Scott McLennan
Claypool Gold tour turns Leader Bank Pavilion into a shifting laboratory of psychedelia, satire, and virtuosic groove.
The jam band’s most thematically focused album yet turns digital overload into anxious, shape-shifting rock.
At Indian Ranch, Little Feat balances nostalgia and renewal in a high-caliber stop on its “Last Farewell Tour.”
A decade after “Fever Daydream,” the band’s return transforms moody electronics into a surging, physical spectacle.
A long-shelved session reveals a master blending blues with global grooves and undimmed vitality.
The Claypool Lennon Delirium release a surreal, sharp-edged concept album about empathy, algorithms, and the high cost of efficiency.
The messaging and its delivery were never self-righteous — Puscifer provoked rather than preached.
“Future Soul” is an exercise in creating maximum accessibility without reducing the band’s extraordinary musicianship.
Puscifer is alarmed that so many values, including bedrock rights, are under attack, with real people getting hurt (in some cases killed) in the process.
“Turn a Midnight Corner” is one of those records that has the right mix of risk and guile. It doesn’t so much tell a story as summon one, track by track.
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