Ugly Boys have it going on. Gorgeous vocal harmonies and a captivating melody make 'Old News' a definite winner.
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Music Review: We Are The West – ‘The Golden Shore’ Dishes Up Delicious Sounds
'The Golden Shore' dishes up a sweet coalescence of sound with that of space.
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I really like 'Preaching to the Choir.' It is mainstream pop in flavor and color, but different and refreshing.
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'Swan and Wolf' is one of those albums defined as starkly scrumptious, dreamy, and haunting.
Read More »Concert Review: American Classical Orchestra with Contralto Avery Amereau (NYC, 24 March 2018)
The venerable original-instruments orchestra presented familiar and seldom-heard works, including Brahms's 'Alto Rhapsody' and music by Schubert and Ferdinand Ries.
Read More »Music Review: Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow – ‘Annihilation’ Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Composers Goeff Barrow and Ben Salisbury team up for the impressive, highly recommended (3.5 star) musical score released by the pairing of Lakeshore Records and Invada Records to the sci-fi thriller 'Annihilation.'
Read More »Music Review: Isabelle Faust and Kristian Bezuidenhout – ‘J.S. Bach: Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord’
All told, these are some of Bach's most compelling and beautiful works, and it's hard to imagine a finer performance than this.
Read More »SXSW Music Festival 2018: March 17 (Field Division, In the Valley Below, Lola Marsh, Wyldest, and More)
Even though there was technically one last night of South by Southwest 2018, it still seemed as if Saturday was the festival's one true finale.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Dream of the Rood’
Western Europe's earliest known dream-vision poem, newly translated from the Anglo-Saxon and adapted for the stage.
Read More »Music Review: Ben Ryan – ‘Abacus’ Tantalizes, But Falls Short
The best tune on 'Abacus' is definitely “Peru,” because of its mounting structure.
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