Wednesday, January 18 2012
The Big Chill: 5 Great Records to Help You Through Winter
PopMatters's Corey Beasley can't knit you a blanket, but he can do the next best thing: here are five classic wintertime records to help you through the big chill.
Thursday, August 18 2011
Carol Kleyn: Love Has Made Me Stronger
Harpist Carol Kleyn's 1976 record, now reissued by Drag City, is a heavy dose of intense, almost insular, joy that would sound naïve if she wasn't so convincing in her optimism.
Tuesday, December 7 2010
The Year in Music: February 2010
Let’s continue our look at the biggest events in music, one month at a time, with February 2010.
Monday, October 18 2010
Glasser: Ring
Glasser’s debut album, Ring, is filled with the kind of indie-pop pedigree that makes music PR people froth at the mouth. Fortunately, the album is hardly a collection of popular indie derivatives.
Monday, September 13 2010
Green Man Festival: 20 August 2010 - Glanusk Park, Wales
The rain proves to characterize the weekend as much as anything else, as the weekend is blighted by downpours almost without break. Luckily, no one involved was about to let that get in the way.
Thursday, April 22 2010
Big Ears Festival: 26-28 March 2010 - Knoxville, TN
For Knoxville music and arts fans, it was time to show the rest of the world that we’ve got a pretty hip little town on our hands, and the Big Ears Festival is a perfect mission statement.
Monday, April 5 2010
Joanna Newsom: 18 March 2010 - New York
Ms. Newsom and her fantastic backing band gave Have One On Me the warmth and musical depth it deserves. But it was her revamped takes on older treasures that show how far she’s really come.
Thursday, March 25 2010
Joanna Newsom: 23.Mar.10 - Washington D.C.
Performing in a venue that easily accommodated her fans' hushed reverence, Joanna Newsom led her band through a set of assuredly sophisticated folk-pop.
Wednesday, February 3 2010
Josephine Foster: Graphic As a Star
The Snow White of freak-folk gets her Emily Dickinson on.
