Polyrhythmics - Libra Stripes (LP)This is a funk record. Multiple horns, multiple rhythms, and multiple players. This album is a straight up instrumental attack, where the only voice you hear is the collective force of these eight players hitting all original cuts live and off the floor. Polyrhythmics are not trying to emulate or recreate something that has already been done. This is not retro, or throwback; this is music being made together, today in The Now. The raw, fresh and

who’s main gig is playing drums with the heavy-blues trio GA-20 (Colemine/Karma Chief Records)

Titles include "What Am I Gonna Do"

‘Sunday Afternoon’ by the Seattle-based instrumental soul group True Loves is as sweet and carefree as the imagery provoked by its very title

Despite the solid lineup

” lesser known jazz gems

listeners get to sample four distinct slices of ‘Soho Filth’ and raise their glasses to celebrate the next 20 years ahead

‘Good-Bye City Lights’ is the sixth release by Chicago-based recording artists M&R Rush that resonates loud and clear with the group’s Windy City upbringing

Great listening on the jazzy funk tip that will appeal to fans of the lighter grooves of artists such as Grant Green

returns with his remix of “Less is More” by The New Mastersounds

from his youth along the border of Colorado and Wyoming to the quiet moments aboard commercial fishing vessels in the remote waters of Southeast Alaska

With powerhouse vocalist Richard Love at the helm and soul revival pioneer Kelly Finnigan of Monophonics guiding the production and sound

each song breathes a life of its own into the record and it is evident that Hoyer’s spirited fanbase and eclectic palette of sounds are not confined by age