Friday, February 7, 2025

Full Show Friday: Teddy Swims - Live at Lowlands 2024

We search the murky back waters of youtube to find full concerts and post them to the site weekly, come back every seven days to help us celebrate Full Show Friday's. These shows are of varying quality and may not be here for long so enjoy them while you can...As always, please support the artist every which way, but especially by seeing them live (if they are still playing)...This week...Teddy Swims!


Each January RtBE does a Jazz showcase and judging by the clicks, people just aren't as into it as we are. To make up for that, in February we go pop during our Full Show Friday series to blatantly attract page views.

We start our pop Full Show Friday showcase with Teddy Swims @ Lowlands Festival 2024. Enjoy:

Thursday, February 6, 2025

New Single/Video from Badflower "London"

The Los Angeles-bred and Nashville-based quartet Badflower have a new video out for their single "London".

Check it out below:

Album Review: James Black - The Funky Sides of James Black

James Black
The Funky Sides of James Black
*** out of *****

The newest entry into the excellent Tipitina's Record Club, is this yellow vinyl collection of music from New Orleans based drummer James Black. The record is split between his sideman work on side A and a few tracks from his unreleased solo album on the B side. 

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

New Single/Video from The Head and The Heart "Time With My Sins"

The long running indie-outfit The Head and The Heart have a new single/video out for "Time With My Sins"


Check out the track below:

Live Review: Galactic - Brooklyn Bowl, NYC 1/31/25

Hey all, got a new review up @glidemag which you can read Right C'Here!!!


It is of Galactic's recent live show Friday night January 31st at Brooklyn Bowl. 

Support the artist, read the review and peep some video below:

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Happy 45th Anniversary to Ramones End of the Century

Today marks the 45th anniversary of the release of the Ramones End of the Century album. 


While it is probably no one's favorite Ramones album, it still is a fun listen. You could win punk rock trivia by knowing that this album was the highest charting Ramones record. It was also the end of a perfect four album run (Ramones through Road to Ruin) and unfortunately was the beginning of more spotty albums from the band, but it still is an OK record. 

Album Review: Iggy Pop - Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 2023

Hey all, got a new review up @glidemag which you can read Right C'Here!!!


It is of Iggy Pop's new live album, Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 2023. RtBE is super impressed with this album, didn't know the 75 year old had it in him, or toured with a band this solid/inventive. 

Support the artist, buy the album, read the review and peep some video below:




Monday, February 3, 2025

Dylan Cover #667 Matt Borrello "John Brown" Live

In this ongoing Monday Series we will be exploring various artists versions of Bob Dylan song's. Today's tune is a live cover by Matt Borrello playing "John Brown"

Thoughts on Original:
An absolutely crushing anti-war song, that is a monster from Dylan and should be more well known. While "Masters of War" breaks down the war machine, "John Brown" addresses the human toll expertly. Musically it takes from the folk tradition, as lots of Dylan's early tunes do, but lyrically it expands upon the topics of patriotism, passion, and pain. A chilling tale of hurt and the cost of war, "John Brown" is an all-time great Dylan tune, an artistic protest song.  

Cover:


Thoughts on Cover Artist:
This is the first time RtBE has heard of Matt Borrello. 
  
Thoughts on Cover:
An excellent live cover of the powerful song...in today's political climate it couldn't be more on point. Which is sad.