Album Review: Mergence, “Live At The Crescent Ballroom Phoenix Arizona”

If you’ve spent any time on the Arizona local music scene, the name Mergence should be very familiar to you. This band has been playing to a steadily increasing fan base at venues all over the Valley. As these guys begin to dip their toes in California territory, playing a few shows here and there…

Flying Lotus, "Until the Quiet Comes"

Album Review: Flying Lotus, “Until the Quiet Comes”

Steven Ellison, the mastermind behind the genre-creating, movement-starting, crowd-moving moniker Flying Lotus (or FlyLo), has quite a few singles, EPs, compilations and mixes, all of which can be hard to keep track. However, his full-length albums now rest at a more manageable four. His previous album, Cosmogramma, adopted strong influences from jazz and hip hop,…