Gospel and Rhythm & Blues Pave the Way
New genres of music aren’t created in a vacuum. If you want to learn about the history of funk and soul, you need to learn a little about the evolution…
Charlie Megira: The Enigmatic Israeli Elvis
Charlie Megira held a mysterious figure that felt more like a dream than anything. Armed with the looks and style of a Rockabilly star and a worn and faded sense…
Jan 2020 : LB Monthly Finds
It’s 2020 baby and the Bastards are not sleeping on the job! 2019 has been a fruitful year of music discoveries, and we hope that this year will be as…
Lanky Bastard’s Favorite ‘Bums of 2019
A month ago we turned the page on 2019. Your favorite bastards challenged themselves to come up with a list of favorite releases from that year. Easy task, one might…
Bowl Full of Funk n’ Soul
Something Special About that Sound There’s something special about funk and soul music. As a suburban-grown 90s white boy, I was raised on a steady diet of varied rock music—classic,…
December 2019 : LB Monthly Finds
New decade, new music. While December has been kind of slow for fresh lanky music, we still managed to discover some hot new shit.
Shroomie’s 2019 fav albums
Happy New Year Everyone ! I hope you had great holidays. In December I spent a lot of time listening to 2019 albums to try and come up with a…
November 2019 : LB Monthly Finds
For the last time in 2019 we present you our highlights of the month. This time we got jazz, blues, jazz, indie, jazz, funk, jazz, soul, jazz and more!
Happy Lanksgiving
Happy Lanksgiving to all our U.S. readers today (…and a very belated one to our northern neighbors 👀). I felt bad when I realized we neglected Thanksgiving last year and…
What makes an album great ?
As I’m going through tons of albums to prepare a list of my favorite 2019 releases, many questions emerge. Most of them revolve around a bigger one: How objective am…