An addict tries to face up to her struggles in a stirring new video from The Yesters.
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Music Reviews: Nektar’s ‘Down to Earth’ Box Set, plus Duke Robillard and Paul McCandless
This follow-up to the "Remember the Future" album reached No. 32 on U.S. charts and produced the group’s only U.S. chart single, “Astral Man.”
Read More »Music Review: Grievous Angels – ‘Revolution’
'Revolution' from the Grievous Angels is an uplifting and wonderful album for our times which will have you dancing on the picket lines.
Read More »Music Reviews: Jimmie Rodgers’ ‘A Career Anthology,’ plus the Cucumbers
"He didn’t sugarcoat things. He put a lot of things out there that were the way they really were. And he knew a lot.”
Read More »Music Reviews: 99 Hits from 1956 and Two Blasts from the Blasters’ Past
Like its predecessors, this latest compendium inevitably sounds as if it were designed for someone with multiple personalities.
Read More »Valentine’s Violin: Exclusive Interview with Violinist Esther Yoo on Her Album ‘Love Symposium’
Each selection represents a different type of love. But the violinist had deeply personal criteria for what music she wanted to include.
Read More »Music Reviews: Early Rock Ballads, plus NRBQ, the New York Second, and Eric Brace & Thomm Jutz
If you’re not familiar with the music of the late 1950s and early 1960s, you’ll probably have a hard time guessing which of these tunes rocketed up the charts and which never dented the Hot 100.
Read More »Music Reviews: ‘Steppin’ Out’ Collects Early Garage Rock, plus Tom Paxton & John McCutcheon
A new 94-track anthology is as likable as it is varied. It features many of the best and best-known acts associated with early garage rock.
Read More »Music Reviews: Lucinda Williams’s ‘World’s Gone Wrong,’ plus Dave Miller
Williams attempts to find solace in music, but she can’t forget the world’s troubles, at least not on this album.
Read More »Music Reviews: ‘Twelve Blocks’ by Michael Stephen Brown; ‘Poulenc’ from Pascal Rogé, Elena Font, Lidy Blijdorp
'Twelve Blocks' further establishes Michael Stephen Brown as a composer with skills on par with his pianistic virtuosity.
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