THURSTON MOORE’S LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO 2020
Thurston Moore's "By the Fire" is a lot like 2020: a tense, disorienting swirl where time no longer matters and it's hard to remember anything besides darkness. From the foreboding opener "Hashish" to...
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ALEX JORDAN IS CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’ ON DEBUT ALBUM
The old adage "write what you know" pays off handsomely for Alex Jordan on his debut solo album, "The Subtle Exhibitionist," and what Jordan knows is California. Equal parts introspection and open-roa...
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‘SPIRIT’ TAKES JERRY GARCIA’S GOSPEL TUNES TO CHURCH
One of the greatest gifts Jerry Gacria continues to give to generations of music fans is an entry point into music they might not have discovered on their own. Old-timey folk, bluegrass, jazz -- a sim...
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BOB DYLAN, THE PHILOSOPHER PIRATE, RELEASES HIS BEST WORK IN DECADES
“I'll take the Scarface Pacino and The Godfather Brando/ Mix it up in a tank and get a robot commando,” Bob Dylan sings in “My Own Version of You,” skulking by night around “morgues and monasteries/ L...
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BRENDAN BRISK’S ADVENTUROUS, GENRE-HOPPING ‘RELAXYLVANIA’
Brendan Brisk has big ambitions on “Relaxylvania.” On his sonically adventurous new album, he attempts to bring top-notch rock musicianship to pop songs -- or maybe he’s trying to bring pop sensibili...
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MAX CREEK’S ’45 AND LIVE’ A FUN, JAMMY TRIP
Rarely mentioned in the same sentence as the massively popular Grateful Dead or Phish, or even Widespread Panic or Sting Cheese Incident, the long-running New England band Max Creek deserves to be rec...
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OF MASKS AND MEN
It doesn't take long to become wrapped up in the glossy genre gymnastics of "Pony." "Dead of Night" kicks off Orville Peck's Sub Pop debut with a simple guitar that is both sonically and melodically r...
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MAKING DECISIONS IN ‘ERASERLAND’
Where is "Eraserland"? Is it the place where we go to forget things, or the place in which the things we think we need are wiped away to make room for new and better things? Perhaps in some mobius-s...
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FOREIGNER’S ‘LIVE AT THE RAINBOW ’78’ SHOWS WHY THE BAND BECAME SUPERSTARS
Fresh off its 40th anniversary, and with a newfound interest in '70s classic rock thanks to the smash Queen biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody," Foreigner has released "Live At The Rainbow '78," a video docume...
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GRETA VAN FLEET HONORS ITS FOREFATHERS ON DEBUT ALBUM
Bands have made a living sounding like Led Zeppelin for practically 50 years. The quartet's body of work has proven to be an irresistible inspiration, with the banshee wail vocals, towering blues-rock...
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