Page 22 - Captured Tracks News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

In more ways than anyone would care to count, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we live. Near the top of the list are the ways in which we experience music. Live music venues —from concert halls and intimate clubs to festivals and cruises— were hit the hardest and the future of these performance spaces remains uncertain. Staying productive Fortunately, we still have plenty of recorded music to enjoy while we face the possibility of both a vaccine and further lockdowns. Some musicians have used the opportunity of isolation to create albums. Gay singer/songwriter Isolation: 001 con...

Indie Basement: Best Reissues, Box Sets & Compilations of 2020 Having already posted the Indie Basement Best Albums of 2020 list, I thought I'd run down my favorite reissues and compilations from the past year. I stayed within the general confines of the things I cover on a weekly basis. So as much as I dig the Prince ˆmega-deluxe edition and Neil Young's Homegrown, they're not on this list. For the reissues, I picked things that either had lots of worthy bonus features or had been out of print for a long time (often both). I also picked an additional 12 reissues from this year that didn...

Other Music’s staff tell us their Top 10s of 2020 (listen to the playlist) We've been asking artists and other industry figures for their Top 10 albums of the 2020, and here we have year-end lists from a bunch of staff members of much-missed NYC record store Other Music, which closed in June of 2016. One of the first things a lot of customers did on walking into Other Music was look up at the giant white board above the counter to see the current staff Top 10 lists, so it's a treat to have a virtual version of that here. We got lists from 20 staff members, including co-owner

Radio LBB 34 Add to collection DOLCE rounds up its top tracks of the year As we round up our top tracks of the year, it’s plain to see that when it comes to new music, 2020 has been a real gem. Looking back on a year defined by live-streamed concerts and albums recorded in lockdown, it’s clear that creativity has continued moving forwards in spite of everything. Pop music pushes boundaries with Perfume Genius, while Pa Salieu proves that UK grime is capable of reinventing itself, too. Lava La Rue and Kari Faux, meanwhile, show female rap and hip hop on the rise. Experimental electronic ...

10.  Journey (It’s Yo World)  As the profile of Nashville’s hip-hop scene rises, so does the star of one of the community’s biggest talents, rapper Brian Brown. Brown released his debut full-length project Journey in January, proving that his toolkit contains much more than a knack for lending features and writing catchy loosies like 2018’s “Stoop Kid” or 2017’s “Ric Flair.” The excellent Journey track “A Cashville Story” takes stock of current-day Nashville and its gentrification-induced ills, a prime example of Brown’s apti...