Yes – ‘Fly From Here’ (2011)
Yes’ 2011 comeback album ‘Fly From Here’ is, in many ways, better than it has any right to be.
Articles by: Nick DeRiso
Half Notes: Liam Finn – FOMO (2011)
Liam Finn’s second solo record is different, something far more conventionally pop-infused than his 2007 debut, a thrilling but almost confusingly complex outburst of creativity called I’ll Be Lightning — and that can, at first, sound like a step backward. It starts with his noticeable drift back into the shadowRead More
Badfinger’s Joey Molland: Something Else! Interview
Joey Molland discusses a few Badfinger moments, both good and bad, as well as sitting in with the Beatles – and taking it, yes, day after day.
One Track Mind: Frank Sinatra and Count Basie, "The Best Is Yet To Come" (1964)
The crashing brilliance of “The Best Is Yet To Come,” courtesy of Frank Sinatra and the Count Basie band, came to mind on this, the fifth anniversary of Something Else! Reviews. You May Also Like: No related posts.
One Track Mind: Mongorama, "Tin Marin" (2011)
Inspired by an early Cachao album, “Tin Marin” is the rousing closer on Mongorama’s new self-titled project on California-based Saungu Records. A thrilling exposion of classic charanga-jazz, the album features a nine-piece all-star band You May Also Like: How ‘Live: Oy Vey, Baby’ Reminded Us That We Never Deserved TinRead More
One Track Mind: Churchwood, "Vendidi Fumar (I Sell Smoke)" (2011)
Guitarists Bill Anderson and Billysteve (yep, one word) Kopri turn the blues inside out on Churchwood’s “Vendidi Fumar,” then wear it around like Lady Gaga’s meat dress. Theirs is a sound — sudden, bright and menacing — not unlike a car crash You May Also Like: No related posts.
Grayson Capps – The Lost Cause Minstrels (2011)
What Grayson Capps brings to country music, if you can call it that, is a real sense of danger. From the first of “Highway 42,” a tune that jangles like a loose fender, I was thinking about those long-haired rebels of the 1970s You May Also Like: No related posts.
Terence Blanchard – Malcolm X: The Original Motion Picture Score (1992)
If you stop eating popcorn mid-munch during the opening strains of the film ‘Malcolm X,’ that’s just fine with trumpeter Terence Blanchard.
Lenny White on ‘Vulcan Worlds,’ ‘Bitches Brew,’ ‘Sofistifunk,’ and Others: Gimme Five
Lenny White, drummer with fusion-rock pioneers Return to Forever, joins us to discuss a handful of key tracks from across his career.
Lenny White, of Return to Forever: Something Else! Interview
Lenny White’s life away from Return to Forever, a band he’s played with off and on since the early 1970s, has remained as hectic as it is varied.
