Articles by Matt Bauer
Fantasia
Back To Me
PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2010
Forget about her recent aspirin-fuelled suicide attempt, reality series and the delays surrounding American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino's...
Radio Citizen
Hope And Despair
PUBLISHED Oct 4, 2010
The four years that it's taken Berlin composer/producer/multi-instrumentalist Niko Schabel to deliver a follow-up to his Radio Citizen moni...
Trombone Shorty
Backatown
PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2010
On Backatown, New Orleans, LA's Trombone Shorty (aka Troy Andrews) pulls off a rare, admirable feat; he's delivered a studio album that cap...
Andreya Triana
Lost Where I Belong
PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2010
After high profile guest spots on tracks by Flying Lotus, Mr. Scruff, Theo Parrish and Bonobo, Andreya Triana has finally dropped her long-...
The Budos Band
The Budos Band III
PUBLISHED Aug 22, 2010
The cobra that's poised to attack on the front cover of The Budos Band III isn't just aesthetically cool; it's an apt metaphor for the Stat...
Ivana Santilli
Santilli
PUBLISHED Aug 22, 2010
Technically, Santilli isn't a new album, since it's comprised of six tracks off of 2008's T.O.NY, three remixes and three new recordings, y...
Orgone
Cali Fever
PUBLISHED Jul 20, 2010
After the lofty expectations set forth by the auspicious funk monster that was their debut, 2007's The Killion Floor, L.A.'s Orgone don't d...
Georgia Anne Muldrow as "Jyoti"
Ocotea
PUBLISHED Jul 19, 2010
The ever prolific, multi-talented and often brilliant Georgia Anne Muldrow's latest incarnation is as "Jyoti" (meaning "light," in Sanskrit...