Next Week in Music | March 25-31, 2019 • New Books
I couldn't read music if you put a gun to my head. But I have no trouble reading about music. Here are the biographies and books due this week:
Classic...
Next Week in Music | March 25-31, 2019 • Music on TV
I know you like to watch. So here's a list of the musicians who will be singing for their supper next week on the boob tube. Of course, everything...
Next Week in Music | March 25-31, 2019 • Birthdays & Anniversaries
I wouldn't want to live in the past. But I still like to visit every now and then. Here are the musical birthdays we'll be celebrating and the anniversaries...
Jonathan Coulton | Some Guys
Move over, Weezer. There's another classic-rock covers album in town. And this one takes things even more seriously. For his latest user-friendly release, singer-songwriter Jonathan Coulton — who has...
Beat Circus | These Wicked Things
Something wicked this way comes. Finally. It's been more than a decade since eclectic and eccentric Boston singer-songwriter Brian Carpenter and his cabaret-rock Beat Circus kicked off their Weird...
Dead Tired | Full Vol.
You can't spell punk without pun. Not this time, anyway. Full Vol., the title of Hamilton hardcore punk hooligans Dead Tired’s latest full-length, not only nods to their balls-out...
Niggght | Violent Delicacy
Yeah, that's right: Three Gs. You got something to say about that, spelling police? Take it up with this Montreal electro-doom blues duo — if you've got the stones....
The Sh-Booms | The Blurred Odyssey
Soul power. As Mr. James Brown informed us way back in the day, it's what you need. What you want. What you got to have. Unfortunately, it's also what...
American Football | American Football (LP3)
Slow and steady win the race. Until they don't. Beloved Midwestern emo stalwarts American Football have long been poster boys for the former concept — after breaking up following the...
Luther Dickinson & Sisters of the Strawberry Moon | Solstice
Collaboration has always been the creative swizzle stick that stirs Luther Dickinson’s musical drink. Over the decades, the singer-guitarist and frontman of North Mississippi Allstars has lent his time...
Orville Peck | Pony
This is not your mom's Masked Singer. Unless your mom is way cooler than I think she is. For those who haven't been paying attention, newcomer Orville Peck has...
Lambchop | This (Is What I Wanted To Tell You)
The news is fake but the drugs are real. Watching surfers while sitting in a Mexican restaurant bar can be amazing. And Michael Jackson would like to inform you...
Strand of Oaks | Eraserland
"I gotta get my shit together before I'm 40," Timothy Showalter sings partway through his latest Strand of Oaks album. He needn't worry. Based on this monumental and magnificent...
Avey Tare | Cows on Hourglass Pond
Animal Collective have never really been my musical drug of choice. And I've sampled more than enough to acquire the habit — I've reviewed most of their major releases...
Mötley Crüe | The Dirt Soundtrack
Let's be honest: That new Netflix biopic of Mötley Crüe looks like it's going to be hilariously and spectacularly shitty. Which is precisely why I'm going to be watching...
