Shawn Donohue

On a rainy, overcast Saturday (May 18th), the New Orleans-based funk outfit Dumpstaphunk pulled into Williamsburg and set up shop at Brooklyn Bowl to lay down a night of grooving goodness.

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Low Hum’s newest offering, Terra Incognita, is a windswept soundscape of electronica-based indie rock. The sounds bump, fizzle, and soar over the ten offerings.

Multi-talented artist Jesse Dayton’s newest effort, The Hard Way Blues, is a collection of songs that play with the trifecta of rock-country blues as the Shooter Jennings-produced album weaves a variety of tales in the Texas dust.

Bonny Light Horseman has followed up their excellent 2022 release, Holy Golden Roller, with the group’s most natural-sounding music yet, the double album Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free.

To celebrate the release of their excellent sophomore album, Now That Is What I Call Fantastic Cat, the quartet Fantastic Cat took over Brooklyn Made for a hometown show on Friday night, June 7th. A packed house filled with friends and family found the band playing almost every song in their repertoire as joyous vibes beamed out from the stage.

Hermanos Gutiérrez’s previous release, the excellent El Bueno Y El Malo, was steeped in the ‘Spaghetti Western’ allure of Sergio Leone’s expansive films. For their follow-up, Sonido C​ó​smico, they relax, looking into the cosmos for some outer space waves of inspiration as their guitars continue to weave instrumental magic.

Lake Street Dive’s newest album, Good Together, keeps up the group’s knack for eclectic sounds while focusing more on 80s-inspired electro-pop. The opening pairing of the title track and “Dance With A Stranger” uses synths and light percussion to deliver two fairly bland soul/pop numbers that never punch up the energy. Much better is “Far Gone,” which starts with whistling but moves into an upbeat party number with sultry vocals, fast drumming, and electro keys.

The newest release from Boulevards (aka Jamil Rashad) wastes no time kicking ass, even before the music starts, displaying dynamite cover art that draws inspiration from Django Unchained, Game of Thrones and

Dirty Three’s newest album, Love Changes Everything on Drag City Records, is the first from the veteran trio in 12 years. The trio mixes their avant-garde sounds into a sonic whole.