Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week is ‘Alone at Last’ by Tasha on Father/Daughter Records. On her quietly confident debut, this soulful Chicago singer-songwriter offers portraits of intimacy and songs about the need for self-love. For years, the Chicago songwriter has dreamed hard of a better world—she’s worked with the local racial justice organization Black […]
Read More… from Eastside Radio’s Album of The Week: 1 Nov – 8 Nov 2018
Eastside Radio’s Album of The Week is ‘People of the Sun’ by Anthony Joseph released on Heavenly Sweetness. For ten years or so Anthony Joseph has traveled the world, recording and performing music in a somewhat makeshift manor. Visits to Trinidad until recently had been limited to only a few weeks or a month, but […]
Read More… from Eastside Radio’s Album of The Week: 4 Oct – 11 Oct
Eastside Radio’s Album of The Week is Jon Cleary’ ‘Dyna-Mite’, releasesd via FHQ Records. Jon Cleary is an English pianist, guitarist and vocalist, based in New Orleans. Cleary’s thirty-five years of intensive hands-on work on the Crescent City scene has made him a respected peer of such New Orleans R&B icons as Dr. John and […]
Read More… from Eastside Radio’s Album of The Week: 13 Sept – 20 Sept
Eastside Radio’s Album of The Week is THE SHAKEDOWN by TENDERLONIOUS FEATURING THE 22ARCHESTRA; released via 22a Label. Described as one of the jazz renaissance’s leading lights, TENDERLONIOUS has proven himself to be a valuable part of London’s jazz scene. THE SHAKEDOWN is TENDERLONIOUS’ first album and was recorded during one long eight hour session at Abbey Road Studios. Album: The Shakedown […]
Read More… from Eastside Radio’s Album of The Week: 30 Aug – 6 Sept
Eastside Radio’s Album of the week is LAST BAND STANDING by ORCHESTRE LES MANGELEPA on STRUT. ORCHESTRE LES MANGELEPA is Originally from Eastern Congo they moved to Nairobi and succeeded by mixing the massively popular music of their homeland with Kenyan influences and lyrics in Swahili. But despite their success in Africa, they didn’t tour in Europe […]
Read More… from Eastside Radio’s Album of The Week: 23 Aug – 30 Aug
Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week is Livingstone by Jungle By Night on the Rush Hour Recordings Label. Nine years ago, nine friends founded a collective rooted in strange sounds from unfamiliar places. Combining their tastes and an untameable hunger for music at a young age. Almost a decade of heating up dancefloors across the […]
Read More… from Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week: Aug 16-23
Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week is Phase by Mildlife on the Research Records label. Narrowing down Mildlife’s style into a genre is almost impossible, as they bond over the desire to push musical boundaries. No strangers to the Melbourne band scene, the four old friends have been drawing crowds through an epic journey at […]
Read More… from Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week: Aug 9 – Aug 16
Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week is About Time by Pat Powell on the Bamboozle Music label. About Time speaks to the heart of your favourite soul music, then takes twists and turns through romantic blues ballads and Motown funk via the deep south. Underpinned by the unfailing vocals of Australian artist Pat Powell (vocals […]
Read More… from Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week: Aug 2 – Aug 9
Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week is Diggin’ Bones by Phillip Johnston & The Coolerators on the Asynchronous Records label. Diggin’ Bones, the first CD by Phillip Johnston & the Coolerators features a unique sound which combines funky organ combo jazz with modernist jazz composition. Produced by The Necks’ Lloyd Swanton and featuring some of […]
Read More… from Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week: Jul 26 – Aug 2
Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week is Unstoppable by Candi Staton on Beracah Records. Unstoppable is both a celebration of Staton’s legacy and a bold step forward, with a sound that’s funky and contemporary, but still steeped in the Southern soul and blues of her Alabama roots. Featuring an ace rhythm section made up of Staton’s […]
Read More… from Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week: Jul 19 – Jul 26
Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week is The Window by Cécile McLorin Salvant on the Mack Avenue Music Group label. The world first learned of the incredible vocal artistry of Cécile McLorin Salvant when she won the prestigious 2010 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition. In just under the span of a decade she has evolved […]
Read More… from Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week: Jul 12 – Jul 19
Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week is HEAVEN & EARTH by KAMASI WASHINGTON, released through YOUNG TURKS RECORDING. HEAVEN & EARTH is the second album of jazz saxophonist, composer, producer, and bandleader KAMASI WASHINGTON and described as another incredible, mind-opening exploration into Washington’s ideas of creation in the universe. Clocking in at two and a half hours […]
Read More… from Eastside Radio’s Album of The Week: 5 Jul – 12 Jul