African psych-rock collective @orchestragold‘s new song “Segou Heat” from their recent “Medicine” album is featured on NPR’s All Songs Considered, where Bob Boilen calls it “pure fire… I want to see this band so bad”! https://www.npr.org/2023/03/31/1167418589/new-mix-zoon-shirley-collins-orchestra-gold-pry-more  @nprmusic

In advance of Brendan Benson’s (The Raconteurs) new solo album “Low Key,” Rolling Stone is premiering  the singer/songwriter’s new music video “Ain’t No Good.” 

ROLLING STONE EXCLUSIVE
Brendan Benson Wants You to Know He’s Not a Skater — But His Newest Video Is Full of Tricks
“Ain’t No Good” is out now — and a new record is on the way

BY BRENNA EHRLICH

DESPITE THE FACT that his new video features a ton of skaters — and a cameo from him — Brendan Benson wants you to know he’s not a skater. “I feel I should clear that up straight away,” the Raconteurs co-founder tells Rolling Stone. “It was always a symbiotic relationship, though, so I’m well acquainted with it, and I’ve made attempts and hurt myself too many times.”

Benson is premiering the video for “Ain’t No Good” with Rolling Stone, the first single off his upcoming eighth studio album, Low Key, out Dec. 2. “‘Ain’t No Good’ is a weird song. I kind of stumbled on it (and throughout it), never convinced it was a viable song,” Benson says, adding that it was recorded while working on his last album, 2020’s Dear Life. “Upon listening after some time had passed, I got a completely different feeling from it. The verses then came. I listen to a lot of rap these days, so I think that influenced my phrasing and delivery. Coupled with this almost ‘barbershop’ refrain…it sprung to life for me.”

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NPR Music featured Ghost Funk Orchestra’s new studio album “A New Kind of Love” as part of their “New Music Friday: The Best Releases Out on Oct. 28, 2022, where John Morrison said the LP is “a really beautiful, fun and inventive way of flipping an old aesthetic that we know.” In addition, Robin Hilton added “I promise anyone who’s listening… have a dinner party and towards the later end of the party, put this record on. Everyone’s going to be asking you what it is. It’ll just have the perfect vibe.”

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Guitar World Magazine has a great two-page Tune-Ups feature on rising blues act GA-20 and their new LP Crackdown.

This Holiday 2022 issue of Guitar World hits stands on November 1, 2022. In the meantime, here’s a tease of the feature…