It’s that time of year again, time to spend those newly-acquired gift cards. Pop culture fans, like myself, may be looking to spend those cards on music and movies, so I am highlighting some recent releases worth considering. The Rolling […]
It’s that time of year again, time to spend those newly-acquired gift cards. Pop culture fans, like myself, may be looking to spend those cards on music and movies, so I am highlighting some recent releases worth considering. The Rolling […]
In 1967, Their Satanic Majesties Request found the Rolling Stones reacting to albums like the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper with studio-enhanced psychedelia. A year later, they followed up with Beggars Banquet, which saw them moving in an opposite direction: like such […]
During the month of June, everyone is celebrating love and the freedom of expression. Brooklyn-based artist Niva (aka the Soul Diva) celebrates both with her latest EP, entitled Life Love and Music. I had the pleasure of chatting with Niva […]
Cosmic American Music is hard to define, and often easier to define by what it’s not. Michael Grimshaw in his essay “Redneck Religion and Shitkickin’ Saviours? Gram Parsons, Theology and Country Music” writes: “Parsons’ mission was the creation of a new way forward, […]
Click the album titles for reviews and song samples. Various Artists – At the Louisiana Hayride Tonight. There is no way to overstate the historical sweep and artistic brilliance of this 20-disc, 2-book box set. Raspberries – Pop Art Live. No band […]
Jeremy Nail wasn’t aiming for a complex album when he recorded My Mountain last year. “When I started working on this group of songs, I wanted to make something simple and poignant,” says the Austin-based singer-songwriter. “There was an intimacy […]
What a week for surprises! The Grammy nominations held a few, of course. We learned that, despite the fact Loretta Lynn toured with Willie Nelson a ton, she only recently tried weed. And we got some new music news from Hurray […]
The authors of the mind-bogglingly comprehensive All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Beatles Release (2013) and Bob Dylan: All the Songs (2015) are back. This time around, Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon offer an equally exhaustive look at the Rolling […]
The Woodstock and Monterey Pop films offer quite a flash from the past, but if you want to know how much and how fast the culture changed during the sixties, step back just a few more years and watch The […]
I introduced myself to Greg Vandy at this year’s Americana Music Conference in Nashville, back in September. I knew he was cool because I saw him at all the good shows over the week and then at Arnold’s “meat & three” Country Kitchen. […]
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