In a just world, Ray Wylie Hubbard's 'Tell the Devil I'm Gettin' There as Fast as I Can' would be heard on radios around the country.
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Music Review: Ray Wylie Hubbard – ‘Tell the Devil…I’m Gettin’ There as Fast as I Can’
God and the Devil figure prominently in the Texas troubadour's magnificent and dark new opus. But it's music itself that's authentically sacred in the world he creates.
Read More »Music Review: Dave Kline Band – ‘Shifting Borders’
Shifting Borders is a cocktail that embraces the music of multiple cultures and merges them together into a melodic brew.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World’
'Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World' will make you listen to everything from country to jazz, blues, and rock in a whole new way.
Read More »Retro Modern: The Cranberries – ‘Something Else’
'Something Else' isn't about reinvention in the purest sense, but reimagination. It shows that The Cranberries are willing (and able) to retrofit their formidable canon, and that's not something every recording act is capable of 25 years into their career.
Read More »Interview: Marie Miller on Her New Album, ‘Letterbox’
Marie Miller on her return to music, her love of literature, and what it was like to perform for Pope Francis.
Read More »Music Review: Wytold – ‘Fireflies, Fairies, and Squids’
Capturing the imagination is a prominent factor of Wytold's music. His recording has gorgeous soundscapes.
Read More »Music Review: Danielle Wertz and Tal Cohen – ‘Intertwined’
The bluesy vocal register of Wertz, intertwined with the light tremors of Cohen's keys, make for an ambient jazz repertoire.
Read More »Music Review: Malcolm Holcombe – Pretty Little Troubles
Holcombe creases a sense of decrepitude and weariness into his deliberately half-wrecked-sounding voice and uses both to pointed effect, speaking directly to the immigrant, the wanderer, the home-seeker in all of us.
Read More »Music Review: David Broza – ‘The Set List’
'The Set List' from David Broza is not just a greatest hits package, it's a great opportunity to get to know the music and the man.
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