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Monday, August 10, 2020

So When You Gonna…Check Out Dream Wife?

August 10, 2020August 10, 2020 Eric Davidson 0 Comments Dream Wife, Lucky Number Records, Red Aunts, Sahara Hotnights, So When You Gonna, sports, The Kills, The Sounds

The UK punk trio drop their sophomore slab of sneery dance pop

Dead Radio Remembrance

A Quick Note On Jerry Garcia

August 9, 2020August 9, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1995, 25th Anniversary, David Grisman, Howard Wales, Jerry Garcia, Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band, Jerry Garcia Band, RIP, The Grateful Dead

Today marks the 25th anniversary of his untimely death

Art Pop Hip Hop Rap

ALBUMS: In Memory Of A Young Legend

August 9, 2020August 9, 2020 Daniel Offner 1 Comment Blake Slatkin, Dre Moon, Eminem, G Herbo, Halsey., J. Cole, Juice WRLD, Kxng Crooked, Legends Never Die, Lil Dicky, Lil Nas X, Marshmello, Max Lord, Nick Mira, Polo G, Rex Kudo, Sheck Wes, The Kid LAROI, Travis Scott, Trippie Redd, Young Thug

The first posthumous Juice WRLD release showcases the genius of a talent gone way before his time was up

Rock

REISSUES: The Iron City House Is Rockin’

August 7, 2020August 9, 2020 Robert Baird 0 Comments Grains of Sand, Have Fun But Get Out Alive! Bruce Springsteen, Ian Hunter, Iron City Houserockers, Joe Grushecky, Marshmallow Steamshovel, Mick Ronson, Steve Popovich, Steve Van Zandt, the Fenways

Diving deep into the 40th anniversary reissue of the Iron City Houserockers’ best album—the record that should have made their career—Have a Good Time But Get Out Alive!

Pop

Brian Wilson Was Always Made For These Times

August 7, 2020August 7, 2020 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 1995, 25th Anniversary, Brian Wilson, Disney, Don Was, I Just Wasn't Made For These Times, The Beach Boys

Beach Boys’ resident genius released the soundtrack of his life in 1995

New Wave Post-Punk

ALBUMS: A Hero’s Death for Ireland’s New Punk Heroes

August 6, 2020August 6, 2020 Lily Moayeri 0 Comments 2020, A Hero's Salute, Echo & The Bunnymen, Fontaines D.C., Grian Chatten, Johnny Marr, Mazzy Star, Partisan Records

Dublin’s Johnny Marr-approved Fontaines D.C. punch up the romance on their second album

Folk Indie Rock

Business Womyn of the New Millennium

August 6, 2020 Nikki Wertheim 0 Comments 2000, 20th Anniversary, Neil Young, Sara Quin, Tegan Quin, This Business of Art, Vapor Records

How ProTools and Neil Young helped put Tegan and Sara over in the year 2000

New Wave

How Ultravox Created The ’80s With Vienna

August 5, 2020August 5, 2020 Jim Allen 0 Comments 1980, 40th Anniversary, Billy Currie, Classix Nouveaux, Connie Plank, Duran Duran, Midge Ure, Spandau Ballet, Steve Strange, Ultravox, Vienna, Visage

One band’s reinvention became the New Romantic mission statement

Music Journalism

Famous Quotes Vol. 10: August 2020

August 4, 2020August 4, 2020 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments Cherie Currie, Famous Quotes, Fiction Plane, Jim Sullivan, Joe Sumner, Little Feat, Lowell George, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Noel Gallagher, Oasis, Rickey Medlock, Sting, The Police, The Runaways

Jim Sullivan looks back on a career of epic interviews in the latest installment of his inquisitive column

Pop

Connecting The Dots With The (Original) Chicks!

August 4, 2020August 4, 2020 Eric Davidson 0 Comments 1965, Cat Stevens, Modern Harmonic, New Zealand, Sundaz, The Chicks, The Pretty Things, The Sound Of The Chicks

An exclusive chat with Suzanne Donaldson about the history of New Zealand’s pop pioneers and the first-ever U.S. edition or their classic LP The Sound Of The Chicks

Fusion Pop Power Pop Progressive Rock

Broke Down But Not Busted: Todd Rundgren’s Runt at 50

August 3, 2020August 3, 2020 Jordan Blum 0 Comments 1970, Ampex Records, Bearsville, Bearsville Studio, Great Speckled Bird, Jesse Winchester, Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Runt, Stage Fright., The Band, The Nazz, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren's Utopia

Why the Wizard’s first solo album after The Nazz is his McCartney I

Alternative Rock North Americana

Found Somewhere Between The Road And My Heart: The Geraldine Fibbers’ First Masterpiece at 25

August 3, 2020August 3, 2020 Nathan Carson 3 Comments 1995, 25th Anniversary, Carla Bozulich, Geraldine Fibbers, Lost Somewhere Between The Earth and My Home, Virgin Records

For an elite group of music fans, Lost Somewhere Between The Earth and My Home is as essential as Nirvana’s Nevermind and Jeff Buckley’s Grace combined