The Head And The Heart: Every Shade Of Blue [Album Review]
The Head And The HeartEvery Shade Of BlueReprise/Warner Records [2022] The band, The Head and the Heart, arrived along with a new class of indie … Read more
Ryan Adams: Chris [Album Review]
Ryan AdamsChrisPAX-AM [2022] Ryan Adams is playing for redemption on his 19th studio album, Chris, which he’s described as the third part of a trilogy … Read more
Curse Of Lono: People In Cars [Album Review]
Curse of LonoPeople In CarsSubmarine Cat Music [2022] The path to wrapping your head around the London band Curse of Lono and its third album, … Read more
Kurt Vile: (watch my moves) [Album Review]
Kurt Vile(watch my moves)Verve Records [2022] (watch my moves), the ninth studio album from Kurt Vile if you include his collaboration with Courtney Barnett on … Read more
Christian Lee Hutson: Quitters [Album Review]
Christian Lee HutsonQuittersANTI- [2022] In the songs from his ANTI-Records debut, 2020’s Beginners, modern folk/rock singer/songwriter Christian Lee Hutson wrote songs that looked back to … Read more
Weezer: SZNZ – Spring [Album Review]
WeezerSZNZ: SpringCrush Music/Atlantic Records [2022] Even if you haven’t loved every step on the journey with Weezer, you have to be impressed by composer/bandleader Rivers … Read more
Jack White: Fear Of The Dawn [Album Review]
Jack WhiteFear Of The DawnThird Man Records [2022] There’s a moment in the 2008 guitar rock doc “It Might Get Loud,” featuring Jack White, Jimmy … Read more
Calexico: El Mirador [Album Review]
CalexicoEl MiradorANTI- [2022] When Calexico’s primary members and writing team, Joey Burns and John Convertino convened in Tucson at the home studio of their keyboard … Read more
Shaylee: Short-Sighted Security [Album Review]
ShayleeShort-Sighted SecurityKill Rock Stars [2022] Performing as Shaylee, Portland, Ore. singer songwriter Elle Archer has delivered a true ‘Do-it-yourself’ tribute to the music that inspired … Read more
Yumi Zouma: Present Tense [Album Review]
Yumi ZoumaPresent TensePolyvinyl Records [2022] While Yumi Zouma is most comfortable in gentle confines of the midtempo electronic tones of classic Euro-pop sounds, the band … Read more
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Unlimited Love [Album Review]
Red Hot Chili PeppersUnlimited LoveWarner Records [2022] Nobody who caught the Red Hot Chili Peppers in the mid-80’s imagined that the LA funky punk boys … Read more
Ceramic Animal: Sweet Unknown [Album Review]
Ceramic AnimalSweet UnknownEasy Eye Sound [2022] Ceramic Animal, the 5-piece rock & pop band out of Doylestown, PA, had already released three independently produced albums … Read more
Midlake: For The Sake Of Bethel Woods [Album Review]
MidlakeFor The Sake Of Bethel WoodsATO Records [2022] Midlake, a band a UK reviewer described succinctly as “the Texan masters of folk-proggy-Americana, return nine years … Read more
The Weather Station: How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars [Album Review]
The Weather StationHow Is It That I Should Look At The StarsFat Possum Records [2022] The Weather Station’s 2021 release, Ignorance, won widespread critical acclaim … Read more
Hurray For The Riff Raff: Life On Earth [Album Review]
Hurray For The Riff RaffLife On EarthNonesuch Records [2022] While this is Hurray for the Riff Raff’s is its debut on the Nonesuch label, it’s … Read more
Sonic Youth: In/Out/In [Album Review]
Sonic YouthIn/Out/InThree Lobed Recordings [2022] Okay, my favorite time seeing Sonic Youth they were on tour opening for Neil Young & Crazy Horse in 1991, … Read more
Sarah Shook & The Disarmers: Nightroamer [Album Review]
Sarah Shook & The Disarmers NightroamerThirty Tigers [2022] North Carolina’s Sarah Shook & The Disarmers return with their third album, actually recorded just prior to … Read more
Dashboard Confessional: All The Truth That I Can Tell [Album Review]
Dashboard ConfessionalAll The Truth That I Can TellHidden Note Records/AWAL [2022] Harlan Howard’s oft repeated description of country music as “three chords and the truth,” … Read more
Band Of Horses: Things Are Great [Album Review]
Band Of HorsesThings Are GreatBMG [2022] We all know, Things Are Great is what you say, when you don’t want to tell people that you’re … Read more
Joan Osborne: Radio Waves [Album Review]
Joan OsborneRadio WavesWomanly Hips [2022] Although Joan Osborne has kept recording solo albums, touring, and collaborating with the likes of the Funk Brothers, Phil Lesh … Read more
Midnight Oil: Resist [Album Review]
Midnight OilResistSony Music [2022] The standing joke among those of us old enough to remember is that the opening months of 2022 feel a lot … Read more
Tears For Fears: The Tipping Point [Album Review]
Tears For FearsThe Tipping PointConcord Records [2022] For all the bright, dance floor potency of Tears for Fears’ 1985 smash hits “Shout” and “Everybody Wants … Read more
Johnny Marr: Fever Dreams Pt. 1-4 [Album Review]
Johnny MarrFever Dreams Pt. 1-4BMG [2022] While it’s only natural to look for echoes of The Smith’s in Johnny Marr’s solo work, he was only … Read more
Frank Turner: FTHC [Album Review]
Frank TurnerFTHCXtra Mile Recordings [2022] Frank Turner has always been a punk rocker at heart, even his “folk” albums are roiling with punk attitude and … Read more
North Mississippi Allstars: Set Sail [Album Review]
North Mississippi AllstarsSet SailNew West Records [2022] For brothers Luther Dickinson, who played with the Black Crowes from 2007 – ’11, and Cody Dickinson, the … Read more