I love the feeling of waking up on a Friday morning and smelling the salt air, seeing the sunrise, and diving into a brisk sea of new albums released. Today, Friday, May 28, I am […]
Author: Shaun Smith
Porter Robinson Builds His Musical Safe Space With ‘Nurture’
The lush, welcoming sounds bursting from “Nurture” make it easy to fall in love with the latest album from Porter Robinson. It opens with gentle piano and violin strings of “Lifelike.” There are subtle synth […]
New Music Friday, May 21, 2021
The rock music vibes continue this week on The High Note because I am stoked about the latest album from Red Bank, New Jersey’s own Monster Magnet “A Better Dystopia,” released today, Friday, May 21, […]
Parker Millsap Finds His Place With ‘Be Here Instead’
Going with the flow sounds so easy. Especially when someone else says it. I don’t care if it’s listening to Ram Dass while walking on the beach, surfing, or just running errands around town on […]
New Music Friday, May 14, 2021
Who said rock ‘n’ roll was dead? Not me, never! I was stoked last week to rock out to Van Weezer and this week The Black Keys are paying tribute to Delta Blues music with […]
‘Bushido’ Is A Cutting Compilation By Mello Music Group
I thrive on collaboration. There are times when I long for the days of sitting in a buzzing newsroom with phones ringing and exciting energy. The next closet thing in the meta world is probably […]
New Music Friday, May 7, 2021
Are you ready for Van Weezer? It’s here! It’s the first New Music Friday of May and we’re ready to rock out with Weezer’s latest! In addition to that, there are so many new albums […]
Breathe Captures Dr. Lonnies Smith In His Element
I love cosmic connections. Being a Smith, I say that ever Smith is my cousin and I find more and more relatives that are not really related to me, all the time. I’ve always felt […]
New Music Friday, April 30, 2021
It’s almost May and in addition to flowers, bars, restaurants and music venues are increasing capacities across the United States – giving hope to seeing live music again in the future. I’m always stoked to […]
Ryley Walker Course In Fable Review
I think now more, you have to give a pass to that friend who disappeared for a while and then showed up again. Call it, pandemic forgiveness, if you will. On Sunday I saw someone […]