Guardian Music — (Partisan) Bombino is a singer-songwriter and guitarist from Niger, with his own take on desert blues. He has a rock-star image and sets out to target indie-rock fans as well as African music devotees. There’s nothing wrong with that, as new fusion... more info

Roadrunner - Blabbermouth — Best known as a founding member and bassist of BLUE ÖYSTER CULT for sixteen years, who also played piano, keyboards and guitar, Joe Bouchard has nine gold and two platinum records to his credit. As a songwriter, he wrote many BOC songs including the... more info

Nialler9 — Roman Flügel is one of four artists to tackle remixing tracks from Fort Romeau’s recent Insides album. The Frankfurt Versions features reworks by DJs and producers known for playing at places like Robert Johnson in Frankfurt including Tuff City Ki... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — A century before bluesman Robert Johnson's mythical confrontation at a Mississippi crossroads, another prodigious musical talent was believed to have struck a deal with the devil: Niccolo Paganini, 19th century violin virtuoso, international luminary... more info

XLR8R — Techno futurist Massimiliano Pagliara has announced that he will deliver his second full-length album via the venerable Live at Robert Johnson imprint in September. read more more info

XLR8R — Somehow, Simian Mobile Disco has only gotten better with age. Initially emerging alongside—and somewhat unfairly lumped in with—the electro-house movement of the mid 2000s, the pair (consisting of synth-obsessed Londoners James Ford and Jas Shaw)... more info

XLR8R — Over the weekend, XLR8R made the trip to Barcelona for Primavera Sound, an indie-leaning festival which had nonetheless compiled an impressive roster of electronic talents for the 2014 edition of the annual event—most of which who took to the decks... more info

Time — In disaster movies, the disaster never comes soon enough. Filmmakers tend to sketch the lives and romantic entanglements of their main characters for an hour or so before fate confronts them with an iceberg (Titanic), “an enormous wall of water” ... more info

XLR8R — London house specialist Fort Romeau (an artist more recently associated with the venerable Ghostly label) has announced that he'll soon release a new EP via Frankfurt's Live at Robert Johnson imprint in March. read more more info

KEXP Seattle — Sometimes when I’m filing away records, I imagine what would happen if the CDs or LPs were actual people in a room together. Take the slice from the J’s above and throw an imaginary cocktail party. Tom Jones has a mouth-breathing fan-boy meltdown... more info