Next Week in Music | Feb. 5-11 • The Long List: Nearly 300 Releases...
It was 60 years ago next week: On Feb. 9, 1964, The Beatles made their historic American TV debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. More than 73 million people...
Next Week in Music | Feb. 5-11 • New Books
Celebrate 60 years of of Beatlemania, take a trip with Journey, get down with The Bee Gees, get the word from Ralph J. Gleason, enjoy a slice of U2’s...
Next Week in Music | Feb. 5-11 • On TV
Rod Stewart and Jools Holland make the rounds, Idles get busy, Gloria Gaynor has a big week, Future Islands give you something to look forward to, Noah Kahan messes...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Whole Lotta Les
I have been reading Andy Summers’ fantastic memoir One Train Later. It's loaded with stuff I didn't know, including the tidbit that the eventual Police guitarist was the person...
Thunder Pie | My Place in the Pipes
Before my mom and dad divorced, I stumbled into this place in the basement where I could hide and watch. I guess I was 7. Maybe 8. It was...
Albums Of The Week: Kirin J Callinan | If I Could Sing
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Australian artist, actor, writer, provocateur and musician Kirin J Callinan’s new LP If I Could Sing arrives after a long and winding rollout of singles dating...
Albums Of The Week: Ja, Panik | Don’t Play With The Rich Kids
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Ja, Panik are back! Again! The German-Austrian alt-rockers’ last, experimental, exploratory pop album Die Gruppe Ja, Panik (2021) — which meandered in many directions —...
Albums Of The Week: The Hold Steady | Live in Baltimore 2-2-23
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “It was great to be back at the Ottobar for the first time since…maybe 2014? Baltimore has always been a special spot for us. We...
Albums Of The Week: Emanuel Casablanca | Strung Out On Thrills
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Emanuel Casablanca is an outlaw bluesman, a Brooklynite with a brave, modern style and a work ethic like none other. He doesn’t just want to...
Albums Of The Week: Baratro | The Sweet Smell of Unrest
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Baratro was born when guitarist Federico Bonuccelli (Council of Rats) and bassist Dave Curran (Unsane) met at a show in legendary Milan squat Cox18 and...
Albums Of The Week: The Paranoid Style | The Interrogator
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “From the New York Dolls-meets-the-devil opening title track to the desperate Sister Lovers-adjacent finale The Findings, The Interrogator is 13 vibrant, crackling, scary and hilarious...
Albums Of The Week: J. Robbins | Basilisk
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “J. Robbins' second full-length solo album Basilisk is out now on Dischord Records. Basilisk contains 11 songs recorded at Robbins’ Baltimore studio The Magpie Cage...
Albums Of The Week: Slope | Freak Dreams
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Five guys fight the 9-to-5 life. They're not attracted to the regular. It’s a 360° funk vision.
With their pure and honest hardcore/punk attitude, fused with...
Albums Of The Week: Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry | King Perry
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Record producer, composer, singer, and dub pioneer Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry passed away in August 2021. His influence over popular music since the 1970s is hugely...
Albums Of The Week: Britti | Hello, I’m Britti.
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Singer-songwriter Britti — born Brittany Guerin in Baton Rouge; reborn in and proudly repping New Orleans now — isn’t defined by genre as much as...
