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Concert Review: Lana Del Rey at Minsk Arena, Belarus, June 12, 2013
If Lana Del Rey is supposedly fake and inauthentic, she does care a bit too much about her fans and a bit too little about makeup, or hair, or dress, or fireworks exploding, or confetti flying. At an...
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Music Review: Willie Nile –‘American Ride’
The road trip has taken on almost iconic status in American pop culture. From Jack Kerouac’s On The Road to quasi-philosophical works like Zen and the Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance, the road trip has...
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Music Review: Hadiza Dockeray –‘Chapter 4′
A little blues, a little rock, a lot of emotional introspection—while this is not bad as a capsule description of Chapter 4. the new EP from the “honey-coated vocalist” Hadiza Dockeray, it is just a...
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Music Review: Dead Boots –‘Veronica’
Dead Boots have actually been around for a while, but they had another name: TAB the Band. They put out some records and gained a bit of attention, but it wasn’t enough to really make them well known....
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The Angels Topped the Charts 50 Years Ago This Week
Girl vocal groups reached the top of the charts dozens of times throughout the 1960s. The Shirelles, The Marvelettes, The Crystals, The Chiffons, and The Supremes all reached number one on the...
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Concert Review: Sarah Brightman in San Jose 10/28/13
Last night on October 28 at the SAP Center in San Jose, Sarah Brightman showed us what she has been cultivating in her dreams since her last album, 2008′s A Winter Symphony. Brightman’s Dreamchaser...
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Music Review: Future Islands –‘Singles’
The formula that Future Islands (on 4AD) employs on their album Singles is surprisingly simple. If you put a driving bass over an uptempo drum track, people will dance to it. It’s a formula that can...
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Music Review: Foster the People –‘Supermodel’
Given the undeniable success of Torches, it is understandable that Foster the People would want to rehash some of the formulas that led to their success. Indeed, Supermodel is replete with syncopated...
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Music Blu-ray Review: Joni Mitchell –‘Woman of Heart and Mind’&‘Painting with...
Woman of Heart and Mind and Painting with Words and Music celebrate Joni Mitchell, who is one of those artists who impacted the lives of her early fans in lasting ways. Those fans who have followed...
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Music Review: Linda Ronstadt –‘Duets’
Linda Ronstadt has the sort of voice that will allow her to sing anything and sound good. It is also the sort of voice that blends very well with other singers, male and female. Over the past four...
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Music Review: Saintseneca –‘Dark Arc’
Despite the looming presence of modern indie touches throughout Dark Arc (on Anti), Saintseneca avoids letting the influences dominate, allowing the band’s more artful qualities to shine through. Zac...
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Music Review: Donna Summer’s Pop Domino: ‘Lady of the Night’ Turns 40
When Love to Love You Baby (Casablanca, 1975) impacted, its ripples had a lasting effect on popular music and the woman who brought it to life. However, Donna Summer’s musical odyssey did not begin...
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Music Review: Rage to Love – Kim Wilde’s ‘Teases & Dares’ Turns 30
Kim Wilde’s move from the independent imprint RAK Records to MCA represented a pop gambit. With her eponymous debut in 1981, Wilde secured herself a position in the new wave movement with its atomic...
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Music Review: Out Is Through – Alanis Morissette’s ‘So-Called Chaos’ Turns 10
Nine years after the movement-defining Jagged Little Pill (Maverick, 1995), Alanis Morissette could not be contained to the “alt angst” label. This might have come as a shock to a certain segment of...
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Music Review: Bring It On – Seal’s ‘Seal II’ Turns 20
Three years separated Seal’s debut―Seal (ZTT/Sire/Warner Bros., 1991)―from its follow-up. When he had arrived in 1991, his interplay of dance music and ballads was refreshing. However, Seal was...
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Music Blu-ray Review: Peter Gabriel –‘Back To Front: Live In London’
Most of the time popular culture looks to the past for purposes of reliving past glories or for wallowing in nostalgia. Very few of us have the courage and strength to look back at where we’ve come...
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Music Review: Eric Frisch –‘Goodbye Birdcage’
Currently from New York City but originally from Toronto, Eric Frisch wrote, performed (vocals, piano, guitar, bass, and percussion), produced, and released his first full-length album, Goodbye...
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Music Review: Leonino – ‘Naked Tunes’
Also known as Jorge González, Leonino is preparing to release on 15 September a new album titled Naked Tunes. Hailing from Chile, Leonino has been in the music industry for quite some time, and puts...
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Music Review: U2 –‘Songs of Innocence’
As a rule, U2 fans can be categorized based on when it was that they stopped becoming fans of U2. For many fans, the period of departure occurred after Joshua Tree. I myself am a Pop man. I appreciated...
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Music Review: Linda Ronstadt –‘Duets’
Linda Ronstadt has the sort of voice that will allow her to sing anything and sound good. It is also the sort of voice that blends very well with other singers, male and female. Over the past four...
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