In recent years, the status of the Who has risen dramatically in the hierarchy of contemporary rock and rightly so. The ascent began with a greater appreciation of Quadrophenia, the
The Rise & Fall of Loverboy, the third album from Southern California band Sir Sly, delivers an upbeat amalgamation of rock, electronica, and hip-hop that straddles the line between pop entertainment and
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
Rating: B What’s immediately apparent about Beast Beast, the feature debut from writer/director Danny Madden, is that it’s a film with a lot of heart. Madden is a filmmaker with
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
