Recent Music Columns

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Wednesday, July 29 2009

Def and Twisted

By Adrien Begrand

A band of pretty youngsters from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and a homely bunch of New York club scene veterans. Rock on.

(more Blood and Thunder)

Thursday, July 23 2009

Hipster Hatred Knows No Bounds

By Michael Brett

Our new columnist and satirist Michael Brett, an 'old', curmudgeonly rock guy, recalls when he first noticed the proto-hipster. It was the Weezer show at the Aragon in 1994

(more The Rockist)

Wednesday, July 22 2009

Jennifer Lee: The Bay Area Diana Krall

By Will Layman

Jennifer Lee is not the typical, seductive jazz singer in a little black dress, holding a martini and giving you a late night wink. But she is a heck of a singer and musician, and she's ready to be heard.

(more Jazz Today)

Hail to the Thief, Again?

By George A. Reisch and Brandon W. Forbes

Thom Yorke’s thoughts about political power are in good company. Great theorists of power and justice agree: “you do it to yourself”.

(more Pop Goes Philosophy)

Monday, July 20 2009

It Ain’t Hard to Tell: The Legacy of ‘Illmatic’

By Quentin B. Huff

The "half-man, half-amazin'", Nas' persona is part myth and part "everyday kid" from the Queensbridge projects.

(more Busted Headphones)

Wednesday, July 15 2009

Bob Holroyd Re:Turns

By Derek Beres

“Writing music is often like assembling a collage, and I think this is why a lot of my tracks have a sort of cinematic quality to them,” says Holroyd.

(more Global Beat Fusion)

Tuesday, July 14 2009

Don’t Quit Your Day Job—If You Have One

By Ben Rubenstein

Koko Taylor imitator Ladykat drives the city bus that I occasionally ride – at least that, I hope, gives her health insurance.

(more Mixtape Confessions)

Monday, July 6 2009

You Can Call Her ‘Dr.’ Dolly Parton

By Juli Thanki

With her honorary doctorate in hand, here's hoping she'll next broker peace in the Middle East, repair the economy, and explain the twisted plotlines of 'Lost' -- Lord knows, the woman is capable.

(more Torch & Twang)

Friday, June 26 2009

Five Days in March: Uncle Tupelo’s Quiet Revolution

By Bob Proehl

Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy may have left country behind, but in 1992, he helped redefine the sound of alt-country.

(more Pickin' Down the Line)

Monday, June 22 2009

For Summer Dancing in the Streets

By Derek Beres

Six spectacular world beat albums that will have you dancing through those sweet summer nights.

(more Global Beat Fusion)

Tuesday, June 16 2009

Goatwhore: Crazed Endurance

By Adrien Begrand

One listen to Sammy Duet's masterful riffing is enough to send the most fussy metal aficionado into paroxysms of headbanging ecstasy.

(more Blood and Thunder)

Friday, June 12 2009

On the Sixth Day God Created Man…chester: Part 1

By Iain Ellis

Boasting a plethora of bands whose creative imaginations have invariably left legacies of influence, pound-for-pound Manchester is the world’s greatest rock city.

(more Alternative Rock Cultures)

Thursday, June 11 2009

Great Vibrations: An Interview with Gary Burton

By Will Layman

Our jazz critic talks to Gary Burton about his reunion with Pat Metheny, about starting a "gentle" jazz-rock group, and that no one seems to know what a "vibraphone" really is.

(more Jazz Today)

Wednesday, June 10 2009

The Best of the Basket Cases: Round 2

By Ben Rubenstein

Ben bursts open the bubble mailers and announces this round of … winners (honoring the best and brightest of the many unsolicited CDs sent to him).

(more Mixtape Confessions)

Tuesday, June 9 2009

Prince’s Paisley Pals

By Quentin B. Huff

Minneapolis, Minnesota was the center of Prince's musical kingdom, but there were a lot of musicians associated with his purple music. Here's a short list, with a few ground rules.

(more Busted Headphones)

Monday, June 8 2009

Blood Meridian: The Last of the True

By Andrew Gilstrap

Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian has been called unfilmable, but that doesn't stop Ben Nichols from getting ahead of the game and crafting a worthy soundtrack.

(more Field Studies)

Thursday, June 4 2009

To Lefty to Willie to Phossy with Love

By Bob Proehl

Even in railing against the influence of another, the musician must admit that influence and its inescapability. Like Br’er Rabbit and the tar baby, every blow struck just brings the two closer together.

(more Pickin' Down the Line)

Friday, May 22 2009

Abnormally Attracted to Sin: Tori Amos Talks with PopMatters

By Matt Mazur

On the eve of the release of her tenth album, Amos chatted about collaborating with rock Gods and Goddesses, how bootlegs could potentially cause divorce, and why a gal sometimes just needs a good wig to add an extra element of surprise to both her marriage and her live show.

(more Suffragette City)

Wednesday, May 20 2009

The Bleak, Beautiful Art of Amesoeurs

By Adrien Begrand

“I always felt close to Baudelaire's poetry,” says Neige, “at the same time extremely romantic, sour and decadent. A meeting between horror and sublime.”

(more Blood and Thunder)

Tuesday, May 19 2009

Thank the Lord for Marty Stuart and his Mullet

By Juli Thanki

What better way to soothe modern worries than by taking in classic country music with a side of hillbilly humor?

(more Torch & Twang)

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