'About Time' can be divided between up-tempo rock songs fueled by her over-the-top vocals and slower stripped-down bluesy tunes.
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Concert Review: The Dandy Warhols at the Wiltern Theater, Los Angeles, June 14, 2013
This popular veteran indie rock band celebrated the 13th anniversary of its most famous album "Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia" by playing it in its entirety,. But was the show a success or a disappointment?
Read More »Music Review: Sea Level – “Cats on the Coast/On the Edge”
Sea Level had a short career, but was a competent and professional band that had a unique blend of sounds, and seemed to have had some fun along the way.
Read More »Willie Nile – The Best Musician You’ve Never Heard Of – Yet
"Music is to be shared just as life is to be shared and I've had the opportunity to do both with a great many people".
Read More »Music Review: Tea Leaf Green – “In The Wake”
"In The Wake" catches Tea Leaf Green in transition and it’s good to see a band explore new directions at times without leaving their past party/jam roots completely behind.
Read More »Music Review: Fleetwood Mac – “Extended Play” EP
Fleetwood Mac offers up their first new batch of songs in 10 years. Will fans of the '70s/Buckingham-Nicks era be pleased with it?
Read More »Music Review: Captain Beyond – “Live In Texas – October 6, 1973”
A long lost 1973 concert is finally released on CD - a wonderful journey back in time into the mind and music of Captain Beyond.
Read More »Music Review: The Colorplates – “Agony and Ecstasy”
This new compilation may not make The Colorplates champs, but if it evokes for others the same nostalgia for lost youth that it evoked for this reviewer, it will make for a lot of happy campers.
Read More »The Dave Matthews Band 2013 Summer Tour Is in Full Swing
A new live bootleg, a new tour, and supporting a worthy charity is what's news in the world of Dave Matthews.
Read More »Music Review: R.E.M. – Green: The 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
Green wasn’t my favorite R.E.M. album when it was first released way back in 1988, and to be perfectly honest, it still isn’t. Not by a longshot. But it was definitely a turning point, both in terms of where they were headed creatively, and certainly – pardon the expression, here …
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