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Friday, June 13, 2025

D. Anson Brody: A Song a Week for a Year

Aimee Mann

The Red Herrings

Five Times August

VVOES’ Get Your Life

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Michelle Malone

Sugarfoot is one of those c.d.’s that can be inserted in the space between the blues and rock without really adding anything new to...

The Killers

In no universe do mohawks and waistcoats go together. But The Killers continue to churn out throbbing, synth-laden floor-filler that's equal parts Roxy Music...

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Darkness, Dimensions, Disillusions Stone Machine Electric (Sludgelord Records) Darkness, Dimensions, Disillusions is Mid-Cities-repping Stone Machine Electric’s sixth full-length, though given the length of the “doom jazz” duo’s...

The Shortest Distance

The Shortest Distance is an alias for activist Ramsey Sprague, an early driving force behind the 1919 Hemphill radical arts/educational collective. Folks might not...

John-Alex Mason

For more than one generation of fans, the blues "belonged" to old black men with slurred voices. White fans who cared at all celebrated the...

Linda Oh Trio

On the cover of her debut CD, Malaysian-born, Australian-bred bassist Linda Oh appears as a graphic novel heroine, silhouetted against a full moon, gazing...

Raul Malo

Lucky One (Concord Music Group) By Tom Geddie Raul Malo, mostly known as lead singer of the Grammy-winning country band The Mavericks, has a pleading, dramatic...

David “Honeyboy” Edwards

David "Honeyboy" Edwards is no longer in his prime, but he's still got the feel for the old-time, acoustic blues. Born into a sharecropper family...

John Denver

John Denver was a consistently — some would say mercilessly — sweet and upbeat-sounding performer, even on his sad songs. The best of his hits...

Drug Mountain

One wonders if Lester Bangs was foreseeing this when he wrote that rock 'n' roll is a "raw wail from the bottom of the...