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“I showed up to band practice in this meditation fit that I’d been wearing all day. My buddies thought it was just ridiculous, and everybody roasted me for it. Elliot Ward in particular, who is normally a pretty mild-mannered guy, he was for some reason very vicious toward me. As I said before, these clothes were very comfortable. 'Spiritual Kick' was written that night in the car on the way home. It’s nice to know all your bandmates are having a laugh, but sometimes they take it too far.” -- M Ross Perkins
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“I showed up to band practice in this meditation fit that I’d been wearing all day. My buddies thought it was just ridiculous, and everybody roasted me for it. Elliot Ward in particular, who is normally a pretty mild-mannered guy, he was for some reason very vicious toward me. As I said before, these clothes were very comfortable. 'Spiritual Kick' was written that night in the car on the way home. It’s nice to know all your bandmates are having a laugh, but sometimes they take it too far.” -- M Ross Perkins
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![M Ross Perkins - Spiritual Kick [OFFICIAL AUDIO]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Xge7VsfBabw/mqdefault.jpg "M Ross Perkins - Spiritual Kick [OFFICIAL AUDIO]
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“I showed up to band practice in this meditation fit that I’d been wearing all day. My buddies thought it was just ridiculous, and everybody roasted me for it. Elliot Ward in particular, who is normally a pretty mild-mannered guy, he was for some reason very vicious toward me. As I said before, these clothes were very comfortable. Spiritual Kick was written that night in the car on the way home. It’s nice to know all your bandmates are having a laugh, but sometimes they take it too far.” M Ross Perkins
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![Thee Sinseers - Love Stories [FULL ALBUM STREAM]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Xncb4fsGGIk/mqdefault.jpg "Thee Sinseers - Love Stories [FULL ALBUM STREAM]
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0:00 - Oh Love
3:09 - Did Ya Know?
6:49 - Lets Fall In Love (Again)
10:03 - There She Goes
13:40 - Let Em Shine
16:53 - How Lonely Is Lonely
20:23 - What Can I Do?
24:04 - Cry Baby
26:49 - Minute By Minute
30:37 - She Was In Love
34:29 - While You Were Sleeping
Catching up with Thee Sinseers ahead of their new Colemine Records release, Love Stories, one thing becomes abundantly clear: this is not an LP that explores a neat and tidy love story.
The vision of love put forth on this record is full-spectrum. Think of the seminal 1993 East LA film Blood In Blood Out — three protagonists bound together through hardship, strife, and diverging roads, who ultimately circle back to reckon with why they remain. Its a similar story here. Love Stories isnt interested in the happy ending. Its interested in everything that comes before it, after it, and in spite of it.
More than a new record, Love Stories is a portrait of a band that has finally grown into itself — one that knows exactly who it is and isnt shy about saying so. As Quiñones puts it: Its a solidifying statement of where we are now. This is our style.
In contrast to Sinseerly Yours, which had developed organically from a four-piece into an eleven-member ensemble, Love Stories was built from the ground up as a collective effort — every role established before the band entered the studio. We went in knowing these are the roles that are gonna be played by these people, Quiñones says. Everybody was considered wholeheartedly in every arrangement aspect.
The band leaned into earthier instrumentation — standup bass, guitars run through amplifiers for a warmer sixties-adjacent tone — pulling inspiration from wherever it presented itself, even the most unlikely of places. Its that cross-genre thinking that Quiñones sees as the records defining quality. It didnt feel like we were making soul music at any point, he says. It felt like we were making our music.
But the sonic ambition of Love Stories only tells half the story. The band sought to capture something more honest than a highlight reel — showcasing the highs and lows of romantic relationships while expanding the frame to include the familial, the complicated, and the unresolved.
The bands parents appear in the album art, their own love stories folded into the records visual identity, some of those stories still standing, others not. Quiñones wanted listeners to sit with that ambiguity. Love is never-ending, he says. It stretches beyond lifetimes. I want people to still be confused — I want it to be left like an open book.
Yet one thing remains constant throughout: Thee Sinseers commitment to where they come from. That East LA identity doesnt announce itself — it simply exists, woven into the fabric of the music without being worn as a badge. As Francisco Flores puts it: Were from here. You can hear it a thousand miles away. You cant deny it — but we dont try to. It just comes out that way. Nowhere is that more apparent than on Minute by Minute, which Quiñones describes as the albums most neighborhood-feeling moment — a slow dance number that conjures the gymnasiums of Roosevelt and Garfield High, intimate and unhurried, like a memory you didnt know you were making. Theres no performance of heartbreak here, just the real thing.
Like an unsent love letter finally delivered, Love Stories carries the weight of everything that was felt but never quite said. The universality of that feeling is perhaps best captured in Quiñoness own words: Its never too late to change. Its never too late to tell a person you love that you love them. After any song on this record, Eric Johnson says, theres really only one appropriate response. Damn.
