Area Resident’s Classic Album Reviews: Syd Barrett | The Madcap Laughs & Barrett
Here are two albums I desperately wanted to define me at 17. Good gawd. Thirty years on, I intend to go through Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett’s two stark,...
Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
For a few years, around 15 years ago, I became a Soka Gakkai Buddhist to appease my ex-wife. Suddenly my music was full of references to the Lotus Sutra...
Next Week in Music | Dec. 12-18 • The Short List: 3 Titles You...
We are getting down the short strokes here, people. With just 150 new releases on the way, the pickin's are getting mighty slim. But I did find a trio...
Next Week in Music | Dec. 12-18 • The Long List: 150 Releases On...
Sometimes less is more. Sometimes less is less. One of those applies to the 150 albums, EPs, singles, box sets, compilations, anthologies, retrospectives, soundtracks, vinyl reissues and cassettes arriving...
Next Week in Music | Dec. 12-18 • New Books
From Sir Paul to Saint Etienne and Bob Dylan to Boy George, your musical reading options continue to cover the musical waterfront. Here are next week's arrivals:
The McCartney Legacy:...
Next Week in Music | Dec. 12-18 • On TV
Lizzo gives you a reason to watch (or at least record) SNL, Wet Leg visit Seth and Bonny Light Horseman improve your Saturday morning — but Jimmy Kimmel is clearly...
Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
Choosing the right producer for an album is almost as critical as the strength of the songwriting. That said, a good producer should be one with the ability —...
Thunder Pie | The Young Stoners
Endless prairie.
We were together once, you and me.
Tied-up dogs barking at the rising sun.
At 17, the bowl I had was dug out of an old hollowed out deer antler....
Albums Of The Week: Desumanos | Desumanos
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Desumanos’ fresh mixture of guitar driven melodies is as evocative as it is playful.
From their native Brazil, the band casts uncompromising surf scents on a...
Albums Of The Week: The Whiskey Foundation | Leisure
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “The Whiskey Foundation create sound that carries you away. Away into an era that no longer exists, away to places that probably only exist in...
Albums Of The Week: Harvey Mandel | Who’s Calling
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Harvey Mandel is among the most innovative guitarists to emerge from the Chicago blues scene of the late 1960s. His career began at Twist City...
Albums Of The Week: Salvation | Mock
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “The fourth release from Chicago trio Salvation, Mock is a masterpiece of dark, raucous, noise-rock. Oozing with soul, crackling with danger, Mock churns along in...
Albums Of The Week: The Midnight Kings | Last Chance to Dance
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “It was 10 years ago that the rowdy but ever-elegant Midnight Kings made their stage debut. Since then, these unlikely monarchs of rhythm ’n’ blues...
Albums Of The Week: Desperate Living | Shame
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Noise-rock grime and punk rock exuberance unite on Desperate Living’s new EP Shame. Wild-eyed vocals and sludgy tones bring to mind the likes of Unsane...
Albums Of The Week: Ghost Forest | Ghost Forest
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Chiacago trio Ghost Forest — drummer James Kimball (The Laughing Hyenas, Mule), vocalist and guitarist Scott “Gub” Conway (Gauge, Even in Blackouts), and vocalist and...
