Pat Thomas

Desert Daze Unveils 2024 Lineup ft Jack White, Cigarettes After Sex, & More
by Josh Sharpe - Jul 23, 2024

Desert Daze returns October 10 - 13, 2024 to Lake Perris, CA – the gathering’s lakeside home since 2018. The lineup includes Main stage performances from Jack White, No Name; Cigarettes After Sex, Alex G; and more.

Alan Cumming and Ari Shapiro & More Set for Los Angeles Philharmonic The Ford 2024 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 16, 2024

The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association has revealed The Ford’s 2024 season, featuring performances from July 14 to October 31. See who is featured and learn how to purchase tickets.

Wigmore Hall Announces Full Details Of Spring 2023 Concerts
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 12, 2022

Tickets for Wigmore Hall's January – March 2023 concerts go on general sale on Tuesday 1 November, 2022 at 10.00 GMT.

Light in the Attic Announce 'Earl's Closet'
by Michael Major - May 26, 2022

Earl McGrath was the ultimate ’70s jet setter, an art collector and comic bon vivant, who stumbled into the record business and discovered Daryl Hall and John Oates, and later Jim Carroll, while holding court at his legendary salons in Los Angeles and New York. Atlantic founder Ahmet Ertegun gave Earl his own label, Clean Records, in 1970.

D Fine Us Shares 'Bad Luck' Video
by Sarah Jae Leiber - Mar 24, 2021

About Pat Thomas, Tomer says, “our common musical language has helped us to connect the dots and communicate despite the cultural differences, no words were necessary. Pat is an amazing delta blues singer and a true storyteller. I pulled out my harmonica and a bottle of whiskey and started jamming'

LISTEN: Nubiyan Twist's New Single 'Flow'
by Sarah Jae Leiber - Feb 10, 2021

Today, Nubiyan Twist release ‘Flow,’ a reflective, determined neo-soul gem featuring guest vocals from the brilliant Cherise (Jazz FM Vocalist Of The Year 2019).

Nubiyan Twist Share 'Buckle Up' Ahead Of New Album
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 26, 2020

After the huge success of '24-7' and 'Tittle Tattle, Leeds / London collective Nubiyan Twist drop another great new single today. 'Buckle Up' features the rich, soulful vocals of Nick Richards with UK jazz hero Soweto Kinch adding a killer sax solo and rap. The lyrics hone in on facing life's challenges, staying strong and finding 'the door to peace,' a perfect mantra for 2020! The single is taken from the forthcoming album, 'Freedom Fables, out on Strut on 5th February. 

Strut Records Announce Nubiyan Twist February Release
by Sarah Jae Leiber - Sep 22, 2020

Nubiyan Twist return with their brand new album ‘Freedom Fables’ on Strut on 5th February 2021, the follow-up to the acclaimed ‘Jungle Run’ from Spring 2019. 

Onipa Share New Single 'Fire'
by Kaitlin Milligan - Jan 31, 2020

Strut Records set to release Onipa's We No Be Machine on March 20th. 

Strut Records Set To Release Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band's OBIAA!
by Tori Hartshorn - Jul 24, 2019

A new track from Pat Thomas with Kwame Yeboah and Ben Abarbanel-Wolff from Kwashibu Area Band, 'Onfa Nkosi Hwee' warns that stubborness and arrogance lead to dead ends. If you are stubborn, fumbling and messing things up, it won't get you anywhere. Boasting, showing off and bragging on social media is ultimately pointless and has no value.

The Afro Latin Jazz Alliance Presents ALJO + AFROBEAT = FELA!
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 24, 2019

Multi-GRAMMY Award-winning composer/pianist/educator Arturo O'Farrill and the non-profit The Afro Latin Jazz Alliance (ALJA) are thrilled to announce NYC's premier Afrobeat concert of 2019, ALJO + AFROBEAT = FELA!, featuring O'Farrill and his 18-piece Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra (ALJO) alongside Tony Award-Nominated Sahr Ngaujah (lead actor in the Tony-winning Broadway musical, Fela!). Today's singular forbearers of the Afrobeat genre take to the stage with O'Farrill to debut big band jazz arrangements of Fela Anikulapo Kuti's classic works as well as innovative collaborations with special guest artists Wunmi (vocals), Tosin Aribisala (drums/vocals), Bryan Vargas (guitar), and DJ Ausar. Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Fela!'s Broadway premiere in 2009, ALJO + AFROBEAT = FELA! will be presented in the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre @ Symphony Space on January 25 & 26, 2019. Artist interviews are available upon request.

Celebrate the 50th Anniversary Of 1968 War Protests, Beatles & Stones “Revolution' With DID IT!
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 8, 2018

2018 is the 50th Anniversary of the 1968 political riots (led by Jerry Rubin & the Yippies) at the Chicago Democratic Convention. That same week in August saw the release of the Beatles single 'Revolution' and the Rolling Stones '45 'Street Fighting Man' – the perfect protest soundtrack.  

True West Founder Russ Tolman Announces Solo Career Retrospective 'Compass & Map'
by BWW News Desk - May 26, 2017

Whether it's tender acoustic ballads or blistering rock guitar rave-ups, Los Angeles-based-via San Francisco, singer/songwriter/guitarist, Russ Tolman, has developed a reputation for crafting some of the most literate and poignant music in underground rock.

True West Founder Russ Tolman Announces Solo Career Retrospective 'Compass & Map'
by Caryn Robbins - Apr 25, 2017

Whether it's tender acoustic ballads or blistering rock guitar rave-ups, Los Angeles-based-via San Francisco, singer/songwriter/guitarist, Russ Tolman, has developed a reputation for crafting some of the most literate and poignant music in underground rock.

FROM BEHIND THE BLUE LINE is Released
by Christina Mancuso - Aug 16, 2013

'Every so often, you have to step from behind the blue line.' So says Lt. Dylan Akers, an outstanding police officer with a spotless record. The best of friends and the best of police officers, Dylan Akers and Patrolman Beau Rivers graduated from the same class at the police academy. In William Mark's intriguing and realistic story of law enforcement From Behind The Blue Line, the line is slowly and surely blurred as his two protagonists get caught in the vise of ideal versus compromise, of skirting the edges of the law and true justice.