‘Sunlight Stalker’ is the closing track to Musical Charis’ most recent record Fool’$ Gold, and the band have now produced a suitably bright and bouncy video to show it off. Our review of the Sacramento group’s album described this as…
Sacramento’s Musical Charis have created a little gem of a record with Fool$ Gold. Knowing how lovely the band are (not many bands open their own music school for their community!), I was willing for this album to be good.…
It’s easy to forget how much fun water balloons can be. Or, as winter draws in, what the sun looks like. But Musical Charis are here to remind us. The former New Bands Panel favourites have handed us the UK…
Sacramento’s Musical Charis have just released their LP People, People, so we sent the panel in for a listen. Emma Dalby Bowler: Lush and full of life, jam-packed with uplifting harmonies, the album People People is at first not especially…
A lot of you will know Musical Charis, the Sacramento group who have graced these pages multiple times with their whimsical records packed full of ideas. The band’s lead vocalist and keyboard player Jessie Abbey is now poised to deliver…
Since launching the New Bands Panel a couple of years ago, FFS has featured well over 100 emerging artists and discovered some absolute treats along the way. We do our best to keep up with what a lot of them…
On her third solo LP, Juanita Stein emerges from the soundscapes of her previous works and again joins musical forces with her brother Joel, her bandmate from Howling Bells. The new record brings ten personal songs, woven out of snapshots from…
For a solid decade between 2003 and 2013, Adam Bendy toured and recorded with the New York quartet U-Melt, jamming amidst an ethereal blend of prog rock, funk, electronic, and jazz that eventually garnered the collective a national acclaim. Prior…
Taking a page from the golden book of Steely Dan, Gideon King & City Blog take some of the objective best pieces of folk, jazz, and other genre influencers and shake them up into a delicious mixer. They do so,…
Following the split of the aptly-named Christian Heath Band, the South African singer-songwriter has since moved on to produce work of his own. Velvet-covered pop defines the majority of his new EP, One, slinking in elements of Latin soul and rock…