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Wednesday, April 10 2013

Bruce Springsteen Book Claims ‘Born to Run’ Almost Died


Friday, October 12 2012

Sing a Sad Song

If you're hooked on the sad song, you never stop looking for the next good one.


Monday, March 5 2012

I Heard You Missed Us (Says Van Halen and Many, Many Others)—We’re Back!

The David Lee Roth-fronted Van Halen returns after a 28-year absence. Who else has made fans wait that long? Quite a few, it turns out.


Thursday, November 10 2011

Ólöf Arnalds: Ólöf Sings EP

The Icelandic singer-songwriter serves up a fine quintet of English-language songs; highlights include covers of Springsteen, Dylan, and Johnny Cash.


Monday, November 7 2011

Catie Curtis: Stretch Limousine on Fire

Here's another genial, generic album of singer-songwriter stuff that wouldn't sound out of place on your local public radio station.


Friday, September 30 2011

The Dirt Daubers: Wake Up, Sinners

The bluegrass outfit, led by Legendary Shack Shakers frontman (and Kentucky colonel) J.D. Wilkes, offers up an express train of an album.


Friday, September 9 2011

Counterbalance: Year One

In this special one-year anniversary edition of Counterbalance, Eric Klinger and Jason Mendelsohn discuss their first year combing through the pop music canon (as determined by Acclaimed Music's calculations of every best-of list available), share a few favorites, and justify a couple items on their expense account.


Tuesday, August 9 2011

In Defense of Good Sax

I could list several dozen songs that would be greatly lessened, if not unthinkable, without their saxophonic embellishment; so could you. In the interest of time and clarity, let's take three and call it a day.


Tuesday, July 12 2011

Bought on the Fourth of July

With The Homeland Directive writer Robert Venditti offers a deep and meditative work on the nature of personhood in an era of mass marketing. Easily the equal of the illustrious works of John Reed or Jonathan Franzen, The Homeland Directive elevates both the political thriller genre and the comics medium.


Friday, July 1 2011

Drop the Needle and Pray: Mourning Clarence Clemons, 1942 - 2011

The mystery and sensuality of Clarence’s sax on “Spirit in the Night", the triumphant conclusion to “Thunder Road", and the epic solo in “Jungleland", are a few of the prodigies among Clarence and Springsteen’s many children -- children conceived by the spiritual love affair that they had for nearly 40 years.


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Pete Seeger: The Power of Song (2007) (Short Ends and Leader) [7.Aug.08]
Greetings From Bury Park by Sarfraz Manzoor (Capsule Reviews) [16.Apr.08]
Constantines, Clipse, The Gossip… (Mixed Media) [16.Apr.08]
1968 with Tom Brokaw (Reviews) [25.Feb.08]
Bruce Springsteen: Magic (Reviews) [1.Oct.07]
Reading About APEC (Sources Say) [5.Sep.07]
Springsteen’s Other Tracks (Features) [5.Apr.07]
Bruce Springsteen: Devils & Dust (Reviews) [25.Apr.05]
Bruce Springsteen: The Rising (Reviews) [9.Aug.02]
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