TOBACCO CITY HORSES SCISSOR TAIL RECORDS The term cosmic country has been flying around since the time it was coined by late Gram Parsons. And while quite a few artists have been given that label, not that many truly deserved to hold it when [...]
DEBORAH HOLLAND I MADE IT THIS FAR Deborah Holland has had an interesting career, thus far. She made her professional debut with the band Animal Logic, which included jazz great Stanly Clarke, and former member of The Police, Stewart Copeland, [...]
JETHRO TULL CURIOUS RUMINANT SONY MUSIC Jethro Tull and Ian Anderson have not worked at this pace since the 1970s, and this is Jethro Tull’s third studio album since 2022. It seems that Anderson and company have a great deal of energy and are [...]
BLAIR PACKHAM THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM INDEPENDENT The Impossible Dream is Blair Packham’s fourth solo album (he is a former member of the band The Jitters) and his first since 2017’s Unpopular Pop. Packham has been working on The Impossible Dream [...]
ANDY BELL PINBALL WANDERER SONIC CATHEDRAL With his band Ride, Andy Bell helped pioneer and popularize shoegaze, which was massively popular in the ‘90s. For a period of time, he was also the bassist for Oasis and regularly made songwriting [...]
DOMESTIC DRAFTS ONLY THE SINGER GLAMOUR GOWNS Andy Cush’s name is probably familiar for those listeners following Garcia Peoples, as he is the band’s bassist, co-composer, and vocalist. He also runs a Substack page with a hefty [...]
THE CHILLS SPRING BOARD: THE EARLY UNRECORDED SONGS FIRE RECORDS Has the late Martin Phillipps been given enough credit for his role in bringing something new and fresh to modern rock music with his band The Chills? The debate on that one has [...]
APAULL HOMOGENY FURNACE ROOM RECORDS With the release of his latest album, the electronic music artist apaull continues his steady drop of thought provoking, dance-inspired creations. For those who are aware of apaull’s work, Homogeny will have [...]