Lee Fields

At the beginning of this decade, sax player Neal Sugarman and bassist Gabriel Roth founded Daptone Records in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. Read More

Sometime around 1999 I was living in New Haven, Connecticut and working at Cutler's Music, a local record store that had been around since the 50's. Read More

When in 1999 Björn Wennås moved from Sweden to Boston to study jazz guitar, he hardly imagined that he'd one day be playing in an ensemble that specializes in Italian folk music of the 12th to 19th centuries. Read More

I n his own words – and he doesn't scrimp with them – Lee Fields was "highly energetic and anticipating very good times." Read More

In an age where audible masculinity is often associated with loud guitars and aggressive screaming, you are really putting yourself out in the open (and taking a few commercial risks) by shaping your vinyl records in the shape of a heart. Read More

Like Somali fishermen xeroxing short stories to share with passing ships, music bloggers aren't pirates. Read More