![Elessar Thiessen: Great Blues From an Unlikely Place [Review] [Video]](https://i0.wp.com/guardianlv.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/thiessenglv.jpg?fit=701%2C468&ssl=1 "Elessar Thiessen")
Winnipeg, Manitoba in central Canada is not necessarily the first place most music lovers think of when looking for good blues. In fact, Manitoba’s capital city has developed a thriving and competitive blues scene over the last 30 years. This scene now stands to be put on the map at an international level with one […]
![Tumbler Poised to Be New Pop Sensation With ‘You Said’ [Review]](https://i1.wp.com/guardianlv.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/tumbler1.jpg?fit=701%2C526&ssl=1 "Tumbler")
A father-and-son team from Epsom in the U.K. seems an unlikely prospect to be the next big thing in pop music, but Tumbler seems poised for just that. Father, Richard, and son, Harry Grace, began the project not quite knowing where it would go. With folk-driven pop style and production by Dave Needham, Tumbler released You […]
![Samuel Claiborne’s Debut a Mixture of Blues, Indie and Politics [Review]](https://i1.wp.com/guardianlv.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/claiborn2.jpg?fit=600%2C424&ssl=1 "Samuel Claiborne")
Samuel Claiborne has been writing and playing music in New York City and the Hudson Valley almost all his life. After being published several times, working in bands and making other musical collaborations, Claiborne decided to release his first solo album earlier this year. Love, Lust and Genocide sets his award-winning poetry and prose to music, […]
