Elton John’s double LP Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was released following a long string of successful albums (Don’t Shoot Me, I’m Only the Piano Player; Honky Chateau; Madman
Recorded and released at the height of “grunge,” 1993 was the perfect time for the Smashing Pumpkins to unleash Siamese Dream upon the world. I didn’t own the album
Richard Thompson is a great, enduring artist that for whatever reason most mainstream music listeners have never heard of. Thompson’s best album –arguably, of course – was Shoot
Let It Be sounds the way one would imagine being a teenager would sound: the anger, the confusion, the fury, the broken heart. And it should, since some
Foxygen – consisting of songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Sam France and Jonathan Rado – have produced a well-written, instrumentally eclectic album with We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of
Hüsker Dü never sounded any better than they did through the shitty old stereo cassette player in my Ford Festiva. Turned up all the way, the two speakers
When ABC announced Nashville was in production, I was interested to see how they would portray Music City USA. After all, I am familiar with the town. It’s where
At their worst, Never Shout Never sound like Jason Mraz set against more of a dream-like musical texture, wordplay and everything with Indigo. “I’ve got sixty-nine problems and the
