NEED FOR A BETTER SCRIPT
By Greg Popil You have to give the creators of “Need For Speed” this much credit: They don’t lack guts when it comes to throwing down the gauntlet in terms of living up to the legends of its genre. ...
ReadmoreKELLER WILLIAMS STAKES OUT HIS OWN MUSIC REAL ESTATE
By Michael Lester Quirky, deadpan instrumental wizard Keller Williams is so multitalented, few of his fans would shrug at the suggestion he was peddling homes, moonlighting as an agent with Keller Wi...
ReadmoreDAN DEACON AND HIS AUDIENCE SHARE THE SPOTLIGHT
By Emily Votaw COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Who is Dan Deacon? An electronic pop guru? An avant-garde composer? A fanatic devotee of Looney Tunes and Spiderman? Deacon is a bit of each of those things, but ...
ReadmoreAMY HELM: “IT’S OUR JOB TO PASS IT ON”
By Michael Lello Amy Helm is playing a vital role in keeping alive the legacy of her late father Levon – and not just in name. When the legendary drummer, singer and mandolin player from The Band di...
Readmore“SLAVE” RIPS OPEN AMERICA’S FESTERING WOUNDS
By Greg Popil Referring to the nearly 400-year era in which America allowed an entire race of human beings to be subjugated to enslavement as an “injustice” can seem pathetically quaint. Indeed, all ...
ReadmoreSTANTON MOORE TO RELEASE JAZZ ALBUM, SHARES “LAUREN Z”
Drummer Stanton Moore (Galactic, Garage a Trois, Dragon Smoke) will release "Conversations," his first straight-ahead jazz album, on April 15. On "Conversations," Moore played in a trio setting with...
ReadmoreTOM GRAHAM TEASES NEW ALBUM, SET FOR FALL RELEASE
Photo by Jason Riedmiller Scranton singer/songwriter Tom Graham has shared a video teaser for his new studio album. Graham tells us the record is set for release this fall. It will be his first ful...
ReadmoreFUTURE ISLANDS TAKES ON BREAKUP DRAMA — AGAIN
By Emily Votaw In the post-post-post punk world where the Future Islands discography exists – where romanticism runs wild and every heartbreak is the most meaningful one and synths have the power to ...
Readmore“POMPEII” PROVIDES MINOR B-MOVIE PLEASURES
By Greg Popil In 79 A.D., the small Italian villa of Pompeii was completely and utterly obliterated by the eruption of Vesuvius, a massive volcano that buried the town beneath 20 feet of ash and lava....
ReadmoreJOHN THE CONQUEROR CELEBRATES “THE GOOD LIFE” — AND ASSHOLES
By Nikki M. Mascali John the Conqueror was a folkloric slave hero, an African prince sold into slavery in America who never let his enslavement break his spirit. John the Conqueror is also a root us...
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