One painful incident of media sexism is an article about this band that was cruelly headlined “That Dad”. The snide implication was that the members of that dog. had only made it to a recording booth thanks to the industry…
Album Review: Leonard Cohen – “Thanks for the Dance”
I was in the minority who believed that Leonard Cohen’s You Want it Darker was a stronger end-of-life album than David Bowie’s Blackstar in 2016, and I stand by that opinion now. Deep, dark, and strange, it sounded like it was recorded…
Album Review: DJ Shadow – “Our Pathetic Age”
DJ Shadow is one of the indisputable masters of electronic music. His 1996 breakout Endtroducing….. is still a landmark in creative sampling, a dizzyingly dense collage of esoteric musical references, comedy skits, interviews, and Twin Peaks clips. It’s still my…
Album Review: Neil Young & Crazy Horse – “Colorado”
The return of the weirdest classic rock n’ roller and his toughest, wildest band, together for the first time in seven years, should be a cause for celebration. Even if Crazy Horse’s long-running guitarist Frank “Poncho” Sampedro sadly dropped out,…
Album Review: Big Thief – “Two Hands”
Perhaps the most heroic feat of this album is that it’s the second universally acclaimed album from Big Thief this year. That might not have been much of a feat in the 60s, when Dylan, Stones and the Beatles released several outstanding…
Album Review: Tinariwen – “Amadjar”
Almost uniquely for any band around the world, Tinariwen’s background story is even more interesting than their music, which is not at all to disparage their gripping variation on Saharan desert blues that has made them a worldwide success. It’s…
