John Owen Writer Profile

John Owen is a music writer, multi-instrumentalist and music industry veteran based in coastal Massachusetts.

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127 Music Review: The Beatings - Late Season Kids
The latest album from the Boston quintet is a solid set of assured, masterful independent noise-pop.

Review in Music — by John Owen — on Oct 16, 2009
126 Music Review: Hands and Knees – Et Tu, Fluffy?
A nearly perfect little record of distorted, bouncy low-fi power pop, straight from the future.

Review in Music — by John Owen — on May 26, 2009
125 Music Review: Get Help - The End of the New Country
A well crafted set of introspective indie rock that amounts for this writer to a very welcome break from children's music.

Review in Music — by John Owen — on Sep 07, 2008
124 Music Review: Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
The Chicago violinist returns with a stupendous, iconic, gorgeous album that is among of the very best of the year.

Review in Music — by John Owen — on May 11, 2007
123 Music Review: Robert "Junior" Lockwood - Steady Rollin' Man
Delmark Records reissues the debut session from one of the Chicago blues' finest players.

Review in Music — by John Owen — on May 10, 2007
122 Music Review: Scuba
A warm and fuzzy (and superb!) debut from a New England band who, you should know, are not shoegazer revivalists.

Review in Music — by John Owen — on May 10, 2007
121 Music Review: Eldridge Rodriguez - The Conspiracy Against Us
An impressive and scarily accomplished debut album from a member of the Boston quintet The Beatings.

Review in Music — by John Owen — on Mar 20, 2007
120 Music Review: Junior Wells - Live at Theresa's 1975.
One of the greats of Chicago blues doing what he did best night after night, at the club he called home.

Review in Music — by John Owen — on Dec 04, 2006
119 Music Review: The Slits - Revenge Of The Killer Slits EP
Britain's first ladies of dubby, scratchy punk are all grown up, back together, and trying to recapture the old magic.

Review in Music — by John Owen — on Nov 10, 2006
118 Music Review: Jane's Addiction - Up From The Catacombs
Jane's Addiction finally get the best-of they deserve in this fine seventeen-song collection from Rhino.

Review in Music — by John Owen — on Oct 28, 2006