I drive a 1996 Buick Skylark Gran Sport. It’s an old car, with a curmudgeon-y CD player which rarely plays the CDs that I want it to play. This can affect what I listen to when I drive, since my car seems to have a mind of its own. Luckily, my car has decided to play Ringside’s new album “Lost Days”. The sound of the band’s sophomore release takes on an old school r&b rock and roll vibe with lead singer Scott Thomas wailing over the top of the soulful music, think Dandy Warhols or Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, with his bono-esque vocals. I know people usually don’t like to be equated to an amalgam of other bands, but I think Bono fronting the “You Gotta go there to come back” era Stereophonics is an apt description that might make some people check them out. The title track featuring Ben Harper probably doesn’t hurt either.
Alt Altman of Digits has released a new single called Lost Dream, it’s full of the same soft vocals and mechanical musicality that he’s made his calling card as Digits.
