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.
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Book Review: ‘Your Place in this World’ by Jake La Botz
'Your Place in this World' by Jake La Botz is an empathic and caring story of someone from the streets of Chicago who's just desperately trying to find a way to be.
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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.
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They could almost be the characters in an old-fashioned murder mystery. But no one's solving a crime; they're here to support each other as they try to solve themselves.
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When two off-duty British soldiers meet two pretty Irish women in a pub, things go swimmingly until they don't in Leo McGann's 'The Honey Trap.'
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 »Theater Review (NYC): The Fire This Time Festival 2026
Six short plays by emerging Black playwrights tackle racism and civil rights, heroes and villains, and family dynamics.
Read More »Music Review: Stew Cutler and Friends – ‘Undercover (Mostly)’
Guitarist Stew Cutler merges blues, soul, and jazz with the best of them. But he's never done a covers album before.
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Winning is not always about “defeating” a monster; instead, it may be about finding a way for our world and that of the monsters to coexist.
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To say that psych-pop group Orange Bicycle never established a trademark style would be an understatement.
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