The History of Psychedelia

AKA: Psychedelic Music • Umbrella of styles intended to replicate or enhance the altered state of consciousness brought on by the use of psychedelic drugs, originating in the 1960s. Here are the best albums of the genre for each year from 1965 to the present. 1965: Ballads of Contemporary Protest, Point of Views, and General Dissatisfaction by…

Bruno Pernadas

Imagine wandering into a retrofuturistic lounge where the air is misty with martini dew. A big jazz band is the main attraction and their sound is foreign yet pleasing to the ear. Each song is a journey and when the trip is over, you see the world with new eyes. Bruno Pernadas is a Portuguese…

Top 10 Albums of 2020

This first year of a new decade will certainly go down as a memorable one. We’ve been cooped up and masked up and forced to turn inward. Music lovers were hard-pressed to see any of their favorite artists live. But thankfully, musicians kept cranking out great albums. Here are ten of the best from an…

Essential Blues

“I’m a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration – joy and pain sit side by side.” – Cornel West With a pandemic taking lives and a global recession taking livelihoods, now seems like as good a time as any to delve into the blues. Here are…