Rock
To their credit, replacing Freddie Mercury is not something his surviving bandmates have ever tried to do.
Wisely, guitarist John Mayer does not try to copy Jerry Garcia’s memorable licks, solos, tones, and styles.
The Malden resident’s new album is particularly impressive under the circumstances — he suffered a major stroke in January 2016.
The sense of place, the passage of time, the death-haunted imagery, and the coolly rhythmic verse gives Lucinda Williams’s songs their traction.
Lester Bangs insisted that, at its best, rock was an act of pure rebellion, a liberation from the prison of respectability.
The album Northern Passages has left me without any doubt that The Sadies are worthy of every iota of praise they have received.
On the whole, this anthology, along with igniting discussions about sins of omission, will make for entertaining browsing.
So much goes on over the course of Live From the Fox Oakland that the TTB upends the notion of a band “settling” into a sound.
Simplicity is its genius; some call “Roadrunner” the first punk song for a reason.
If there is such a thing as upbeat melancholia, then Jens Lekman has got it down pat.
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