At the Marquee Theater, Tempe, Arizona Somehow both Alissa and I entirely missed any announcements that Toad The Wet Sprocket’s ex-lead singer, Glen Phillips, was coming to the area, finding out about it only hours before the show. You May Also Like: Alestorm / Gloryhammer, September 11, 2018: Shows I’llRead More
I’ve been spending a lot of time over recent weekends doing something I haven’t done in a long time: listening to the radio. You May Also Like: Rick Wakeman and the English Rock Ensemble – ‘The Red Planet’ (2020) Yes, That’s Stephen Stills on One of the Bee Gees’ BiggestRead More
What better way to spend Halloween than with (as it’s lovingly referred to in the liner notes) this thing? You May Also Like: How Frank Zappa’s ‘Trance-Fusion’ Became Yet Another Unpredictable Gift Jon Larsen Did a Twist on Frank Zappa With ‘The Jimmy Carl Black Story’ Frank Zappa – ‘FunkyRead More
On this special edition of Something Else! Reviews’ One Track Mind, we hand the reins over to the boundary-pushing Nicholas Payton You May Also Like: Nicholas Payton – ‘Smoke Sessions’ (2021)
by Tom Johnson One listen to Shara Worden’s voice and it should come as no surprise that she’s actually a trained singer, pulling off with ease the kinds of things most rock singers can only dream of attempting. Worden sounds just a bit operatic — but not so melodramatic, neverRead More
I was fine, mostly, with Peter Gabriel dumping the guitars and drums for his interpretations of other people’s work on Scratch My Back. There was considerably less excitement, though, for these looming orchestral interpretations of his own solo works You May Also Like: When Peter Gabriel Suddenly Decided to OpenRead More
by Tom Johnson Every time Grant-Lee Phillips puts out an album this happens: it comes out, I love it, and then it just falls into my routine. Whatever it is about Grant-Lee Phillips, he somehow has the right gearing to mesh with the gearing of my life with nary aRead More
by Mark Saleski What do Neil Diamond, System of a Down, the Beastie Boys and The Dixie Chicks have in common? Rick Rubin. You May Also Like: Tom Petty, Johnny Cash + Beastie Boys: Rick Rubin’s Most Important Albums
by Derrick Lord When you mention Matt “Guitar” Murphy around people who think they know something about blues music, but really don’t … you frequently get a response of rolled eyes. You May Also Like: Leviathan Drummer Gary ‘Roscoe’ Murphy: Something Else! Interview The Everly Brothers – Two Yanks inRead More
by Tom Johnson After the disappointment I felt with 2005’s RockPaperScissors, I would never have expected a “remix” album of that material to not only stand on its own but be as strong as it was — nor be a favorite for the year 2007. And yet … BellCurve takesRead More
