Next Week in Music | Feb. 10-16 • On TV
Green Day visit Corden, Wale does some Daily duty, Bonny Light Horseman ride in to rescue Saturday morning and more acts coming to the small screen this week. Set...
Classic Album Review: The B-52’s | Nude On The Moon: The B-52’s Anthology
This came out in 2002 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Some people remember The...
Classic Album Review: Echo & the Bunnymen | Live in Liverpool
This came out in 2002 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
When it comes to...
Classic Album Review: The Soft Boys | Underwater Moonlight … And How it Got...
This came out in 2001 — or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
As the story goes,...
Back Stories | My Album Reviews From Dec. 31, 1999
Two decades ago, new albums from Buddy and Julie Miller, Goodie Mob, Armand Van Helden and others were spinning away in my portable CD player. Here’s what I had...
Frank Zappa & The Mothers | The Mothers 1970
Sometimes a little goes a long way. Case in point: Frank Zappa’s 1970 incarnation of The Mothers. The short-lived lineup (and the first to use the abridged band name)...
Jeff The Brotherhood | Magick Songs
One of the joys of working for yourself is that you can do pretty much whatever you want, however you want, whenever you want. That level of freedom might...
SubmitHub Finds for Tuesday, March 26
I recently joined SubmitHub, a site where artists pay a small fee to send songs to reviewers, labels, bloggers and radio stations. I'm trying it out to see if...
Late-Night TV Music (Diversity Edition) | Nov. 13, 2018
Diversity is always a good thing. And diversity is exactly what you got from Tuesday's late-night TV music lineup, which veered wildly from proggy art-rock to down-home country and...
Six Songs To Hear Today | Sept. 25, 2018
Another day, another batch of tunes to help you get through it. Here's a six-pack of new songs:
1 | I have written about John Hiatt's upcoming album The Eclipse...
Tap To The Rhythm In Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage
Mobile rhythm game Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage is now available for global audiences to download on iOS and Android devices. The free-to-play game, fully voiced in Japanese with English...
Back Stories | My Album Reviews From Nov. 5, 1999
Two decades ago, new albums from Foo Fighters, Bush, XTC and others were spinning away in my portable CD player. Here’s what I had to say about them back...
Hozier | Wasteland, Baby!
Five years ago, Hozier asked everyone to take him to church — and millions of fans around the world were happy to oblige. Then the Irish singer-songwriter born Andrew...
Albums Of The Week: Vapors Of Morphine | Fear & Fantasy
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Vapors of Morphine perform the music of ‘low rock’ pioneers Morphine, utilizing the ethereal, hypnotic and expansive sounds popularized in the ’90sby late singer-bassist Mark...
Next Week in Music | May 20-26, 2019 • New Books
If writing about music is like dancing about architecture, does that make reading about music like juggling about engineering? I don't know. But I do know that these biographies,...
