The title of my 2007 recording, Paint a Picture, Tell a Story, tells you everything you need to know about what is most important to me as a jazz artist. It’s critical to me that my playing and writing SAYS…
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BMN HOLIDAY MUSIC: TRAVELS WITH BRINDLE By Chelsea Spear
Chelsea Spear has been a music critic, a show promoter, a college radio host, and a video director… but all she really wanted to do was start a band. Not long after learning to play the ukulele, she formed the…
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MEET WILMINGTON NORTH CAROLINA INDIE ROCK BAND LAUDS
Lauds’ debut full-length Imitation Life is a lush, aural tapestry of blissed-out guitars against a backdrop of rhythmic tension woven by the five-piece, Wilmington, NC-based band. The lyrics of the 10 tracks ping-pong between anxious introspection and the search for…
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MEET MASSACHUSETTS INDIE POP ARTIST JATK
Over the past few years, JATK’s debut album Shut Up And Be The Light came together as a purely collaborative affair. Matt Jatkola’s name sat atop the figurative masthead, but the songwriter, musician, and multi-instrumentalist led a creative vision that…
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BMN HIP HOP SPOTLIGHT: DUO PURE ORDER
Coming from Oxnard, CA, Pure Order is a hip-hop duo consisting of God’s Gift and Nemesis who create strikingly unique music and visuals. Blood Makes Noise recently interviewed Pure Order about their new “Sons of Belial” music video, which can…
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BMN VIDEO PREMIERE: BOSTON EXPERIMENTAL SYNTH BAND CLAMB PREMIERE "EGGS" OFFICIAL ANIMATED VIDEO
The Boston-based experimental/krautrock band CLAMB and their visual collaborators DIGITAL AWARENESS have released the band's first music video for the track "Eggs" off of their debut album Earth Mother Grapefruit (2021, Mint 400 Records). Vignettes of a crashing wave, a…
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BMN HOLIDAY MUSIC: TRAVELS WITH BRINDLE "RUDOLPH'S RANCH" By Chelsea Spear
Chelsea Spear has been a music critic, a show promoter, a college radio host, and a video director… but all she really wanted to do was start a band. Not long after learning to play the ukulele, she formed the…
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WHAT'S IN OUR INBOX! JEREMIAH MOON, CARRIEGOSS, GALEN HARTLEY, GRACE GARDENER, UNDERLINED PASSAGES
Our inbox is over flowing again so we are letting you good people know exactly what is new and available out there in the music world. We have been swamped lately and it took some time but we saved a…
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BMN HIP HOP SPOTLIGHT: GBEKE ABOUT HER "AFRO BELLS" MUSIC VIDEO
Blood Makes Noise recently was able to interview rising musical star Gbeke about her Christmas pop/Afrobeat single and music video "Afro Bells", which can be read below.
Imagine knowing exactly what you want to do for the rest of your…
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MEET ASBURY PARK INDIE FOLK ARTIST BRIAN ERICKSON
Despite having been in our lives since 2009, Brian Erickson waited until 2020 to finally release a proper solo LP. But when it finally happened in the form of the 10-track Little Secrets, it was met with near-universal acclaim, proving…
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