Classic Album Review: Roxy Music | Live
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):
Ah, the summer concert...
Next Week in Music | Oct. 28-Nov. 3 • On TV
This week: Miranda Lambert makes the rounds, Coldplay hit SNL, Wu-Tang storm Stephen Colbert and more. Tune in, turn on and rock out to these artists:
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Kesha | Jimmy Kimmel...
Next Week in Music | Nov. 18-24 • On TV
Gentlemen and ladies, start your PVRs: David Byrne shares his utopian vision, King Princess gives SNL the royal treatment, Kacey Musgraves kicks off the holiday season and more on...
Yonic South | Twix & Dive EP
I know what you're going to say: Hell, I could do that. And you're totally right. You could. Twix & Dive, the latest EP from the noise-making, rule-breaking Italian...
Next Week in Music | Aug. 24-30 • The Short List: 4 Releases Besides...
The biggest album of the week — as far as the pop charts and youngsters are concerned, anyway — will doubtlessly be Katy Perry’s sixth studio release Smile. And...
Albums Of The Week: Obits | Die at the Zoo
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Somewhere between Having Fun With Elvis On Stage and Pat Benatar’s Live from Earth!!, we offer you The Obits’ Die At The Zoo, a 12-song, rip-roaring,...
Van Duren | Waiting: The Van Duren Story Original Documentary Soundtrack
He was in a band with two former members of Big Star. He was produced and managed by Andrew Loog Oldham. He made an album that had people calling...
Albums Of The Week: The Scientists | Negativity
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “The Scientists’ powerful brand of deranged swamp-rock returns with a vengeance on Negativity, a magnum opus featuring the first new music by the Australian band’s...
Back Stories | My Album Reviews From Feb. 11, 2000
Two decades ago, new albums from Primal Scream, Michael Penn, Robert Palmer, Kittie and others were spinning away in my portable CD player. Here’s what I had to say...
Albums Of The Week: Cocktail Slippers | Shout It Out Loud!
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “The Cocktail Slippers, the raucous five-piece all-woman rock outfit from Oslo, Norway, are back with their fifth full-length album and first release in seven years....
Next Week in Music | Aug. 24-30 • The Long List: 500 Titles On...
Nothing attracts a crowd like a crowd. And since this year's twice-delayed Record Store Day finally kicks off its first of three instalments this coming Saturday — assuming some...
Albums Of The Week: The Police | Around The World: Restored & Expanded
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Embarking on their first world tour, The Police journeyed through six continents in 1979 and 1980. Capturing behind–the-scenes footage and candid personal moments as the...
Field Works | Ultrasonic
Well, this is truly a batty notion. For his latest ambient concept piece under the Field Works banner, Indianapolis electronica artist Stuart Hyatt recorded the echolocations of bats —...
Albums Of The Week: Brockhampton | Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Following the commercial success of Ginger and its single Sugar, Brockhampton’s lives were knocked off the tracks as the world shut down last March.
Over the...
Vince Staples | FM!: Nine Malign Lines
"Do you really wanna know about some gangsta shit?" Vince Staples inquires midway through his surprise release FM! It's clearly a rhetorical question. Whether you like it or not,...
