Revisiting Deerhunter’s second release, 2007’s Cryptograms — a project that revels in protracted segments of drone-and-swirl, experimental trajectories unfolding as minimal but intense jams — I’m struck how the purely sonic elements contextualize Bradford Cox’s avant-garde songwriting and idiosyncratic vocal […]
Originally a 10-track, 40-minute album, John Lennon’s chart-topping Imagine has been expanded for this release to include…well, more than you could have possibly imagined. Four CDs deliver 61 tracks and upwards of four and a half hours of playing time—and […]
Is there a reason we need another long, exhaustive — and exhausting — biography of any of the Beatles? Don’t we likely know most of what we’re going to know about the four lads from Liverpool? These days, is their […]
On Jan. 8, 2016, David Bowie celebrated his 69th birthday — though quietly — and also released his new album, Blackstar, to wide critical acclaim. Bowie’s demonstrated his passionate musical genius by traversing musical borders, shifting sounds, forever trying out the […]
When you stand on the stage of the Ryman Auditorium, there’s a feeling that overcomes you. “Every country music artist has stood there,” Charlie Daniels once told me, his voice rising with emotion. “And when you look out, you say […]
Now that right there is a trio of random thoughts, providing I can group together the duo of Billy and Don, which is my intention. These thoughts each came to me one at a time, rattling around inside my head like […]
