Rock
“It was an unusual time in music when the-powers-that-be were very hands-off. They left the art to the artists.”
Read MoreClassic rock (which is really a radio format, not a musical genre) is a strange animal, which has spawned an audience that apparently cares more about hit songs and memories than about who’s actually onstage.
Read MoreEven by Widespread Panic’s intuitive standards, this was a fairly challenging show: The setlist seemed to favor their deeper, less outgoing material.
Read MoreThere have been three pop LPs this year that I’ve really been digging: they are gloriously wacky.
Read MoreThese challenging LPs offer opposing, but equally thrilling, aural/cinematic adventures: one is an overblown grindhouse flick, the other a wondrous fantasy feature.
Read MoreMichael Nesmith’s proto-Americana songs had aged the least—listen to the jangly guitar and stream-of-conscious lyric on “Tapioca Tundra” and you’d swear that was where R.E.M. got the idea.
Read MoreThe tunes on Joey Pizza Slice’s new LP are personal enough to leave many listeners scratching their heads, asking “Is this guy for real?”
Read MoreWhether it was intended or not, Searching for Sugar Man did more than delve into the past of Sixto Rodriguez; it created his future.
Read MoreThe band was still Television and often as not, still magnificent.
Read MoreI love an album that ends with a bang – and The Swans’ To Be Kind ends with four.
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