THEE SINSEERS:
Luis Carpio, Adriana Flores, Francisco Flores, José Luis Jimenez,
Eric Johnson, Chris Manjarrez, Bryan Ponce, Joseph Quiñones, and Steve Surman
Produced by Joey Quiñones
Mixed by Kelly Finnigan
Mastered by JJ Golden of Golden Mastering
Recorded at Second Hand Sounds in Rialto, CA
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![Joey Quinones - Inna Soul Steady Situation [FULL ALBUM STREAM]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZQV-DjtZNm8/mqdefault.jpg "Joey Quinones - Inna Soul Steady Situation [FULL ALBUM STREAM]
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1. Soul Steady Situation - 0:00
2. Guess Thats Just Loving You - 4:06
3. There Must Be Something - 6:33
4. Dont Let Go - 9:08
5. In My Arms - 13:30
6. For You - 17:31
7. Driftin - 20:55
8. Dont Be Late - 24:57
9. Bolsita - 28:10
10. One More Night - 30:43
11. Situation 2 - 34:01
If you were to ask Joey Quiñones where he found inspiration for his music, you wouldnt have to look far from where the East LA son grew up. Listen to his work, and youre transported to a two-block radius of his neighborhood—from the liquor store to Sign of Music record store on Whittier Boulevard and back to a homies house. In those two blocks, you hear cumbia blaring from the stores, punk rehearsals from a garage, oldies drifting from a neighbors yard—a sensory overload that follows you home, all those genres singing in your head at once.
This isnt a revelation to longtime fans of Quiñones music. He has established himself as a premier interpreter of his generation, dedicating his career to offering his unique perspective on the Chicano soul songbook. But before Thee Sinseers, before the lush orchestrations and pitch-perfect harmonies that became his signature, Quiñones cut his teeth leading various backing bands for visiting Jamaican ska and dancehall acts touring Southern California. He describes those years as reggae college, getting yelled at by every Jamaican artist who had a record out. Those years of apprenticeship in rock steady and roots reggae would inform everything that followed—and on his new solo record Inna Soul Steady Situation, Quiñones finally showcases those influences front and center.
That quintessential blending of styles rings out immediately on the opening track Soul Steady Situation—Quiñoness vocals enter like a selector toasting over the riddim, an alarm call announcing his intentions with an urgency that feels club-ready and immediate. Then comes the classic drum fill, dropping into a rock steady groove that establishes the vibe: this is dancehall-infused soul meant for movement, not just contemplation. Its a deliberate departure from Thee Sinseers lush orchestrations, stripped down to showcase the Jamaican foundations that have always lived beneath Quiñoness work.
Before you know it, youve taken off on a sonic soul spaceship with Quiñones at the helm, supported by his two-person crew: Eric Johnson from Thee Sinseers on saxophone and Eleazar from the Brown Boyz on piano, as you cruise across silver-lined clouds and dip your toes into dreamy moonlit grooves found on Dont Let Go, Driftin and One More Night.
What Quiñones manages to do on this record is prove time and time again that he is an artist willing to take risks and continue to show his prowess when it comes to experimenting with different styles, while still being able to authentically express himself.
With that authentic self-expression, Quiñones and his crew manage to squeeze in some lighthearted fun as well, establishing a sense of equilibrium to counteract the heavier emotional overtones found on previous Sinseers efforts. A perfect example is Bolsita, a tongue-in-cheek party song paying homage to iconic anthems like Tequila by The Champs and Tighten Up by Archie Bell & the Drells. But Quiñones doesnt stop there—he folds in electric boogaloo, early Ray Charles big band energy, and the Latin soul flourishes of Joe Cuba and Willie Colón, creating something that feels both nostalgic and fresh. Eric Johnsons saxophone takes center stage, adding playful solos that widen the sonic spectrum. The term bolsita, which translates to little bag, serves as the lingua franca for lets get the party started—its admittedly corny, Quiñones will tell you, but its the kind of song where everybodys going to shout along whether they like it or not. And thats precisely the point.
By the time you reach the end of the record, having followed Quiñones across various genres and eras, you realize youve witnessed an artist in his prime doing what the best always do: capturing something deeply specific—Chicano identity, East LAs sonic DNA—and in that specificity, revealing something universal. Its music that transcends age, race, geography, and class precisely because it refuses to sand down its edges. Cross-generational talent building timeless appeal, one genre-blurring groove at a time.
Produced, mixed, and performed by Joey Quiñones
Mastered by Doug Krebs
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![Okonski - Easy [OFFICIAL AUDIO]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_B51luUi5zY/mqdefault.jpg "Okonski - Easy [OFFICIAL AUDIO]
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Written and drilled over countless soundchecks and rehearsals for a myriad of different bands, Easy initially seemed to exist as a sort of secret instrumental track for a fictitious hip hop album that was never released. It starts lazily, the piano floating around the drums and bass. A big staircase of sound emerges as the piano gradually steps down into an isolated drum beat. The track finishes with an almost hopeful coda, a shout chorus with the single note on the Hammond swelling to the climactic ending. “This track harkens back to late nights walking around the city without any real place to go,” Okonski says, “With no real purpose or destination in mind but ending up right where you were supposed to be.”
This liberated Okonski track features Steve Okonski on keys, Aaron Frazer on Drums, and Michael Montgomery on bass.
