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26 Sep 2025
That Thing You (Didn’t) Do, Part 2 of 2
The search for a movie’s theme song: Director Tom Hanks’ love letter to ‘60s rock drew upon top songwriters Continued from Part One… The Verve Pipe – “That Thing You […]
25 Sep 2025
That Thing You (Didn’t) Do, Part 1 of 2
The search for a movie’s theme song: Director Tom Hanks’ love letter to ‘60s rock drew upon top songwriters A shorter edit of this feature appeared previously in SPIN. Tom […]
24 Sep 2025
Album Review: The Brigadier — Sailing the Seven Neuroses
I reviewed The Brigadier’s Wash Away the Day back in 2017, and named it one of the year’s best. Here we are eight years later, and the Brigadier (Matt Williams […]
23 Sep 2025
Album Review: D.K. Harrell – Talkin’ Heavy
In this era of “blues lawyers” – dilettante guitarists who can afford pricey gear and private lessons, but who possess no true feel for the blues – the emergence of […]
22 Sep 2025
The Indoor Astronomy of Astronomía Interior
This feature appeared previously in SPIN Magazine. “We agreed not to make another rock and roll band,” laughs Ángel Mosqueda. Good thing, because he and Jesús Baez are already in […]
19 Sep 2025
The Mind Movies of Adrian Younge
This feature appeared previously in SPIN Magazine. Some artists combine genres as a stylistic challenge, motivated by curiosity: Can it even be done? But when Adrian Younge blends musical forms […]
18 Sep 2025
Music Blurbs Vol. 14
More of my 200-word sorta-bios. A Flock of Seagulls The enduring visual image of A Flock of Seagulls is one featuring Mike Score’s distinctive hairstyle, a swept-forward do reminiscent of […]
17 Sep 2025
Kingfish Widens His View Beyond the Blues
At age 26, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram is a major figure in the blues world. Yet he’s a relative newcomer to the music industry, having signed his first recording contract in […]
16 Sep 2025
Five Top 40 Singles from Black Sabbath (No, Really.)
Few listeners would ever consider Black Sabbath a “singles band.” Pioneers of drop-tuned, doomy heavy metal, the Birmingham, England quartet exerted a massive influence on hard rock of the 1970s […]
15 Sep 2025
30 Days Out, September 2025 #2: Tinsley Ellis, Mountain Goats, Redd Kross, Ben Folds
Blues, indie rock, punk pop (the good kind) and intelligent rock-meets-orchestra. Wow; what an exciting thirty days here in Asheville. Onward… Artist: Tinsley Ellis Venue: Grey Eagle Date: Sunday, Sep. […]