Mark Harrison is a London-based, UK acoustic bluesman. Turpentine is his latest self-produced release, featuring thirteen self-penned tracks that showcase his acoustic picking and tasteful slide-work. Harrison is always interesting. Originality … Read more
A round of applause for Athan Maroulis. In the meticulously researched liner notes that accompany The Complete Pompeii Recordings 1968-69, the actor/vocalist/record producer/writer does his level best to make sense … Read more
Dexter Romweber was born the seventh son of a coal miner’s daughter. Though he grew up on the classic rock staples of FM radio, he later steeped himself in 1950s … Read more
You can take this vivid and bone-honest autobio and consider it many ways. Maybe it’s the one legendary, never-ending show, where the rarities and greatest hits all get roared out … Read more
Kanye West was hospitalized in Los Angeles yesterday, for what was characterized by Fire Department dispatchers (heard on audio from the call obtained by TMZ) as a “psychiatric emergency.” West … Read more
John Coltrane’s untimely death at the age of 41 in 1967 wasn’t just a loss for jazz-lovers—it reverberated across all genres of music. Thankfully, the jazz legend and musical innovator … Read more
For Grateful Dead fans, the show’s never quite over. Even when lead guitarist Jerry Garcia died 21 years ago, the band kept on truckin’ in various configurations. Rounder Record’s new … Read more
For perhaps the first time in her eight year career, singer/songwriter Aly Tadros felt ready to drop all pretense and the temptation to hide behind irony, wearing her heart fully … Read more
Jaime Saso is a worldly guy. Born in Panama to an American mother and an Israeli father, he moved to a suburb of Dallas when he was young, but … Read more
Though Sharon Jones didn’t begin singing professionally until the final decades of her life– she spent twenty years working as a corrections officer out of Rikers Island prison– she burst … Read more
