Next Week in Music | April 22-28 • The Short List: 7 Titles You...
Unsurprisingly, things have slowed down a bit after Record Store Day. But only a bit: By my count, there are still at least seven excellent albums coming your way...
Next Week in Music | April 22-28 • The Long List: 475 Releases On...
I predict you're going to hear and read a lot about Prince today. Why? Because the provocative, diminutive genius died eight years ago — on April 21, 2016 —...
Next Week in Music | April 22-28 • 11 New Books
Bluegrass kings, teen pop idols, psycho killers (qu'est ce que c'est), Britpop stars, the women of punk, and deep dives into dozens of classic albums — here's what you've...
Next Week in Music | April 22-28 • On TV
With the exception of insatiable workaholic Jimmy Kimmel, the late-night chit-chatters are in time-out this week. Not sure why. Good thing the daytimers — and the documentarians, interestingly enough...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Vive La Différence!
From Grade 7 through to high school graduation, I was a French-immersion kid. That means more than half my day was in French. I learned grammar and vocabulary, of...
Thunder Pie | Band Rides West
“As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none.”
— Neil Young
In a parking lot somewhere in Texas, I popped the ash tray out of its socket. The...
Albums Of The Week: Various Artists | Mejor de Los Nuggetz: ’60s Garage &...
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Mejor de Los Nuggetz is a collection of Spanish-language interpretations of many of the biggest hits of the 1960s, performed during that era by a...
Albums Of The Week: Valley Lodge | Shadows in Paradise
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “New York City power pop band Valley Lodge are back, rising like a phoenix — or some other bird that bursts into flames for no...
Albums Of The Week: Pillow Queens | Name Your Sorrow
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “There comes a point when every band finds themselves in a new place on the horizon. The precocious snarls of youth gone, the invincibility of...
Albums Of The Week: Ian Hunter | Defiance Part 2: Fiction
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Defiance Part 2: Fiction sees legendary singer-songwriter, author, and rock ’n’ roll star Ian Hunter following up last year’s Part 1 with a second collection...
Albums Of The Week: Grateful Dead | From The Mars Hotel: The Angel’s Share
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “With the surprise release of From The Mars Hotel: The Angel's Share, the Grateful Dead vaults have once again been opened.
Featuring 16 newly unearthed session...
Albums Of The Week: Glen Campbell | Duets: Ghost On The Canvas Sessions
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Glen Campbell’s Duets: Ghost On The Canvas Sessions reimagines the late singer-songwriter and guitarist’s critically acclaimed, history-making 2011 farewell album with some of the biggest...
Albums Of The Week: T Bone Burnett | The Other Side
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Grammy and Oscar winner T Bone Burnett returns to his roots as a singer-songwriter on The Other Side, delving deeply into the myriad genres of...
Albums Of The Week: Lucy Rose | This Ain’t The Way You Go Out
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “British musician Lucy Rose released a third album, No Words Left, back in 2019. It garnered the strongest critical acclaim of her career and culminated...
Zappa & Mothers Storm Sunset Strip For Next Vault Release
The hand-scrawled ad in the L.A. Free Press — an open invitation to Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention’s all-night affair at one of their favorite venues, L.A.’s...
