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The Sound of the Suburbs

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The Hissing of Summer Lawns isn’t a ‘transitional album.’ It’s an arrival.

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30,000 lbs of Bananas

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Give or take a few thousand…Guinness stunt by a local supermarket brings back memories of Harry Chapin’s epic song based on a real incident

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Klaus Schulze

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Synth pioneer goes from analog to digital and back again.

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RIP Ricky Gardiner: Our Man in Berlin (and Paris)

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Farewell, iPod

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Vangelis: In Memoriam

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London Is Drowning and I Live by the River

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Flooding has been high on the minds of denizens of the British capital forever, really, because it is an island after all.

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Miles Davis/In Person Friday & Saturday Nights At the Blackhawk

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Jim Croce: You Don’t Tug on Superman’s Cape

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Fifty years on, his songs still ring true

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Texas Sun & Texas Moon/Khruangbin & Leon Bridges

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Is it just the Lemon Tag talking or do both of these acts call to me, beckoning  a thorough investigation of their working parts so that I can properly enjoy the gumbo of Khruangbin and Leon Bridges’ Texas Sun and newly released Texas Moon EPs?

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