Scott McLennan

Album Review: The Tedeschi Trucks Band’s “I Am the Moon” — Part Four, “Farewell”

August 21, 2022
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“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.

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Rock Preview: Gov’t Mule — Very Much on the Move

August 7, 2022
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“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.”

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Album Review: The Tedeschi Trucks Band’s “I Am the Moon” — Part Three, “The Fall”

July 25, 2022
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“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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Concert Review: Puscifer in Boston — Out of This World

June 30, 2022
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Puscifer pulled off a great show of rock ’n’ roll farce, and that is saying something considering that the daily news feels ever more like scripted buffoonery.

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Album Review: The Tedeschi Trucks Band’s “I Am the Moon” — Part Two, “Ascension”

June 27, 2022
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The high quality of the material presented thus far justifies Tedeschi Trucks Band’s decision to release these songs in small batches over the course of three months.

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Concert Review: Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway Dazzle at The Sinclair in Cambridge

June 25, 2022
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The brilliant set was a celebratory exploration of Molly Tuttle’s bluegrass roots, albeit with a fresh perspective.

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Music Feature: Neighbor Comes into Its Own

June 14, 2022
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The band Neighbor isn’t reinventing the wheel, but it’s not getting steamrolled by it either.

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Rock Album Review: Cave In’s “Heavy Pendulum” — Covering the Battlefield from Both Sides

May 20, 2022
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Cave In’s new album is more than a return to form — it is a surging breakthrough.

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Rock Album Review: The Gravel Project — An Impressive Musical Reach

April 20, 2022
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The Gravel Project respects its roots, but its new album demonstrates how a band can honor its influences without being smothered by them.

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Music Interview: Cowboy Junkies’ Michael Timmins on “Songs of the Recollection”

April 10, 2022
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“I may second guess how a song was recorded. But I can say that all that we have done has come from an honest place.”

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