These days, I approach a new Iced Earth record with both high hopes and a little trepidation. You May Also Like: Kait Dunton, with John D’earth – ‘Planet D’earth’ (2019) Wicked Realm, Aug. 26, 2016: Shows I’ll Never Forget
The musical palette employed during “Worlds Apart” — the tablas and the vocals delivered by Asif Ali Khan and Haji Nazir Afridi — was almost shocking. This is a Bruce Springsteen song?! You May Also Like: Reevaluating Bruce Springsteen’s ‘The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle’
Los Lonely Boys have never sounded more cosmopolitan, never more engaged in the wider musical landscape around them, and yet Revelation isn’t all about previously untried sounds. The brothers keep their feet firmly planted on a now familiar soul-soaked blues-rock firmament. You May Also Like: Los Lobos – ‘Native Sons’Read More
Billy Branch, a fire-kissed harp-playing protegé of blues great Willie Dixon, took some 15 years between studio recordings — and not because of some lack of creative impetus. Instead, Branch was waiting for a new sound to come together. You May Also Like: Jaimie Branch – Fly or Die (2017)
<<< BACKWARD (“Mary Shut The Garden Door”) ||| ONWARD (“Downtown Canon”) >>> *** STEELY DAN SUNDAY INDEX *** It’s strange: I like Donald Fagen records for how much they sound like Steely Dan and I like Walter Becker’s records for how they distance themselves from Steely Dan records. You MayRead More
Tom Levin took a huge step back into the spotlight, after struggling for years through a bad record deal, with 2011’s Tooth and Claw. This new album consolidates everything that once made him a best-new-artist phenom You May Also Like: No related posts.
Phil Collins has taken his knocks (ahem!) for yanking Genesis up by its prog-rock roots and replanting it on the Billboard pop charts. Still, anyone who questions Collins as a drummer need only explore his tandem, tantalizingly brief late-1970s career in Brand X. You May Also Like: No related posts.
It doesn’t matter how many records I listen to in a year, I always seem to miss a few good ones. Live Fast, Die Loud is one of those that I didn’t get to in 2013. You May Also Like: Alice Cooper, Oct. 28, 2016: Shows I’ll Never Forget AliceRead More
Damon Fowler’s career was hardly in need of enlivening. This is a guy who, over the past few years, has not only been unleashing his own rootsy blues-rock outings but has also co-founded the good-time dixie-groove Southern Hospitality band. You May Also Like: Eri Yamamoto, Chad Fowler, William Parker +Read More
Making the labored sound simple must be one of the tallest orders for any jazz musician, but that seems to come naturally to Philadelphia-based saxophonist Ian O’Beirne. You May Also Like: No related posts.
