Music
Adam Green, Sixes & Sevens (Rough Trade)
The general rule is that any album has to have a theme. Even if that theme is something as simple as the genre of music the songs fit into, most […]
Hampton Flying South
Rightly or wrongly, horn players loom over the history of jazz, yet anyone who knows jazz knows Lionel Hampton. As a band leader, educator, political activist, his influence touched all […]
Danny Marks, Introducing the Solars (Damngood!)
Danny Marks is a man who wears his hometowns on his sleeve. He was born in Chicago, musically trained in New Orleans, is now living in New York City, and […]
The Vettes, T.V. (ThroBack)
Five songs may be all we need to fall in love with the Vettes. Like the Ramones and the Donnas before them, the Vettes are a family of rockers, the […]
Lamarque Street, Favorite Waste of Time (Lost Car)
If it is possible to sum up an album in a single phrase, Lamarque Street’s Favorite Waste of Time would be “defiant melancholy.” The New Orleans trio buzzes through a […]
Vinyl Comeback
There was once a time where albums were not downloadable packages with PDF cover art. They were carefully crafted masterpieces; music on a grand and heavy scale. On the surface, […]
Cat Power, Jukebox (Matador)
A good cover is never really a cover, but a unique insight into the lives of the artists who record them. What they make of a covered song reflects the […]
