Listening to Grey & Purple Songbook unravel their latest single, "Anthem of The Heart", is a bit like discovering a sequined glove inside the pocket of a heavy woolen parka. While the project hails from Oslo, a place my mind reflexively paints in shades of slate and frost, this track sweats with the humid, neon-soaked energy of a crowded dance floor at 2 AM. https://open.spotify.com/track/7xZj6BDbojwLT2HaAVokH5?si=f62742677baa4a12 The...

You can feel the kinetic friction of two decades of shared instinct the moment Hallaballoo launches into their latest album, “Gravity”. The Minneapolis collective James Douglas Gross, Robert Lee, Al Berg, Kyle Primus, David Kittelson, Aaron Short, Max LaRock, Travis Johnston, and Mike Wolfram has long favored living on the outer fringes of the jam-band cosmos. Here, they turn in-studio uncertainty into sharp, melodic...