
Island Mele: ‘Makaha Sons Memoirs’
Jerome Koko has gone in a new direction and partnered with Grammy Award-winning producer/recording artist Daniel Ho.
Jerome Koko has gone in a new direction and partnered with Grammy Award-winning producer/recording artist Daniel Ho.
Jake Shimabukuro’s newest album starts off in a familiar mode, but there are many surprises among the 16 featured tracks.
Na Hoku Hanohano Award-winner Chad Takatsugi has an important place in modern Hawaiian music as a member of ‘Ale’a.
Sean Na’auao’s new album is a throwback to the bad old days — it doesn’t even have composers’ credits, let alone lyrics and translations.
Crimson Apple is off to a very promising start with their aptly titled debut album.
Rebecca Beralas uses a variety of sounds as the building blocks for her new album.
Guitarist Lee Eisenstein works his instrumental magic on an assortment of standards and originals.
Comedian Frank De Lima and his partner in parodies, composer/lyricist Patrick Downes, take aim at homegrown NFL star Marcus Mariota.
Pati is back, working with new producers and signed to a different label, but his voice as soulful as ever.
Revisiting old material is something all veteran artists are entitled to do as the years go by.
PeniDean’s second single since leaving Natural Vibrations continues to build the momentum necessary to complete a run of all-new island-style reggae.
Maui-resident reggae veteran Marty Dread presents his song protesting construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on Mauna Kea.
This new single is a quantum leap towards adulthood for teenage recording artist Aidan James.
“Sweet Pualeinani” is the latest single by Natalie Ai Kamauu and features Hoku Zuttermeister on the track.
Although Lehua Kalima is still a member of Na Leo she is also a successful solo artist.
Members of the iconic SoCal surf/punk rock group Surf Punks in the late 1970s and early 1980s return with a new take on their early work.
“The Citadel” lives up to the high expectations set by two previous Tin Idol projects.
The talents of more than two dozen musicians, vocalists and songwriters are on display in this 16-song compilation album.
On “Upcountry Boy,” Valley Isle reggae stalwart Marty Dread integrates Afro-Caribbean rhythms and other musical genres into country songs.
Bryan Tolentino and Herb Ohta Jr. team up on an assortment of Hawaiian, hapa-haole and American pop standards with “Ukulele Friends.”
L ‘Escargot — Mimi Hafele, Duane Padilla and Pierre Grill — celebrate Edith Piaf’s birth centennial with a 12-song CD.
Kamauu has one of the most beautiful voices in contemporary Hawaiian music and her choice of songs shows it off perfectly.
“He Inoa” is certainly one of the front runners for Na Hoku Hanohano Award honors in 2016.
Tim Rose’s lyrics reaffirm his range as an insightful writer on an assortment of subjects.
Thomson Palakiko Enos debuts as a producer with a project that involves a long list of other local artists.