Off the Beaten Tracks April 2020

The mere announcement of a new Fat Babies album should inspire most readers of The Syncopated Times to run out and buy it. They are

I haven’t been this excited about discovering a new band in a long time. I mean T-shirts and bumper stickers excited. Part of my interest

I can thank drummer Hal Smith for sending this great little album my way. Without his endorsement I might have easily skipped over it in

The Funkrust Brass Band is a 20-piece “post-apocalyptic disco-punk brass band playing all original music with megaphone vocals, heavy tuba bass lines, thundering percussion and

Russell Welch is a name that comes up again and again as I explore the new crop of New Orleans musicians. I’m delighted to cover

At 62 Tim McInnes felt pursuing his musical ambitions had become now or never. He revisited his childhood Schaum method piano training and began to