Three reissues feature AM radio hits and obscurities from the late '50s and early '60s. Plus, Steve Forbert revisits one of his best albums and a reissue from the late, great Jimmy LaFave.
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Charlie Doherty’s Top 50 Tunes of 2019
Young artists and veteran hitmakers alike created an abundance of memorable tunes in 2019. Post Malone, Jay Som, Beck, and Sharon Van Etten are among them.
Read More »Concert Review: Illenium – The Ascend Tour
If you're lucky enough to live near a venue where Illenium is bringing this tour (with William Black and Dabin), do yourself a favor you'll remember for a lifetime, and get a ticket.
Read More »Music Review: ILLENIUM – ‘Ascend’
'Ascend' by ILLENIUM is an incredibly enjoyable example of how one artist can cross genres without changing a single thing about who they are.
Read More »BC Arts: NYC Celebrates Astor Piazzolla in Music and Theater
'That's Not Tango' and the Neave Trio at Lincoln Center declare July the season for the music of the great Argentine tango nuevo composer Astor Piazzolla.
Read More »SXSW Music Festival 2019: March 15 (Austin, Texas)
Broken Social Scene and Steve Earle rocked out Friday's showcases at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas.
Read More »SXSW Music Festival 2019: March 13 (Austin, Texas)
Das Body and Sweet Crude performed some addicting uptempo dance songs to Wednesday's SXSW schedule in Austin, Texas.
Read More »SXSW Music Festival 2019: March 12 (Austin, Texas)
Gurr and Priests were among the bands performing on Tuesday, March 12 during South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, TX.
Read More »Music Review: Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations – ‘Terpsichore’
In France in the early 18th century, minuets, sarabandes, and gigues were written to be literally danced to, sometimes by popular professional dancers. Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations recall those days with music by Telemann and Jean-Fery Rebel.
Read More »Music Review: Mah-Ze-Tar Releases ‘Liquid Lotus’
'Liquid Lotus' is beautiful, a synthesis of harmonic imagination akin to an exchange between two diverse cultures and spiritual states.
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