Features News What is Delta blues and why was it so influential? by Luke Saunders From Ma Rainey to Robert Johnson, many voices became a choir that birthed Delta blues and spawned a cultural wave that still rocks music today. The Mississippi Delta: the ‘land…
Lists Looking to set a mood? Here is the best background music in the world by Luke Saunders What defines background music? The perfect blend of rhythm, and groove yet without the ability to distract or overpower whatever it is you’re doing. Hence this list contains no lyrical…
News Vinyl Muddy Waters’ psychedelic LP Electric Mud set for vinyl reissue through Third Man Records by Happy The fifth studio album from blues pioneer Muddy Waters is set to be reissued on vinyl through Jack White’s Third Man Records. Electric Mud was originally released in 1968, marking Waters’…
News PREMIERE: Just when you thought there was too much psych rock floating around Ocean Alley throw reggae in the mix by Happy There seems to be a lot of psych-influenced music bouncing around at the moment, unless of course you ask Kevin Parker (then the Australian psych scene is dead). But contrary…