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![M Ross Perkins - Whats the Matter, M Ross? [FULL ALBUM STREAM]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/__xR3JZIvTo/mqdefault.jpg "M Ross Perkins - Whats the Matter, M Ross? [FULL ALBUM STREAM]
M Ross Perkins new album Whats the Matter, M Ross out now! Buy / stream / download here: https://colemine.lnk.to/kcr12043
1. Hey Man/Hey Self - 0:00
2. Saccade I - 4:01
3. Gone (In the Morning) - 5:37
4. Crying in My Sleep - 8:26
5. Spiritual Kick - 11:25
6. Saccade II - 14:28
7. I Feel So Dumb - 16:42
8. I Dont Wanna Be So High - 18:58
9. Saccade III - 21:27
10. Baby, My Bad - 22:35
11. A Date for One - 26:06
12. Thats Fine - 28:33
13. Bouquet - 32:35
14. Saccade IV (Plastic in the Face of Mind) - 34:50
15. Quite Right Kindly - 36:14
What’s the Matter, M Ross?, the third installment from the idiosyncratic M Ross Perkins, finds our boy on an inward journey, exploring the transcendental and existential with his most lyrically confessional album to date. It’s a record that serves notice that multi-instrumentalist Perkins belongs amongst the singer/songwriter zeitgeist that has swooned over MJ Lenderman and Waxahatchee while serving as a conduit to optimism.
Composed, performed, and recorded completely by Perkins in his Dayton, OH studio, What’s the Matter… is both the most stripped down and expansive within his tryptic of albums. The headphone symphonies move with a deliberate, composed sophistication while the lyrics explore fresh territory, turning the camera away from the “butterscotch revue” and pointing it into a mirror. The touchstones of psych pop remain: flourishes of Nilsson are still here, but so are Gram Parsons and Jonathan Richman. If you want to assign geography to What’s the Matter, M Ross?, the album is equal parts Laurel Canyon and Big Pink, more Woodstock the town than the festival. Perkins is a self-contained (late-period) Teenage Fanclub with George Harrison’s spiritual sense of inner wanderlust.
Jonathan Richman once said, “Poetry, if you love it, it works its way into your conversations and into anything you do.” Perkins’ new album is replete with the poetry of creation and living, signaling a sea change in how he writes and creates music. That end yield can be heard in the album’s lead track “Hey Man/Hey Self,” a song that marries signature Perkins’ ear for a cosmic pop hook with the contemplative.
“I am a filter for raw experience,” explains Perkins. It’s a thought that provides a window into his artistic process, which evolved between his Karma Chief debut and What’s the Matter, M Ross? He continues, “The writer puts one hand on the universe — the bare wire — and puts [the other hand] on the shoulder of the human being, the listener/the reader, and just acts as this conduit between some reality undistilled that becomes consumable through this filter of my consciousness.”
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![Thee Sinseers - There She Goes [OFFICIAL AUDIO]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_frT4uZ9nl4/mqdefault.jpg "Thee Sinseers - There She Goes [OFFICIAL AUDIO]
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There She Goes arrives in full panoramic sound — western reverb guitar shimmering like a desert sunset at the edges, horns bringing a sweeping big-band grandeur to the center, with the Delfonics, Chi-Lites, and Stylistics as its soul orchestration touchstones. The protagonist is searching for a way to mend a broken heart, and what makes the track land is how human that search feels — held up by a call-and-response between Quiñones and the band that moves between longing and resolve like a conversation with yourself at 2 a.m. Theres no performance of heartbreak here, just the real thing.
THEE SINSEERS:
Luis Carpio, Adriana Flores, Francisco Flores, José Luis Jimenez,
Eric Johnson, Chris Manjarrez, Bryan Ponce, Joseph Quiñones, and Steve Surman
Produced by Joey Quiñones
Mixed by Kelly Finnigan
Mastered by JJ Golden of Golden Mastering
Recorded at Second Hand Sounds in Rialto, CA
LYRICS:
If she’d only knew there’s nothing I wouldn’t do
To keep away from love
(To keep away from love)
If she’d only find little peace of mind to walk away from me
(To walk away from me)
There she goes shedding more tears
(She’s mistaken for something that’s real)
There she goes
Crying again
(Misbelieving that I’m leading you on)
Millions of times I’ve seen a million of tries
To mend a broken heart
(To men a broken heart)
If she’d only see that simply loves just a dream
Of pure imagination
(Pure imagination)
There she goes shedding more tears
(She’s mistaken for something that’s real)
There she goes crying again
(You’re misleading that I’m leading you on)
(Don’t you go crying more tears, girl)
It’ll do you no good, girl listen to me now
(Don’t you go crying more tears, girl)
Dont you go crying for me
(Don’t you go crying more tears, girl)
There she goes
There she goes
She’s crying
(Don’t you go crying more tears, girl)
There she goes
There she goes
There she goes, again
She’s crying, she’s shedding tears, again
(Don’t you go crying more tears, girl)
Again and again and again
She’s crying for me
(Don’t you go crying more tears, girl)
Itll do you no good
Don’t you go
Don’t you go
(Don’t you go crying more tears, girl)
Itll do you no good
Don’t you go
Don’t you go
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