enough to shake the block. “Chrome” arrives on the heels of Hues’ “God’s Hands,” with Freddie Gibbs. And Breeze’s latest project has amassed more than 17 million streams.
directed by Jean-Pierre Mocky starring Jean-Pierre Mocky, Sylvie Bréal, Denis Le Guillou Jean-Pierre Mocky deftly mixes visual and thematic elements of American Film Noir with some of the more pulpy vibes of the German Krimi film to create the quirky thriller Solo. Mocky wrote, directed and starred in the film that follows a man getting pulled deeper into the world of his younger brother’s violent revolutionary militia in an attempt to save him.