BREAKING NEWS: PETE SHELLEY OF THE BUZZCOCKS DIES AT 63
Pete Shelley, lead singer of legendary punk rock band Buzzcocks, has died at 63 of a suspected heart attack. The band are best known for their classics, “What Do I…
TRACK PREMIERE: SOFIA TALVIK, “Poem At Year’s End”
MusicTAP is very pleased to present to you this brand new track from singer-songwriter Sofia Talvik, “Poem At Year’s End”. Following Ms. Talvik’s previous holiday album, When Winter Comes, is…
Review: Tenchio – “Bedroom Chaos of The Inner Noodle”
Manuel Tenchio, who often just goes by the nom-de-guerre Tenchio, is a Uruguayan teenage guitar whiz who plays a kind of mutant math-thrash with reckless abandon. And if his second…
Review: To touch the milky way – Black Tape For A Blue Girl
For well over thirty years, the evocatively named Black Tape For A Blue Girl project, helmed by Projekt label owner, Sam Rosenthal, has produced strong and ethereally beautiful songs and…
Two Phil Collins Live Sets – Serious Hits…Live!, A Hot Night In Paris – To Be Reissued
The band Genesis was as successful in every mode that it found itself in – the era of Peter Gabriel, the departure of Peter Gabriel, the departure of Steve Hackett,…
Linda Ronstadt Live Set, Live In Hollywood, Planned in February
For well over a decade, Linda Ronstadt released a series of well-received albums and hit singles. From her start with The Stone Poneys, and their hit song, “Different Drum” that…
Cellist Julia Kent To Release New Album, Temporal
Julia Kent is a cellist and composer from Canada who currently lives in the otherworldly and artistic spaces of New York City. Previously, she had been actively involved with the…
Vinyl Review: Proxy by The Tangent
The Tangent just keep doing it—every new release is the new best album of their 15 year career. In a 2018 that’s already provided fans with Tangekanic’s live Hotel Cantaffordit…
Upcoming Release: New R. Stevie Moore Album Due On Bar/None
Afterlife, the latest studio recording from post-pop auteur R. Stevie Moore will be released by Bar None Records on February 22. Moore is widely considered to be the godfather of…
Bananarama Reissues Drama, Viva In Expanded Box Sets
Bananarama were the talk of the ’80s with their strong run of UK singles that included “Cruel Summer”, “Robert DeNiro’s Waiting…”, “Venus”, and a host of other hits, enough to…
LP Review: Calexico – “The Black Light: 20th Anniversary Edition”
I don’t know if I’m old but this didn’t seem that long ago. And only old people say that. It was 1999, maybe 2000, apparently. The venue was Maxwell’s, an…
Review: Life Goes On – Lovespirals
With two separate and distinct parts of a band once known as Love Spirals Downward, and now known as Lovespirals, the band spearheaded by Ryan Lum, has flowed neatly from…