Uptown Lowdown Year-End Special!
Uptown Lowdown wraps up 2021 with a Year-End Episode where we bring you our favourite albums, concerts, singles, films, interviews and more from 2021.
Uptown Lowdown wraps up 2021 with a Year-End Episode where we bring you our favourite albums, concerts, singles, films, interviews and more from 2021.
Dion – the heart and soul of New York City in human voice, presents Stomping Ground as an immersive Rhythm’n’Blues experience with a harder edge than last year’s great Blues With Friends. He brings along with the usual suspects – big names and cult faves – as accompanying artists.
Dion DiMucci, the 82-year old rock & roll Hall of Famer, shows no sign of slowing down. Here he is to talk about his new album, Stomping Ground, made with help from his friends with names like Springsteen, Gibbons, Frampton and Knopfler.
My first serious musical addiction was Doo-Wop around age seven. Only You and The Great Pretender by the Platters. Runaround Sue by Dion and the Belmonts. One of the very greatest, most soulful artists I have heard. Voice as natural and clear as Sinatra, with just that right amount of grit in the velvet.
Oh man, we’ve got some cool new tunes for you to hear today!
Brooklyn-based psych band A Place To Bury Strangers make a welcome return to Auckland this September after their triumphant performance at the 2013 Laneway Festival. Since then the band has released their latest album, Transfixiation and shared the bill with a reunited 13th Floor Elevators. The band is lead by guitarist/vocalist Oliver Ackermann and features […]