ALBUM REVIEWS
ALBUM REVIEW: Bill Callahan Settles in on ‘Gold Record’
On his 1999 song "Let's Move To The Country," released under his previous Smog moniker, Bill Callahan was the wandering man who yearned for the simplicity of commitment, but he wasn't really ready to settle into it. He tried to draw as close as he...
STORIES
Bob Dylan’s Long Road to ‘Rough and Rowdy Ways’
It’s with a sense of trepidation that I drop the metaphorical needle on new releases by those mythical figures from the dawning era of popular...
Love Will Tear Us Apart: Joy Division’s ‘Closer’ at 40
Today marks the 40th anniversary of Joy Division’s second and final studio album, Closer. Recorded just a year after their previous album, the acclaimed and...
YOU GOTTA HEAR THIS: Chubby and The Gang
Every once in a while the magic happens. It only takes a few seconds, and you’re hooked. Like seriously hooked. That’s what happened when I...
THE CORNER CLUB: Gil and Jorge
The premise is so absurdly simple that it might read like a bad joke. Two Brazilian musicians walk into a studio, with nothing but their...
Quarantine Diaries: Time Traveling with Melody Fields
The Sixties. The decade when all good music was made. The greatest albums of all time. Except that’s not true, is it? Arguably, what we mean when we...
YOU GOTTA HEAR THIS: The Cosmic Creeps’ ‘Crawl’
Crawl is the debut album from Fort Worth, TX-based band The Cosmic Creeps. And for anyone who's known of them for a while, it's been...
THE CORNER CLUB: Caetano Veloso’s Beautiful Contradictions
The first 30 seconds of Caetano Veloso's revolutionary 1968 self-titled debut carry with them almost 400 years of Brazilian history. There's the arrangements themselves, with...
THE UNDERDOGS: Deerhunter’s ‘Monomania’
I’ve previously shared my full-hearted admiration for Deerhunter’s 2010 album Halcyon Digest (twice). It’s a classic, but as with any great band with an extensive...