Sound & Fury: 130 Miles to Eden with Sturgill Simpson
Sound & Fury brings both in decadent and luscious portions, but ebbs and flows while delivering its heretical musical sermon.
Sound & Fury brings both in decadent and luscious portions, but ebbs and flows while delivering its heretical musical sermon.
What makes “Weird Al” Yankovic so amazing is that he largely avoids politics, is genuinely charming in interviews, and treats his fans well.
Without further ado, and in no particular order, I present to you The Ordinary Times Father’s Day Spin, 2021 told by our contributors
In the Heights isn’t just the movie of the year to me, or of the summer, but its perhaps the movie of my lifetime that I’ve been waiting for
This week we take a trip to the deeper south by way of Sweden with Ghost, a band that has a satanic cult concept, but an arena rock sound
Slobberbone is an excellent band, and your knowledge of them will instantly make you cooler than anyone else you know
Expanding into a more pop-rock sound, Aaron Lee Tasjan has endlessly catchy songs in the vein of Tom Petty, ELO, and The Traveling Wilburys.
If we are talkin’ Coen Brothers soundtracks, O Brother, Where Art Thou is second only to The Big Lebowski.
Sturgill Simpson’s Cuttin’ Grass Vol 2 is not a double-LP like Vol 1, and it has been pared down in scope, but it still slaps.
20 tracks of reinvented Sturgill Simpson and Sunday Valley songs, because Sturgill Simpson is a bit of a cosmic gift to country music.
That’s the beauty of a good Satanic Panic. Like all good conspiracy theories, all proof against it is really proof that it is real.
What is so different about the Notting Hillbillies is that Mark Knopfler eschewed front man status, and opted for a more background role.
I consider Descendents to be an integral part of my teenage years. I hope these guys keep making music well into their golden years.
To make the double feature work, I will do my typical track by track, but do a little comparison between the two Blonde on Blonde albums.
2001: A Space Odyssey is known for is the use of the music in scenes instead of dialog. Kubrick let the music accompany the imagery.
ZZ Top’s Tres Hombres is not only famous for the excellent jams…it also has an all-time hunger inducing gatefold spread
Who was going to grab the stupid kid on the traffic signal island first? The military police or ZZ Top in a limo?
It is hard to find a living professional acoustic guitarist that does not feel indebted to Michael Hedges in some way.
Last week we all took a psychedelic journey back to the Summer of Love. Folks, this week’s LP is ready to rock your socks right off, though. I went to the Discogs randomizer to...
Listening to music so many decades after it came out means missing the context in which the albums are made.