The Creature from the Black Leather Lagoon
April 18th, 1977. Hollywood, CA. There was something foul and electric in the air that Monday night at the Starwood. The kind of charge you only find when the floor’s slick with beer and the crowd reeks of leather, cigarettes, and bad choices. The volatile energy of a live wire hissing on a wet dance […]
Weed, Shrooms And Black Confidence: JayWood’s ‘Leo Negro’ Explained
JayWood is in motion. The Montreal-based artist, born Jeremy Haywood-Smith, has released Leo Negro on Captured Tracks, a record already chosen as Bandcamp’s “Album of the Day.” It’s an album about identity, reinvention, and controlled chaos, threaded with sounds that bend genres and voices that bend expectations. But his story is not only about music. […]