Album Reviews

In the latest Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle offers his illustrated commentary on Lies They Tell Our Children, the new album from Anti-Flag, in his signature six-panel comic strip form. Click on the image for full resolution (best viewed on desktop):

Once branded musical insurrectionists when they burst on the scene in the late sixties, the two surviving members of the Art Ensemble of Chicago (AEC) original quintet, deliver an all-encompassing resurrectionist statement by expanding to a chamber orchestra on this live 2-CD recording, The Sixth Decade, From Paris to Paris.

Price has always been shifting, yet Strays feels like a clear breaking point where she is shaking off labels and trying to find a new/true voice.  

The music town of New Orleans is awash in great artists and one of the longtime supporting acts is stepping out from the shadows as Ernie Vincent’s newest solo album Original Dap King, finds the guitarist/singer (with the help of some friends) getting loose over originals and covers alike. 

The pandemic certainly had an influence on Never Going Under, the latest record from the British-based Circa Waves, but fatherhood clearly had a much bigger influence. Frontman Kieren Shuddall, who also produced the album, became a dad for the first time during the pandemic and you can hear those themes – everything from optimism to […]

Saxophonist and composer Marcus Strickland leads his longstanding Twi-Life quartet in an album of compositions developed during the pandemic lockdown, focused on climate change.

Iggy Pop is never one to sit still for very long. The tanned, shirtless, leather-faced frontman has been playing with his sound for so long that each new album feels like a comeback attempt, but with the solid Every Loser, Pop, and company delivers a smattering of the styles he has used over the years with success and professional sheen. 

In the latest Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle offers his illustrated commentary on Bender, the new album from Isaac Hoskins, in his signature six-panel comic strip form. Click on the image for full resolution (best viewed on desktop):

Covering Beatles songs is certainly not new, not new to jazz, and not even new to the late Ramsey Lewis, who was during the mop head four’s heyday in the mid-sixties.

In the latest Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle offers his illustrated commentary on White Trash Rivalry, the new album from Adeem the Artist, in his signature six-panel comic strip form. Click on the image for full resolution (best viewed on desktop):

Over the course of nearly two decades, Austin-based “stoner metal” band, The Sword, churned out six high octane albums. Though the band decided to call it quits this past October, this year marks the tenth anniversary of their fourth studio LP, Apocryphon. Due to a delay, the tenth anniversary reissue that was originally slated for […]

At the start of track two, “As 4 Me”, MIKE claims to be the “best rapper in the world” and after hearing Beware of the Monkey, it’s a hard claim to refute. 

Since 1996’s Sex, America, Cheap Trick boxed set, fans have been clamoring for this.

The Allman Family Revival Tour now in its sixth iteration, led by Devon Allman, rocked The Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles on December 16, 2022. 

After more than a decade of being out of print, Craft Recordings is reissuing John Lee Hooker’s The Healer on both CD and 180-gram vinyl.

Drivin N Cryin frontman Kevn Kinney steps out with his new solo album ‘Think About It’.

For his debut solo album, multi-instrumentalist Leland Whitty pieced together a masterclass of song craft while still approaching his music with a passionate gusto.

Blue Note Records commemorates what would have been legendary trumpeter Donald Byrd’s 90th birthday on December 9, 2022, with the first-time release of the artist’s live set at Montreux in 1973.

The newest release from Tipitina’s Record Club is Fats Domino’s last public performance, recorded in May 2007 at the historic uptown venue. On Live at Tipitina’s the New Orleans legend performs with his full band and takes on classic cuts that helped define rock and roll. 

In the latest Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle offers his illustrated commentary on Hidden Vigorish, the new album from Nightmarathons, in his signature six-panel comic strip form. Click on the image for full resolution (best viewed on desktop):