Monday, October 17 2011
Old Country Comfort: How the British Might Save American Music (Again)
The British saved rock 'n' roll, reignited the blues, and may just make country music more American.
Monday, April 4 2011
Ray Davies: See My Friends
Ray Davies' latest album is part tribute compilation, part vanity project. Mark my words, no one will be discussing this a year from now.
Thursday, February 3 2011
The Year In Music: June 2010
June 2010, the subject of our latest look at the year’s biggest events in music, was a month of successful releases and summer concerts.
Tuesday, January 18 2011
TV Party Tonight: Interview with the 88
Frontman Keith Slettedahl recently called in from sunny California to talk with PopMatters about their new album, new priorities, and the band's continuing presence on silver and small screens.
Thursday, November 18 2010
Kelley Stoltz: To Dreamers
This batch of lo-fi home recordings is Stoltz's best effort to date because it perfectly fits the image his fans have had of him all along: A music lover holed up in his bedroom, knee-deep in a pile of instruments, smiling back at posters of Ray Davies and David Bowie.
Monday, October 11 2010
Great Big Sea: Safe Upon the Shore
Great Big Sea is, at its heart, a party band, and there is pretty much one thing that its music is a soundtrack to in Canada: drinking your face off.
Thursday, June 17 2010
‘You Really Got Me’ Really, Really Got to Me
This utterly abominable hatchet job makes an unforgivable hash of one of the great bands of the British Invasion.
Tuesday, April 27 2010
Celebrating the Allure of the Almighty Riff
The riff: is there any sweeter two-word phrase in the rock vocabulary? AJ Ramirez offers his examples of the best riffs via video.
Saturday, May 23 2009
See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me…Sell Me
Pete Townshend is selling (his soul), but who's buying? Not I.
Monday, December 1 2008
Juno (Deluxe): Music From the Motion Picture
How to capitalize on one of the few successful movie soundtracks of the past decade? Re-release it a year later with some "b-sides!"
