Classic Album Review: OutKast | Speakerboxxx / The Love Below
This came out in 2003 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Some see the glass...
Next Week in Music | Oct. 9-15 • The Short List: 17 Titles You...
One music lover's famine is another's feast. Which is to say: If you're looking for new music from chart-topping superstars next week, you're probably going to go hungry. But...
Next Week in Music | Oct. 9-15 • The Long List: 475+ Releases On...
Johnny Ramone would have turned 75 today. If you never had the pleasure and privilege of seeing The Ramones live, let me assure you they were everything you expected...
Next Week in Music | Oct. 9-15 • New Books
Can you really have too much of a good thing? If you love reading about music, you're about to find out. There are 21 (yes, 21) new books arriving...
Next Week in Music | Oct. 9-15 • On TV
Wilco, Grace Potter and Måneskin visit Jimmy Kimmel, Saturday Night Live returns with Ice Spice, Jenny Lewis goes back to Austin City Limits, Robert Finley is a morning person...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | All Dead, All Dead
I have been guilty of moaning about all these farewell tours, but the sad truth is we're rapidly losing rock 'n' roll's icons. In a few years there won't...
Thunder Pie | Pink Wasp
“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and...
Albums Of The Week: Velvet Two Stripes | No Spell For Moving Water
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Always moving, never stopping, always forward, allied in threes. Velvet Two Stripes are united by a 15-year band history, and still Sophie and Sara Diggelmann...
Albums Of The Week: The Bures Band | Bird’s Nest
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “New in 2023: The Bures Band, a folk-rock / blues / psyche five-piece from Perth, have released their debut album Bird’s Nest, an homage to...
Albums Of The Week: Wide Arches | Farewell To All The Lovely Things
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Wide Arches is the debut singer-songwriter project of Juno-nominated multi-instrumentalist and composer, Jacob Gorzhaltsan. The music of the band draws from Jacob’s early influences —...
Albums Of The Week: The Darkness | Permission To Land… Again (20th Anniversary Edition)
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Permission To Land — the chart-topping, award-winning, multi-platinum debut which arrived on July 7 2003 — The Darkness have...
Albums Of The Week: Dogstar | Somewhere Between the Power Lines and Palm Trees
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Here in 2023, Dogstar epitomize the quintessential Southern California storytelling rock band they’ve always been in their hearts, making resonant music that literally comes from...
Albums Of The Week: Prong | State Of Emergency
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Their fans had to wait six long years for the arrival of a new album by American metal act Prong. Not only because of the...
Albums Of The Week: Lung X Conan Neutron & The Secret Friends | Adult...
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Adult Prom is an example of the magic that can happen when an unlikely pair of bands, bonded more by spirit than by sound, choose...
Albums Of The Week: Heatmiser | The Music of Heatmiser
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Legendary ’90s indie-rock group Heatmiser — Elliott Smith, Neil Gust, Tony Lash and Brandt Peterson — have released The Music of Heatmiser, a 29-song compilation...
