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The musician’s long-gestating debut album melds killer tunes to grimy distortion and the scuffed gloss of Jam and Lewis-era Janet Jackson, and marks the flowering of an original pop voice

24 NOVEMBER 2021 (TORONTO, ON) – Universal Music’s Global Classics & Jazz labels have scooped 26 nominations for the 2022 GRAMMY Awards,

The bass and guitar virtuosos new collaborative album, Notes with Attachments, goes all over the map—and well beyond.

This ended up having to be a double column and a bit late because I spent the last two weeks in self-isolation after a Covid exposure. Now I’m back in the world (more or less – I’m under a stay at home order) and I got to catch up on two week’s worth of comics! Best Comics of the Fortnight: Beta Ray Bill #1 – I’ve loved Beta Ray Bill since I first saw him in Walter Simonson’s Thor comics, and have long felt like he’s criminally underused in the Marvel Universe.  I was really h...

Rock’s sideman of choice ... Pino Palladino, left, with Blake Mills. By his own admission, Pino Palladino is not a man much accustomed to giving interviews. “Very reticent,” he nods during a Zoom call, his accent speaking noticeably louder of his childhood in Cardiff than his current home in LA. “You know, there was a time when I was featured in all sorts of musicians’ magazines, and then I just thought to myself, ‘Move over, there’s people out there that a...

Yazz Ahmed – La Saboteuse (Naim): “Bahraini-British performer, Yazz Ahmed, is transforming what jazz means in 2017. This trumpet and flugelhorn-playing artist has worked with Radiohead and These New Puritans, experiments with electronic effects, and combines sounds from her shared heritage to author a new narrative for the genre. Part of the new wave of artists credited with stirring up the sound, including Kamasi Washington, Yussef Kamaal, Sons of Kemet and The Comet is Coming, Yazz Ahmed...

Open share drawer Two notable sidemen collaborate on an elusive instrumental album inspired by funk, West African, and Cuban music. The melodies are fleeting and the arrangements ever-shifting. Contradictory as it sounds, Pino Palladino is possibly the most famous working session bassist. The 63-year-old Welshman is known for his glissando tone and melodic fills, and he has built a four-decade career as the ultimate supporting player: providing a Stravinsky-inspired fretless performance on Paul...

Occasionally dazzling, sometimes unfocussed, storied sessioners team up for collaborative LP Superstar bassist Pino Palladino and guitarist / producer / solo artist Blake Mills have worked with a remarkable list of musicians over the years. From old-school legends like Bob Dylan and The Who to rootsy modern indie types like Phoebe Bridgers and Cass McCombs and progressive R’n’B superstars D’Angelo, Eryka Badu and Anderson .Paak, the list goes on and on. Palladino had p...

Multi-instrumentalist and producer Blake Mills and bassist Pino Palladino have announced a new album called Notes With Attachments. The collaboration is out on March 12 (via New Deal/Impulse!). Check out the lead single “Just Wrong” below. According to a press release, Palladino and Mills recorded Notes With Attachments across a two-and-a-half-year period. Guests on the reocrd include drummer Chris Dave, saxophonists Sam Gendel, Marcus Strickland, and Jacques Schwartz-Bart, and keyboardis...