IN 1965, Robyn Hitchcock, age 12, became infatuated with the literature of science fiction pioneer H.G. Wells. Duly inspired by such classics as The Invisible Man, The War Of The Worlds, and particularly The Time Machine, the British adolescent set […]
“I’m not good at multi-tasking,” Jill Sobule insists. “I’m like, one thing at a time. I’m just not used to it! I’ve got to get my organizational skills down better, that’s what it is.” Despite her contention, Sobule is more […]
Sometimes being confronted with a limited number of resources when making an album can be a good thing. Amy Correia is a case in point. Unlike her 2000 full-length debut Carnival Love, which was made with an extravagant budget and […]
When Laurie Stirratt launched her new life in 2002, it was like going home. Chicago welcomed her like a prodigal daughter, she got a job at the Hideout (a favorite watering hole among Chicago music scenesters), and she began writing […]
As the keyboardist for Nick Lowe’s Impossible Birds and as the opening act on Lowe’s recent swing through the United States, Geraint Watkins has made a strong musical impression. Yet the Welsh native recognizes his name is easy to forget, […]
It’s so succinct and sweet that it goes by in the blink of an eye, the title track of Hem’s new disc, Eveningland. Clocking in at 1 minute and 1 second, it begins with the lonesome drone of a clarinet, […]
Politics and music: Readers’ responses You have previously published both demographic and anecdotal information about how educated and intelligent your readership is. Don’t you think we’re capable of making up our own minds on presidential question? How many of us […]
84-year-old Wallace Horn slips on his earphones and swivels his well-worn chair toward a bank of meters and dials. As the band runs through “Little Old Log Cabin” and “He Will Set Your Fields On Fire”, he tweaks the levels […]
The last notes of “You Are My Sunshine” hang in the piney air like beads of dew on a spiderweb. Out of the corner of my eye I see my new pal Jenna wipe her cheek. Since our acquaintance is […]
As my boyhood hero Ernie Banks liked to say, “Let’s play two today!” With co-headliners Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson offering the musical equivalent of a doubleheader, and a warmup set by Hot Club Of Cowtown serving as batting practice, […]
