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Jonathan Demme’s passing was marked by tributes to Silence of the Lambs, an American horror classic. Demme would still be considered one of the great American directors even if that…
At first listen, London’s Cowbell doesn’t sound the slightest bit English; they sound like they come from the deep South, with their stripped down but watertight guitar-and drums combination –…
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The .38 Special lead singer’s debut escapes after 30 years of limbo.
I do a set of cover songs that may make the writer of both songs call me a wanker. One can only hope, anyway.
Radio City with Jon Grayson and Rob Ross delivers the baker’s dozen. Or… “Won’t you let me walk you home from school?…” Keep those cards and letters comin’ folks… Jon…
West Coast psych-folk crooner Levi Thomas is preparing his debut solo album, Billie, later this year.
The Commodores scored hit after hit in the ’70s and ’80s
In 2016, the #OscarsSoWhite campaign drew attention to whitewashing in Hollywood, although the practice has been going on long before hashtags were even invented. For generations, roles of people of…
It’s not enough that Paul Weller recently released his first soundtrack/score for the movie “Jawbone”; he now offers us his latest studio creation, A Kind Revolution. After the breathtaking one-two…
“Alien: Covenant” is one part chest-bursting thrills — and two parts “Intro to Humanities.”
For the first time in his long and storied career, Paul Weller has written, recorded and delivered his first movie soundtrack score, Jawbone: Music From the Film. Certainly, a labor…
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The Hangabouts, a hearty trio from the Detroit area, have just unleashed their sophomore full length album, Kits & Cats & Saxon Wives (a clever title!) and this one pops…
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Why did so many, when given the chance to speak, let Dylan speak for them?
“Flash Light” was the first #1 hit for any group in the Clinton empire
In these turbulent times, you may often wonder, “Where’s our Bob Dylan? Where’s the bard of the 2010s translating the dicey political and social climate into musical stanzas?” When the…
Chicken & the Chick Flicks’ Too Bad About the Sun, out now on Shinkoyo, is exhilarating for reasons that most records simply aren’t. A microtonal-poetry reading for a demented albeit…
You mean, they actually want a mouse with their pizza?
The mere fact that this album is titled Memphis immediately made my ears prick up – of course, I would have to take instant notice. But the music contained within…
Debra Winger and Tracy Letts star in a late middle age love story
Radio City With Jon Grayson & Rob Ross: Episode Twelve… dozen beats eleven! The dynamic team of Jon Grayson and Rob Ross once again deliver with a deeply intense conversation…
She turns herself round and she smiles and she says, “This is it, that’s the end of the joke.” What’s THAT supposed to mean? Some songs are ambiguous. Some songs…
To hear some good reverb-drenched post-rock on the radio dial or the event horizon, you can do a heck of a lot worse than Heron, the Pennsylvania quartet that made…
