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“I love music, I play every day,” John Lodge says. “I don’t want to let the audience down or myself or the members of my band. They give me 150% every night so I have to be physically and mentally right for them.”
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Read MoreAcclaimed emo band Have Mercy doesn’t deliver much that’s new on their latest LP.
Read MoreA journal that is part travelogue, part music history, and part meditation on the evolution of our culture through the often-bloodshot eyes of one man.
Read MoreAmerican Football’s new album would be a fine effort for anyone but American Football.
Read MoreThere is no doubt that Marc Myers is doing noble work — if only Anatomy of a Song was more exciting to read.
Read MoreIf Real Life Rock‘s page count seems daunting, fear not. There isn’t an entry you’ll want to skip.
Read MoreLambert & Stamp will resonate with musicians who have experienced the volatile give-and-take that is needed to sustain and nurture a rock and roll band.
Read MoreA Hard Day’s Night stands as a landmark in rock history because it exemplifies the Beatles’s joyously innocent starting point — today it delivers an irresistible sonic joy that comes from listening to songs that still rock after fifty years.
Read MoreThe Black Keys clearly wanted to write moody, trippy, mostly hookless tracks, and as far as moody, trippy, mostly hookless tracks go, the ones on Turn Blue aren’t so bad.
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