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Listen: Plants and Animals - "Lightshow"
Mike McKinley
November 30, 2011
Check out "Lightshow" -- the first single from Plants and Animals' new record, The End of That. The much anticipated follow up to La La Land will be released on February 28, 2012 on Secret City Records.

If you missed it the first time around, check out our conversation with Warren Spicer from last year about making La La Land and the band's philosophy.

Plants and Animals - Lightshow by SecretCityRecords

Video: Dr. Dog - "That Old Black Hole"
Mike McKinley
November 29, 2011
Here's a little taste of what's to come from Dr. Dog's Be the Void -- out February 7th on Anti-. It's a Scott McMicken tune called "That Old Black Hole." Check it...

Dr. Dog's tour starts in February -- check the dates here.



Funky Monday: Richard "Groove" Holmes - "Groovin' For Mr. G"
Mike McKinley
November 28, 2011
It's Funky Monday... because Friday has been owning that shit for way too long.

Here's organist and B3 master Richard "Groove" Holmes' "Groovin' For Mr. G" -- the first track off of his 1971 record Comin' on Home and also the first track off of the Blue Note Compilation Blue Break Beats Volume 1. You need this -- go buy the track here.



Video: Yellowbirds - "Beneath the Reach of Light"
Mike McKinley
November 14, 2011
Sam Cohen of Yellowbirds not only creates music that paints vibrant pictures in your mind, he also has a passion for creating the visual stimuli as well. Earlier this year when we spoke about his record The Color and the process of chasing after the magical sound that lives inside your head, we also touched on his growing love for making stop-motion animation videos -- check out the two videos he made for "The Reason" and "The Rest of My Life." It's great stuff.

Sam, along with Erez Horovitz, took a different conceptual approach for this video for "Beneath the Reach of Light." Check it out, and also if you haven't already, check out the record The Color.



MMW and Antibalas Together for Halloween Run
Drew Stoga
October 27, 2011
For years I never had to worry about making Halloween plans because it was just a given that we would all be going to see Medeski Martin and Wood play in New York. Over the years I saw MMW do Halloween shows with ridiculously special guests like Marc Ribot‚ Airto Moreira‚ Sharon Jones‚ DJ Spooky and the mightiest Afrobeat band around: Antibalas.

Knowing all that you can probably imagine how excited I was when I heard that not only was MMW reviving their Halloween tradition‚ but Antibalas was coming along for the ride. The news got even better when the band explained the plan for the night: an Antibalas set‚ followed by a MMW set‚ with a closing set featuring both bands (same deal for the DC and Philly shows leading up to the Hammerstein gig). Holy shit‚ right?

To get me even more riled up‚ MMW just released this video of the two bands rehearsing together:



Everybody say "yeah yeah."

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