Scott McLennan
Our music critics pick some of the standout albums and performances of 2022.
Read MoreAs fluid and experimental as Eight Dream Interpretations is, the album’s rambunctious sonic palette is nothing if not inviting.
Read MoreThe point of Bob Dylan’s project is emotional rather than definitive: to probe the power of song to influence us, make us feel, and ultimately transform us.
Read MoreAs the age of Covid-19 more or less wanes, Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.
Read MoreFor all of the music’s fury, protest, anguish, and raw brutality, Tattoo the Earth was a lovefest.
Read MoreThere’s little doubt at this point regarding the 26-year-old guitarist’s talent for pulling multiple influences into one cohesive, original sound.
Read More“Farewell” is the shortest album in the series, but it is perhaps the most provocative in the way it calmly muses, philosophically, on the form that togetherness can take – as it exists and as it dissolves.
Read More“One of the positives to come out of this whole [pandemic lockdown] experience is that everyone found out what is important in their lives. Those of us who love music realized just how special it is.”
Read More“Episode III. The Fall” is the most thematically focused installment in the four-part I Am the Moon saga so far.
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Arts Remembrance: David Crosby — One More Link to Rock ’n’ Roll’s Golden Era Lost
When I glorify or romanticize an artist like David Crosby it is because the performer has a gift for alchemizing songs into something huge, powerful, spiritual, and communal.
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