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Friday, February 26, 2021

Hooky At 65

February 13, 2021February 13, 2021 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments Bernard Sumner, Gillian Gilbert, Happy Birthday, Ian Curtis, Joy Division, New Order, Peter Hook, Peter Hook and The Light

Celebrating with influential Joy Division/New Order singer and bassist’s first day as a proper senior citizen

Fusion jazz Remembrance

Chick Corea: Mourning a Keyboard Colossus

February 12, 2021February 12, 2021 Jim Allen 1 Comment Bitches Brew, Chick Corea, Chick Corea Elektric Band, Circle, Gary Burton, Miles Davis, Return To Forever, RIP

A handful of highlights from a talent too big for boundaries

Music Journalism

Seven Crosses and a Horse

February 12, 2021February 12, 2021 Tim Sommer 3 Comments Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, football, Jeep, Lynn Goldsmith, MC5, NFL, Rolling Stones, Sex Pistols, Super Bowl LV, Woody Guthrie

Bruce Springsteen, Jeep and the death of the lie-dream of Liberalism in American rock and pop

Electronics Hip Hop

Madlib’s ‘Sound Ancestors’ Is a Triumph of Hip-Hop Beatmaking, With a Little Help from Four Tet

February 11, 2021February 11, 2021 Justin Joffe 0 Comments 2021, Four Tet, Kieran Hebden, Lyn Collins, Madlib, Madlib Invazion, Otis Jackson Jr, Sound Ancestors, Young Marble Giants

What the samples chosen for Madlib’s ‘Sound Ancestors’ teach us about his genre-bending, boom-bap brilliance

Pop

The Tale of Telemachus, the Tapestry Cat

February 10, 2021February 10, 2021 Ron Hart 2 Comments 1971, 50th anniversary, album, Carole King, cats, Jim McCrary, Tapestry, Telemachus

Curiosity got the best of me when I went digging deeper to find out more about Carole King’s kitty companion on the cover of her iconic 1971 solo LP, which turns 50 today

Pop Remembrance Soul

LISTEN: In Memory of Mary

February 10, 2021February 10, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments Detroit, Diana Ross, Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson, Motown, RIP, The Supremes

Remembering the Supreme of our dreams

North Americana

ALBUMS: Strawberry Letter ’21

February 9, 2021February 10, 2021 Lee Zimmerman 1 Comment Bob Dylan, Dualtone Records, Janis Ian, Joni Mitchell, Langhorne Slim, Pete Seeger, Sandy Denny, Strawberry Mansion, Woody Guthrie

Langhorne Slim shares resolve and reassurance from the sweet environs of his Strawberry Mansion

Music Journalism

The Rock & Roll Globe Presents The Real Deal 30

February 8, 2021February 11, 2021 Jason Gross 0 Comments Andy Zax, Anthony Fantano, Hype Machine, John Strohm, Juno Downloads, Oh My Rockness, Pat Thomas, Record Store Day, Rounder, Rounder Records, Saidah Blount, Shamir, The Needle Drop, The Vinyl Guru

Ranking the players in the music industry that really matter in 2021

adblock Rap

I Can Tell That You’re in Touch With Your Feminine Side: Nicki Minaj’s Pink Friday Turns 10

February 7, 2021February 7, 2021 Ted Miller 0 Comments 2010, Cardi B, Danny Brown, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, Lil Kim, Nicki Minaj, Pink Friday, Rihanna

With love to Danny Brown and the pre-Pulitzer Kendrick Lamar, Nicki Minaj was unquestionably the greatest rapper of the first half of the 2010s

Music Journalism

Famous Quotes Vol. 16: February 2021

February 6, 2021February 6, 2021 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments " “Crimson & Clover, “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, ” Ewan MacColl, Boston, Dean Wareham, Famous Quotes, I think we're alone now, Jim Sullivan, Luna, Roberta Flack, Tom Scholz, Tommy James

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

Alternative Rock Power Pop

It’s an International Pop…OVER-Throw!

February 5, 2021February 5, 2021 David Bash 3 Comments 1991, 30th Anniversary, International Pop Overthrow, International Pop Overthrow 2019, International Pop Overthrow festival, Jim Ellison, Material Issue, Mercury Records

Celebrating 30 years of Material Issue’s power pop masterpiece

Electronic New Wave Soundtracks and Film Scores

ALBUMS: Every Day Is Halloween

February 5, 2021February 11, 2021 Nathan Carson 0 Comments 2021, John Carpenter, John Carpenter Lost Themes III: Alive After Death, Lost Themes, Lost Themes II, Sacred Bones Records

John Carpenter’s Best Sequel Yet – Lost Themes III: Alive After Death

Rock Rockabilly

Lee Rocker: Go Cat Go!

February 4, 2021February 4, 2021 Katherine Yeske Taylor 0 Comments 2021, Airstream, Brian Setzer, Gather Round, Lee Rocker, London, Long Island, Rockabilly, Slim Jim Phantom, Stray Cats, Uptight Records

COVID-19 couldn’t keep this Stray Cat out of the house

Alternative Rock Hard Rock

ALBUMS: Foo Minutes To Midnight

February 3, 2021February 3, 2021 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 2021, Chris Shifflett, Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters, Medicine At Midnight, Pat Smear, Taylor Hawkins

A new album, Medicine at Midnight, finds the Foo Fighters sparring with success

Rock

How Many More Years: Little Feat at 50

February 2, 2021February 5, 2021 Justin Joffe 5 Comments 191, Bill Payne, Frank Zappa, Linda Ronstadt, Little Feat, Lowell George, Richie Hayward, Ted Templeman, The Band, The Mothers of Invention, Willin'

A half century in, the freaky Heartland perseverance of the band’s eponymous debut still has us Willin’ to keep movin’