Rock
“Nah Nah Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye” lead singer Gary DeCarlo finally lands the spotlight.
“Maturity, if you’re doing it right, means caring less and less what other people think – you just are who you are.”
Read MoreLucinda Williams is one of the few songwriters who seem to realize the messiness of later life is just as loaded with song angles as the restlessness of youth.
Read MoreWho was this stunning talent with the roof-raising voice and why in the world isn’t she a star, fans would wonder?
Read MoreSome records are snapshots, but Last Danger of Frost is more like a long gaze into a mirror.
Read MoreJason Isbell has got sober, and his songs ring with the urgency of the newly recovered (and newly remarried, to his violinist Amanda Shires).
Read MoreAfter more than four decades, Paul Collins is still keeping The Beat
Read MoreLettuce is in the midst of a headlining tour; on January 22 the group will be back on its old stomping grounds in Boston..
Read MoreI trust Bowie, the way I trust Stevie or Miles or Aretha or Duke or Bach or Debussy or Ornette or Rahsaan or the recently departed Paul Bley.
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Music Review/Commentary: David Bowie’s “Blackstar” and Norbert Stein’s “Das Karussell” — When Words Rule Music
Both David Bowie and Norbert Stein present distinctive and subtle approaches to the hybridizing of poetry and music.
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