Steady Sounds

05/09/2021

Mother, there is no other...

Official music video for ”I'll Always Love My Mama (Part 1)” by The IntrudersListen to The Intruders: https://TheIntruders.lnk.to/listenYDWatch more videos b...

05/08/2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqycY37sr_w

New to Nostalgia Music's Catalogue, 3 Decades of R&B, Vol. 1 includes this original from the soulful Lloyd Price who said "Bye bye baby" before Elvis Presley...

05/03/2021

https://richmondmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/music/going-way-back/?fbclid=IwAR1-qYJv3NJsKmE7E-uA8vtjjQlvB_qQKkUVu38LLPwPd6hWoEln9rpNi8Q

04/29/2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/arts/music/solo-guitar-diversity.html?referringSource=articleShare&fbclid=IwAR0IzIg2WgT2pYZ2IR0wbxqCcb9blDmuNsyt_4JdnMI_v5LRsjjbK2GM4qw

Since the heyday of John Fahey, the genre has been seen as the province of white men. A new generation of diverse players is rapidly changing that.

04/21/2021

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/21/989176978/butcher-brown-tiny-desk-home-concert?fbclid=IwAR3y1xq7fw7d80jtIw6WtOtPdv074qmnNgXvxMwShBGff94hcITCYzI2u2U

The Richmond, Va., band floats between jazz, hip-hop, funk and soul. Watch the group's rooftop Tiny Desk performance.

04/07/2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/06/arts/music/damon-locks-black-monument-ensemble-now.html?fbclid=IwAR3RDTopRITAMdPFOyga5RhXTccrFUftXcE-eH6BlvAXNbRl6S_NK515pSw

The Chicago musician’s group is following up its 2019 album, “Where Future Unfolds,” with an LP reacting to the events of 2020 titled “Now.”

03/11/2021

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56355444?fbclid=IwAR3CMvgd5stiC96ynLFB2Q4rTERoVeGxaqW_J0c-AhbGy6GNySjSqoRtpcU

The Dutch engineer's invention transformed the way people listened to music in the 20th Century.

03/09/2021

https://m.styleweekly.com/richmond/family-record/Content?oid=17186073&fbclid=IwAR1eyYJMwZhTDaRrl97T3LvwE6qrqXQm_XnEsmM88kE9FQ4M7rOYYixwuv0

A Richmonder rediscovers his family’s musical legacy through a lost Nat King Cole song.

03/03/2021

https://whyy.org/articles/jazz-legend-after-house-partially-collapses-gets-help-from-philanthropist-neighbors/?fbclid=IwAR1qy4e7qIv1oe4dhD5HfV3o4nQDmL6wI7NgeZ3MXDMj2kay7cW0WNVVFig

The bottom literally fell out from the terrestrial headquarters of the intergalactic jazz ensemble. Ninety-six-year-old bandleader Marshall Allen lives inside.

03/02/2021

https://www.punknews.org/article/74165/new-trailer-for-poly-styrene-documentary-released

A new trailer for I Am A Cliché, the documentary about the life of X-Ray Spex frontwoman and punk icon Poly Styrene has been released. The film was directed by her daughter Celeste Bell and filmmaker Paul Sng. According to the description of the documentary, it will feature “unseen archive materi...

03/01/2021

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/26/971419696/vijay-iyer-and-a-new-trio-reflect-on-the-uneasy-past-and-present?fbclid=IwAR3PrNpGrR_rryDSHBRo5ilBXXd

The composer and pianist joined with drummer Tyshawn Sorey and bassist Linda May Han Oh in late 2019 to record Uneasy, which now functions as a welcome reminder.

02/24/2021

https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/mr-soul/?fbclid=IwAR397LUQ7yVt1QGzHl-_FdtUGxZFV1vmAQ6TI7MUNapQgRvoUvNcwYpwGHc

Mr. SOUL! explores the first nationally broadcast all-Black variety show on public television, Ellis Haizlip's SOUL!