Albums Of The Week: Blood, Sweat & Tears | What The Hell Happened To...
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “In 1970, Blood, Sweat & Tears were arguably the hottest band in America. Their second album, the eponymously titled Blood, Sweat & Tears, had recently...
Indie Roundup | Six New Songs & 1 Doc to Check Out Today
Arctic Monkeys check in, Ty Segall declares war, Krowns fake it to make it, Rob Moir hits the road and more in today's Roundup. Let's make it happen, captain:
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Broken Social Scene | Let’s Try the After Vol. 2
Well, you can't accuse them of not delivering the goods. In every sense of the term. It hasn't even been two months since Broken Social Scene released Let's Try...
20 Questions With Carolyn Fe
A couple of weeks back, singer-songwriter and actress Carolyn Fe was kind enough to share her latest release Jerusalem's Thorns: Civilian Remix with me. You can (and certainly should)...
Dave Alvin | King of California 25th Anniversary Edition
WHO IS HE? The singer-songwriter and guitar-slinger with the woodsmoke voice who got his start with brother Phil in L.A. retro-rockers The Blasters, then went on to a storied...
Area Resident’s Classic Album Review: Thomas Dolby | Blinded By Science EP
This album — EP, actually — first came into my life when my older brother borrowed it from a high school friend not long after it came out. I...
Albums Of The Week: Jim White | Misfit’s Jubilee
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: "The ever-elusive Americana maverick Jim White has returned with Misfit's Jubilee, his most upbeat, hallucinogenic record to date. Known for his catalog of dark ruminations...
Etuk Ubong | Africa Today
What's more impressive than an album that delivers a colourfully dynamic, urgently driving and lyrically topical hybrid of Afrobeat, Highlife and more — as performed by crack band fronted...
Albums Of The Week: Bob Dylan | Springtime In New York: The Bootleg Series,...
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “The 16th chapter in Bob Dylan’s highly acclaimed Bootleg Series, Springtime In New York revisits an often-forgotten, rich vein in Dylan’s vast and complex catalog,...
Classic Album Review: Lou Reed | American Poet
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):
How many songs has...
Back Stories | My Album Reviews From Jan. 29, 1999
Two decades ago, new albums from Fun Lovin' Criminals, Chuck E. Weiss, Cesar Rosas and others were spinning away in my portable CD player. Here’s what I had to...
Albums Of The Week: Bomba Estéreo | Deja
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Bomba Estéreo’s new album Deja is the band's long-awaited first album in four years. Deja is about leaving behind the unnecessary baggage in our lives...
C Z A R I N A | The Valkyrie (Immigrant Song): Exclusive Premiere
C Z A R I N A wields the hammer of the goddess in her epic upgrade of Led Zeppelin’s classic Immigrant Song — premiering exclusively on Tinnitist.
The latest...
Albums Of The Week: Country Westerns | Forgive The City
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Work harder, not smarter: classically bad advice, but when it works, it works. And it works for Country Westerns. They are more than a band....
Albums Of The Week: Kelley Stoltz | The Stylist
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “The Stylist, veteran singer-songwriter's Kelley Stoltz’s 17th album, finds him following up the Third Man Records reissue of his 2001 Antique Glow with a collection of...
