Back Stories | My Album Reviews From July 23, 1999
Two decades ago, new albums and compilations from Grand Funk, Ween and others were spinning away in my portable CD player. Here’s what I had to say about them...
Short Subjects | Three Recent EPs That Won’t Waste Your Time
There's a good reason major-label music releases taper off in the summer: Most people have better things to do than sit and listen to a jillion albums. With that...
Next Week in Music | July 22-28 • 160 New Releases Headed Your Way
It's another one of those weird weeks: There are a shit-ton of new albums, EPs and singles dropping this week, but aside from Chance the Rapper’s debut album The...
Next Week in Music | July 22-28 • New Books
If I'm not listening to music, writing about music, or watching music, I'm usually reading about it. But now, I could also be colouring music! And so could you....
Next Week in Music | July 22-28 • Music on TV
There are only a few artists gracing the airwaves this week — but at least a few of them seem fairly interesting. Here's the lineup:
Monday
Tal Wilkenfeld | Jimmy Kimmel...
Have Gun, Will Travel | Strange Chemistry
WHO ARE THEY? An Americana quintet from Tampa who borrowed their name from a classic Western series — and borrowed a large measure of their sound from fellow Floridians...
Purple Mountains | Purple Mountains
WHO IS HE? Indie-rock singer-songwriter David Berman, the former Silver Jews leader who retreated from music in 2009, saying he wanted to a) "stop before (he) got bad," and...
Ada Lea | What We Say in Private
WHO IS SHE? A Montreal indie-rock singer-songwriter who is also a painter and visual artist.
WHAT IS THIS? Her outstanding and distinctive debut album, which grew out of a tortuous...
Chinatown Slalom | Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?
WHO ARE THEY? An up-and-coming Liverpool quartet who reportedly reside in a raucous party house down the street from where one of The Beatles grew up — which is...
Throwaway | What?
WHO ARE THEY? Remember The Gong Show? Remember The Unknown Comic? The guy who told jokes with a paper bag over his head? This is sorta like that. Except...
Wild Billy Childish & CTMF | Last Punk Standing
WHO ARE THEY? The ridiculously prolific English singer-guitarist — who is also a painter, writer, poet, photographer, filmmaker, rabble-rouser, iconoclast and all-around shit-disturber when he isn't making music with...
Violent Femmes | Hotel Last Resort
WHO ARE THEY? The Milwaukee folk-punk oddballs who debuted more than 35 years ago with the immortal cuts Blister in the Sun and Gone Daddy Gone — and who...
Brian Eno | Apollo: Atmospheres And Soundtracks Extended Edition
WHO IS HE? The onetime Roxy Music keyboardist, longtime ambient soundscapist and visionary superstar producer of U2, Talking Heads, Devo and others — accompanied here by his multi-instrumentalist brother...
Mike Love | 12 Sides of Summer
WHO IS HE? The Beach Boys’ co-founding vocalist, longtime live frontman, frequently overlooked songwriting contributor and more outspoken yang to the introverted yin of cousin, collaborator and sometime competitor...
Replacements, Blink, Goo Goos & More Announce Upcoming Releases
It's another big day on the fall album calendar — assuming you care about new releases from pop-punk vets, singer-songwriter supergroups, Canadian country stars, classic rockers and pretty much...
