Next Week in Music | May 29 – June 4 • The Long List:...
Are you ready to rock — and reminisce? Well, get ready: The US Festival kicked off exactly 40 years ago, on May 28, 1983.
For those too young (or too...
Next Week in Music | May 29 – June 4 • New Books
Mamas and Papas, art and soul, Dante and ducktails, Bleecker Street and The Beatles — and the rest of the new tomes of the week. Read all about ’em:
All...
Next Week in Music | May 29 – June 4 • On TV
The writers' strike continues. So do the reruns. Enjoy (or not):
Monday
Sunny War (R) | Jimmy Kimmel Live
De La Soul (R) | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Sturgill Simpson (R)...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Save My Babies!
What you're looking at here is my 100th Stylus Counsel column. It's a fairly significant number, so I decided I should commemorate it with a fairly significant piece. Thanks...
Thunder Pie | Dame’s Rocket
In my part of Pennsylvania, the Dame’s Rocket is out. On various roads/ I zip by small waves of it on rolling hillsides/ the whites and the pinks and...
Albums Of The Week: Wolf Eyes | Dreams In Splattered Lines
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Dreams In Splattered Lines fuses together Wolf Eyes’ 25 years of DIY electronics with the avant-garde sensibilities of Fluxus and the granite of dreary Midwestern...
Albums Of The Week: The Bevis Frond | Long Stuff
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “The Long Stuff was originally issued in 2002 as a CD-only limited edition of 110 copies for members of The Bevis Frond Online Community. It...
Albums Of The Week: Sweat | Who Do They Think They Are?
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Who Do They Think They Are? is the debut album from Pittsburgh-based Swiss-American quartet Sweat.
The backstory: After leaving her home in Basel with a hungry...
Albums Of The Week: Kevin Morby | More Photographs (A Continuum)
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Kevin Morby writes (and records, and imagines) at an almost incomparable clip, and his most recent album, This Is A Photograph, studies life, time and...
Albums Of The Week: Live Skull | Party Zero
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Insurrections. Global pandemics. The return of fascism. Climate crises. These are some serious times. But if you’ve got angst in your pants and you need...
Albums Of The Week: The Barnestormers | The Barnestormers
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “What you have right here is rockabilly royalty. They’re global all-stars who swing like a gate. They make the finest finger-poppin’ grooves to shake your...
Albums Of The Week: Arlo Parks | My Soft Machine
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Grammy-nominated, Mercury Prize and BRIT Award-winning artist Arlo Parks is returning with her second album My Soft Machine, a deeply personal body of work about...
Albums Of The Week: Joe Perry | Sweetzerland Manifesto MKII
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductee and Grammy winner Joe Perry — the lead guitarist, songwriter, and co-producer of Aerosmith and Hollywood Vampires —...
Albums Of The Week: The Dirty Nil | Free Rein To Passions
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “If there’s one rule people should follow when approaching The Dirty Nil, it’s this: Never tell them how to rock ’‘n’ roll. Ontario’s Juno-winning trio...
Albums Of The Week: Sparks | The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte marks Sparks’ first release on the venerable Island Records label in close to five decades, following such classics...
