The Youngbloods could not be considered a major '60s band, but they were capable of offering some mighty pleasurable folk-rock in the late '60s, and produced a few great tunes along the way. One of the better groups to emerge from the East Coast in the mid-'60s, they would temper their blues and jug band influences with gentle California psychedelia, particularly after they moved to the San Francisco Bay Area…
Most of you will recognize the name Jan Schelhaas because you bought one of the Camel (“I can't see your house from here”, “Nude”) or Caravan records (“Blind Dog at St. Dunstans”, “Better by Far”, “The Unauthorized Breakfast Item”) on which he is one of the keyboard players. In the year 2008 Jan Schelhaas made his first solo album entitled “Dark Ships”. The successor “Living on a Little Blue Dot” was inspired by Carl Sagan's “Pale Blue Dot: A vision of the Human Future in Space”. On February 14 1990, at the request of astronomer Carl Sagan, the Voyager 1 space probe was commanded by NASA to turn its camera around to take one last photograph of Earth before leaving the solar system. On the resulting image our planet appeared as a single pixel, a pale Blue Dot. The funds necessary for recording this album came from a PledgeMusic campaign…
"Jon Irabagon releases the latest installment of his I Don't Hear Nothin' but the Blues series, adding rising star Ava Mendoza to his no-frills, brutal ensemble.
George provided the song “Run So Far” for Eric Clapton’s album “JOURNEYMAN” and participated in the guitar and chorus. George’s own version was included in “BRAINWASHED” released after his death, but he planned an omnibus album containing his own unreleased songs that have been stocked so far, including self-covers of this song from his lifetime. said in an interview.
Blurring the edges between philosophy and mysticism, modern art and radical political critique, the Afrofuturist impulse has been a cultural force since the mid-20th century. That’s when jazz visionary Sun Ra and his Arkestra first touched down on Planet Earth and told humanity that space (outer and inner) is indeed the place. It’s an impulse that in the new millennium has only grown more diverse thanks to a proliferating number of African-American musicians who use Afrofuturism as a platform to launch their own, unique visions. Among these explorers are cosmic jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington, post-everything beat maker Flying Lotus, R&B cyborg Janelle Monáe and dystopian noise-rappers Death Grips.