Album Review: Wooden Wand’s Blood Oaths of the New Blues
October 1, 2024The listener is held in suspended emotional animation, waiting for a push in one direction or...
Album Review: Foxygen’s We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors Of Peace & Magic
September 25, 2024Just in time for Valentine's Day, here are songs that celebrate life instead of mourning love,...
Album Review: Tegan and Sara’s Heartthrob
September 20, 2024Heartthrob is deeply wounded and most of it is sad. Its emotional palette is reds and...
Life, Death and Hip-Hop
August 12, 2024Within Hip-Hop we discover the struggle of the artist to make sense of their unjust world...
The Funk Brothers
August 10, 2024A few hundred fortunate Californians were sharing a moment of transcendence with the Funk Brothers, the...
The Story of AC/DC by Susan Masino
August 1, 2024Rock biographies, particularly of bands, are an odd subgenre. With an individual singer or instrumentalist, the...
Orchestras, Oboes and Orgies
July 30, 2024"I was honest about my own behavior and that of others, yet stopped short of revealing...
Album Review: This Machine from The Dandy Warhols
July 19, 2024At times it's hard to escape an identity that a band has established over the years,...
Album Review: Dapayk & Padberg’s Sweet Nothings
July 17, 2024Bold, elegant and tender, with enough will towards experimentation to reward repeat listenings enormously this is...
Yesterday is Today: The Pop of Jim Noir
July 16, 2024He makes pop, but to be clear this is a pop so smart and with such...