Bob Dylan is one layered fella. The singer, musician, writer and artist contains multitudes. He tells us so on his 39th studio album “Rough and Rowdy Ways” released June 19 via his longtime company Columbia […]
Category: Music Reviews
Album and song reviews
Run The Jewels Combine Classic Strength And Style On ‘RTJ4’
The 1987 Buick Grand National was a badass car. I was obsessed with it when I was in high school. My first car was a 1990 Buick Regal coupe, which was my grandmother’s car, and […]
The Weeknd Takes Listeners On A Sojourn Into A Sinful Soul
“When the music’s over, turn out the lights.” – Jim Morrison of The Doors, “When The Music’s Over” “We can’t stop here, this is bat country.” – Hunter S. Thompson, “Fear and Loathing in Las […]
Thundercat Explores Introspective Space On ‘It Is What It Is’
“Have you heard of Thundercat? I’ve been listening to the album ‘Drunk’ on YouTube and it’s weird as fuck. I think you’ll like it.” That’s how Cousin Mike introduced me to Thundercat. “Drunk,” Thundercat’s third […]
Tycho Creates Wordless Companion With ‘Simulcast’
Throughout this pandemic, I, like everyone has, have been doing a lot of things at home. This includes working and working out, reading and writing. One companion through it all has been Tycho. The San […]
Jay Electronica Delivers A Deeply Devoted Debut Album
Can you imaging waiting more than a decade to release your debut album and then a global pandemic basically shuts down all the promotion you had planned? That’s exactly what happened to Jay Electronica. The […]
Circa Waves Surges With Emotion On ‘Sad Happy’
Lately, I have been thinking about paradoxes. Maybe going on nine weeks of Covid-19 stay-at-home orders has gotten to me. But I’ve had something of a Taoist expression rattling around in my head – “It’s […]
Lukas Nelson and Promise Of The Real Deliver Raw Unprocessed Tunes On ‘Naked Garden’
Like music, these album reviews are a process of discovery. Just like the musicians making the music, I am kind of finding my way as I go along and chip away at the music and […]
Stephen Malkmus Uses ‘Traditional Techniques’ To Break The Modern Mold
As people across the world are going into quarantine and looking for new things to do, people are turning to more conventional ways of passing the time. I don’t know about you, but I have […]
Phantogram Lets It All Go On ‘Ceremony’
Have you ever seen the big old vases in a museum that have been repaired with gold? I’m vaguely familiar with the Japanese concept of Kintsugi 金継ぎ. By fixing ceramics using this method, the repair […]