Jon Sobel is Co-Executive Editor of Blogcritics. As a writer he contributes most often to the Culture section, where he often reviews NYC theater; he also writes a semi-regular review round-up of independent music releases. By night he's a working musician: lead singer, songwriter, and bass player for Whisperado, a founding member of the Kings County Blues Band, and a sideman. His newest project is the blog Park Odyssey, where he is visiting and blogging every park in New York City—over a thousand of them. Through Oren Hope Marketing and Copywriting you can hire him to write or edit whatever marketing materials your heart desires.
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In which we witness the pressure cooker of twenty-first century teenage life with what feels like scary accuracy.
A big, cathartic drama, messy with the joy, the mystery, and the love of theater.
The male psyche is a fragile thing.
The Stone Coyotes might be making the purest rock of any band working today.
Pop-oriented arrangements carried the Doors far from their stripped-down, bluesy roots, with some questionable results.
Never has a humble bologna sandwich channeled more emotion.
You come for the funny, you stay for the music.
How a closeted gay musician dealt with the "manly" world of rock, the AIDS epidemic, and his own demons.
Good children's music doesn't "sing down" to kids, and this CD meets that requirement.
Cook's sensitivity to the importance of empty space is something young performers don't usually develop so early in their careers.
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