Lucius Heads Back to the Future
[Spin] The indie poppers re-released their 10 year old Wildewoman and it inspired their next album By Vanessa Salvia Indie band Lucius’s Holly Laessig and Jess Wolfe recently ended a 22-date string of shows with the National and The War On Drugs. Jess played many shows at 8 and 9 months pregnant and Holly and some ...
Congratulations to all the High Road Grammy winners!
Cory Henry for Best Roots Gospel Album for his album Church Dan Wilson and Jon Batiste for Best Song Written For Visual Media for co-writing “It Never Went Away” Tank and The Bangas for Best Spoken Word Poetry Album for The Heart, the Mind
New Orleans Band Tank and The Bangas Wins First Grammy With ‘The Heart, the Mind, the Soul’
[NOLA] Jon Batiste, jazz pianist Sullivan Fortner and R&B singer Lucky Daye were also winners on Sunday BY KEITH SPERA Tank and the Bangas, the genre-blending New Orleans band that intermingles R&B, funk, jazz, hip-hop and spoken word, finally has its first Grammy Award. During the pre-broadcast portion of Sunday’s 67th Grammy Awards, the Bangas’ “The ...
The Super-Sampled Band Cymande Made Funk With a Message. It’s Back.
[New York Times] By Jim Farber The British group with Caribbean roots stopped performing in 1974. Its slow-rolling comeback is realized on Friday with a new album, “Renascence.” By Jim FarberJan. 27, 2025 In the late ’70s, when the star hip-hop producer Prince Paul was just 10 years old, he heard a song that stopped him cold. ...
High Road Artists on NIVA’s Live List
Congratulations to High Road artists Elizabeth Moen, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Kate Bollinger and Squirrel Flower on making NIVA’s third annual Live List! The list highlights 49 must-see artists who’ve made waves on independent stages across the United States. NIVA, The Black List, and SARA Live in partnership with Paste Magazine aggregated anonymous votes from more than 1,000 NIVA members consisting of independent music and ...
