Is Courtney Barnett This Generation’s Bob Dylan?
Back when Courtney Barnett made her big splash on the music scene in 2015 with…
Year of the Month: Persia on Twistin’ the Night Away
Sam Cooke’s story is not unfamiliar if you follow early rock and roll: his father…
Year of the Month: scb0212 on Limp Bizkit’s Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water
As grunge and alternative music was fading in the late nineties, rock was looking for…
Year of the Month: R.L. Burnside’s Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down and Tradition at the Turn of the Millennium
It would be almost be too neat a narrative if the music didn’t demand it:…
“It’s the Damage That We Do…”: Son of Griff on the Tempered Passion of Elvis Costello’s Armed Forces
In his first two albums, Elvis Costello achieved a sublime reconciliation of opposites by making…
Year of the Month: The Wall
I’ve got wild, staring eyes.And I got a strong urge to fly.But I got Nowhere…
Year of the Month: Tom “vomas” Morton on Rock ‘n’ Roll High School
Kate: Look at your math book — it looks brand new. Bet you’ve never even…
Year of the Month: Celeste Dobropolski on Selena
I don’t remember when I started listening to her, but I will always remember the…
The Beach Boys do HOLLAND (Year of the Month)
Some lifetimes back, Noel Murray wrote an article describing the typical arc of the Beach…
Year Of The Month – Greetings From Ashbury Park, NJ
This isn’t a great record, I want to make that clear. My dad might disagree…