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In which Jason and Jeff fall into a deep, pillowy-soft Cuneta hole
You can’t say these eight bands didn’t have their chance to do it one last time before the world came to an end.
Kelly Stitzel looks back at 2012 in music and ranks her favorite albums and more.
Due to the extreme length of this 2012 year-end recap, Michael Fortes recommends that you skip ahead to the entry on Joey Dosik.
This is the final edition of World’s Worst Songs before Christmas, so here are a few short takes on three reviled holiday records, all involving animals, all of which you…
Listening to Blur in concert is nice, but seeing Blur in concert is better.
In more than four decades in the music business, Jimi Jamison has worn quite a few different hats. While perhaps best known for his work with Chicago-based AOR rockers Survivor,…
Happy holidays from a former soap star with nothing left to do but rock on
Some Furs and some friends look back on “Forever Now” as it turns 30
In which Carly Rae Jepsen and a plastic Ukranian woman remind us of “The Facts of Life”
Rob Smith reviews Nine Times Blue’s debut album, “Falling Slowly.”
Taking it back to where the legend began, Epic makes a Legacy of Texas Flood.
Bottom Feeders closes out 2012 with The Lady of Rage, L.A. Guns and some K7.
Beki Hemingway rocks. No, seriously. She rocks, as in “rocks.”
In which we finally get to the stuff that doesn’t make us cringe…
Trying to listen to a classic, groundbreaking album like Rage Against the Machine with fresh ears two decades after its release can often pose a bit of a challenge. On…
Stuff your stockings with five random tracks and share five of your own!
Turns out Michael Buble isn’t the only one who can sleepwalk his way through a holiday standard
I wanted to write a year-in-review piece about jazz in 2012, so I looked through the archives of my recently ended show, The Jazz Session, to find a narrative thread…
Ken’s Shane annual gift guide
Their long musical partnership has been good to David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash. During the period when they added Neil Young to the group, it was very good…
Sandals and a robe mean never having to stay in tune
Booker T & The MG’s never equaled the success of their first record
