Having just read Eddie Floyd’s autobiography My Life in Soul, it seems like no two pages went by, certainly in the Stax-oriented chapters, without seeing Steve Cropper’s name. Someone has
Around the metallic chugging down strums of “I Met The Stones” J Mascis delivers the keynote to Dinosaur Jr.’s excellent new release Sweep It Into Space. The laconic lyric is
When one lives in town with the name of Poetry, TX he/she needs to live up to that name, not that it is reserved for poets, writers, and songwriters but
In the latest Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle offers his illustrated commentary on [Laughs], the new album from Kali Masi, in his signature six-panel comic strip form. Click on the image for full
Readers of these pages caught a few words about the hip-hop-influenced progressive UK jazz artist Alfa Mist when we covered his contribution to last Fall’s double-disc Blue Note Re-imagined. Now
After lineup expansions and hiatuses, the original trio of Garage A Trois has returned with an excellent new studio album, Calm Down Cologne. Recorded in just one session at Pearl
It’s taken a handful of records and a seemingly lifetime of heartache and personal misfortunes crammed into a few short years for DL Rossi to evolve into a remarkable singer/songwriter
Darla Records is recognizing the twentieth anniversary of My Morning Jacket’s At Dawn in much the same fashion the label afforded the milestone of the band’s debut The Tennessee Fire.
Firefly is multi-reedist Alexa Tarantino’s third album for the Posi-tone label, following her excellent 2020 Clarity and 2018’s Winds of Change. This writer put Clarity on the year’s best list
When Sharon Van Etten’s second album, epic dropped in 2010, only a year after her debut, the response was surprisingly muted. Although critics noted the strength of its lyricism, composition
