The origins of an artist’s moniker don’t always resonate with the nature of the material itself, but London-by-way-of-Canada singer Al Spx’s Cold Specks seems born of a perfectly appropriate passage. Here’s the line she pulled from James Joyce’s Ulysses: “Born all in the dark wormy earth, cold specks of fire, evil, lights shining in the … Read more
The souls of Johnny Cash and Son House live on in this a cappella performance on Jools Holland tonight, in which Cold Specks’ Al Spx becomes “one to watch” in just 2 minutes and change with this cover of “Old Stepstone.” The song speaks for itself above.
TwentyFourBit is an independent music news and discovery site I founded in 2009. Years earlier, the idea came up after a solo gig at CBGB, where the postered walls of that late venue recalled a time when fellow artists — more than traditional media outlets — led their own conversation on the future state of music. … Read more