Music and Poetry
Music review: Peter Wolf’s “Midnight Souvenirs”
By C.W. Rogers, May 25, 2010
“Midnight Souvenirs,” the latest album from Peter Wolf, is his seventh solo record since his days as front-man for the J. Geils Band and the first since 2002’s widely acclaimed “Sleepless.”
Transference, the new album from Spoon
By Hiram Lee, May 3, 2010
Indie Rock band Spoon’s latest album Transference is a welcome addition to the group’s already impressive catalogue of recordings.
Music review: Yonder Is the Clock by the Felice Brothers
By Dwight Stoll, April 5, 2010
If the Felice Brothers’ album Yonder Is The Clock’s receiving the award for Country album of 2009 from the BBC came as a surprise, it was only because the group is hard to define as a country band...
In a visible voice: Alex Chilton (1950-2010)
By Hiram Lee, March 24, 2010
Alex Chilton, former lead singer of the Box Tops and Big Star, died on March 17 at the age of 59.
Jazz drummer Ed Thigpen dies at 79
By Jesse Werner, February 10, 2010
Jazz drummer Ed Thigpen, best known for his work with the Oscar Peterson Trio, died in mid-January at the age of 79.
Why is Sonic Youth’s The Eternal such a disappointment?
By Hiram Lee, January 8, 2010
The latest album from veteran rock group Sonic Youth is a disappointing work, the least interesting effort from the group since their much heralded return to form with 2002’s Murray Street.
Making the “voice of the people” heard again: 70 years of Topic Records
By Paul Bond, November 10, 2009
The British folk music record label Topic has recently published a 7-CD and book set, Three Score and Ten: A Voice to the People, to mark its 70th anniversary.
Music Review: The Monsters of Folk
By C.W. Rogers, November 6, 2009
The Monsters of Folk is a collaborative “supergroup” composed of Conner Oberst and multi-instrumentalist-producer Mike Mogis of Bright Eyes, Jim James of My Morning Jacket, and singer-songwriter M...
Obituary
Les Paul: A legacy of ground-breaking musical invention
By Tony Cornwell, August 19, 2009
As well as being a beautiful player who never sacrificed musical ideas for flashy displays of technique, Les Paul was responsible for key advances in musical recording techniques.
Gurrumul: an evocative and unique musical contribution
By Tony Cornwell, August 7, 2009
The most remarkable feature of Gurrumul, the recent first album by Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, is this blind Australian indigenous singer’s extraordinary voice.
New York City Opera threatened by economic crisis
By Fred Mazelis, July 9, 2009
The crisis facing the New York City Opera says a great deal about the current state of so-called “high” culture, those sections of the performing arts that are not always or even mostly profitable...
The Michael Jackson memorial: A mostly tawdry affair
By David Walsh, July 8, 2009
A collection of performers, preachers and politicians entertained or addressed a crowd of some 20,000 people in the Staples Center for slightly more than two hours.
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