Aaron Lee Tasman's 'Get Over it Underdog' is a Daliesque mirror view of today’s world. An album for our times.
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Music Reviews: The Rolling Stones’ ‘Foreign Tongues,’ plus Soul Music from Baltimore
Everything here sounds worthy of the Stones, probably in no small part because it sounds as if they’re still having fun making music. If this is their coda, it's a good one.
Read More »Music Reviews: The Cyrkle’s ‘Revival,’ plus C. Gibbs and Ray Campi
Members of the Cyrkle, a group best known for the 1966 smash hit "Red Rubber Ball," deliver new music half a century later. Plus, reviews of CDs from C. Gibbs and Ray Campi.
Read More »Music Reviews: Sad Daddy’s ‘Ozark Shine’ plus Two Albums of Vintage Soul
Sad Daddy includes Melissa Carper and might sometimes remind you of Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks. The band favors acoustic instruments and playful music.
Read More »Music Review: Jazz Pianist Kemuel Roig – ‘Both Sides Now’
'Both Sides Now' takes the listener on a silken journey through classics by Joni Mitchell, Michel Legrand, Cole Porter and more.
Read More »Music Review: David Bird – ‘Hinterlands’
In the music on composer David Bird's new album, the hardness and coldness of actual metal seem almost literally audible.
Read More »Music Reviews: A Tribute to Badfinger’s Pete Ham, plus Graham Parker, the Tasty Kings, and the Claudettes
A multi-artist tribute focuses on little-known numbers that previously existed only in Pete Ham’s home demo versions. Their excellence underscores how much untapped potential he possessed.
Read More »Music Reviews: George Thorogood, plus Samantha Fish, Sensational Country Blues Wonders!, and Fruit Bats
There’s a reason George Thorogood & the Destroyers’ discography includes more than half a dozen live albums. Their high-octane, sax-spiced, blues-rock works best in a concert setting, where audiences seem to energize Thorogood, and he interacts with them as well as he does with his guitar. The latest recorded evidence …
Read More »Music Review: ‘A Forest Unfolding’ – a Collaborative Cantata Inspired by Trees
Four composers combine in an appealing work promoting "a shared community between us and the other living creatures that make us possible."
Read More »Music Reviews: Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Live from Asbury Park,’ plus the Knack, Iris DeMent, Rachelle Garniez, and R.W. Hampton
Springsteen’s return to his home turf lends a special flavor to this performance.
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