pop Archive
25 Mar 2020
What Was ‘Losst’ is Now ‘Founnd’: A New Harry Nilsson Album (Part 2)
Continued from Part One … Though a number of posthumous releases followed Nilsson’s death (including several CDs’ worth of previously unreleased session material), Harry’s final project remained unfinished and largely […]
24 Mar 2020
What Was ‘Losst’ is Now ‘Founnd’: A New Harry Nilsson Album (Part 1)
Featuring an idiosyncratically spelled title that evokes memories of his 1977 LP Knnillssonn, singer and songwriter Harry Nilsson has returned with Losst and Founnd, his first album of new music […]
23 Mar 2020
Kat Edmonson: Old Fashioned Dreamer
In the era before rock ‘n’ roll, pop music was for adults. And while adult pop continued as a force through the ’60s – witness the careers of Tom Jones, […]
16 Mar 2020
Album Review: Eamon Ra — Meat Bones Chemicals Electricity
The album title telegraphs that Eamon Ra is something of an eccentric artist. That the LP comes packed with a magazine-sized lyric/comic book only serves to reinforce that impression. And […]
15 Mar 2020
30 Days Out, March 2020 #2: Sister Ivy, Graham Nash, Wham Bam Bowie Band, Eilen Jewell
UPDATE March 17: It looks as if all live shows are canceled for the foreseeable future. Please support these and other artists by buying their music online, viewing (and paying […]
08 Mar 2020
Q&A with Freddy King Cole
The last name may sound familiar: Pianist and singer Freddy Cole is, in fact, the youngest brother of the late Nat “King” Cole, the jazz musician who scored more than […]
04 Mar 2020
Take Some Old Songs and Make Them Newer: The Beatles’ ‘Hey Jude’ at 50
In light of the fact that they’re the most popular rock act in the history of music, the Beatles’ catalog is more than a bit confusing. Though CD-era reissues were […]
03 Mar 2020
Prog in Disguise: The Buggles’ ‘The Age of Plastic’ at 40
The late 1970s were an odd time for popular music. Today’s listeners know that punk made its mark in the middle ’70s, but it’s worth noting that from a commercial […]
24 Feb 2020
For Hawai’ian Trio Waipuna, Stories and Emotions Transcend Language
Among music fans living in mainland United States, there’s relatively little knowledge of Hawai’ian music. And what awareness there is centers largely around Don Ho’s “Tiny Bubbles” and Bing Crosby’s […]
22 Feb 2020
Album Review: Eleventyseven — Basic Glitches
What a difference a couple of decades can make. Eleventyseven got its start in Laurens, S.C. as a pop-punk band trafficking in Christian themes; one of its earliest shows took […]