Archive: 2015

Lloyd Price is a man who should need no introduction. Getting his start in the 1940’s when he was still just a teenager, the young performer from Kenner, Louisiana released some of the biggest and most widely covered songs of all time. Songs like “Lawdy Miss Clawdy”, “Personality”, and “Stagger Lee” sold millions of copies and […]

[rating=7.00] Steven A. Clark’s debut LP starts off with the sound of someone getting into a car and putting a cassette tape in. The songs on The Lonely Roller play out like an R&B mix tape of heartbreak and loneliness. The album contains musical elements of a wide range of artists from Michael Jackson to […]

Ash goes on a spirit quest, and an old “friend” points Ruby in the right direction.

Remember when Mumford & Sons blew up seemingly out of nowhere and suddenly the masses were acting like folk and bluegrass was this incredible new discovery? Nathaniel Rateliff is just like that, but with soul music. That’s not to say this bearded bandleader isn’t talented and that he didn’t release one of the better albums […]

“Texans, don’t get nervous, there’re a lot of Oklahomans in the house tonight,” JD McPherson quipped to the crowd at the Parish in Austin on Tuesday night. He wasn’t lying either, as this two-night run was spearheaded by Oklahoma natives JD McPherson and the young singer-songwriter Parker Millsap, who hails from Guthrie, OK. The Texans […]

Thanks for ruining Mockingjay, Hollywood!

By not playing to normal Christmas movie expectations, The Night Before becomes a special kind of Christmas movie.

Click bait might be king today, but old school journalism, as depicted in Spotlight, will never be out of fashion.