Thunder Pie | With Angels & Dark Angels
“By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.”
— Cormac McCarthy
Saturday morning I woke up early to get ready for the King. Big...
Next Week in Music | Oct. 17-23 • On TV
The late-night talkers are off this week — I presume some criminally rich thugs, rapists, drug abusers and wife beaters are doing vitally important things with a ball somewhere...
Sonic Reducers | Robert Plant Shares His Stash
As if we don't already have enough good reasons to love Robert Plant, here's another: He recently revealed that he spent his pandemic downtime going through his old music...
Big Star | Live on WLIR
For some weird reason, things almost always seemed to work out for me when it came to Alex Chilton. I was at the Knitting Factory in 1997 when he...
Forest Robots | Exclusive Album & Short Film Premieres
Forest Robots paints a colourful fall landscape with his new album and short film — premiering exclusively (and simultaneously) on Tinnitist.
Times When I Know You'll Watch The Sky, the...
Next Week in Music | Nov. 20-26 • The Long List: 500 Releases On...
Adulthood, according to the meme, is saying, “After this week things will slow down a bit” over and over until you die. Truer words were never spoken. But here's...
Now Hear This | Sparkle Division | To Feel Embraced
I ran out of time and words before I ran out of music to write about this week. So strictly speaking, this isn't a review — but it's definitely...
Thin Lizzy’s Vagabonds Of The Western World Returns For 50th Anniversary
This year marks the 50th anniversary of what is widely regarded as Thin Lizzy’s breakthrough album: Vagabonds Of The Western World, featuring their first U.K. Top 10 single Whiskey...
Classic Album Review: Various Artists | Big Fish Soundtrack
This came out in 2004 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Pearl Jam completists may...
Classic Album Review: George Clinton | Six Degrees of P-Funk
This came out in 2003 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
THE ORIGINAL RELEASE DATES:...
Albums Of The Week: Grandaddy | Sumday: Excess Baggage
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Two decades down the road, influential Modesto indie-rock group Grandaddy unpack the past — and give you a glimpse of the immediate future — with...
Next Week in Music | July 5-11 • On TV
As usual, most of the late-night hosts have a holiday hangover this week. So you'll have to get your televisual music fix from the daytime shift. On the plus...
Classic DVD Review: Popstars | The One: The Official DVD
This came out in 2003 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
And the winner was...
Next Week in Music | January 9-15 • The Long List: 180+ Releases On...
What do David Bowie and Elvis Presley have in common? They were both born on Jan. but 8 — Elvis in 1935 and Bowie in 1947. It's not their...
Next Week in Music | May 2-8 • The Short List: 15 Titles You...
Canadian superstars. Scottish alt-popsters. Japanese garage-punks. Australian indie dudes. British icons. New York undergrounders. American rockers. Variety is definitely the spice of next week's musical gumbo. Bon appetit!
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