on the road Archive
on the road
2017 is barely three months old — too soon for a “best album of the year” status report? Because I’m thinking The Navigator by Hurray For The Riff
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It’s easy to fall under the spell of Cate Le Bon. When you listen to the breezy, loopy “Rock Pool,” try closing your eyes tightly enough to trigger
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I’m feeling a bit nostalgic for the 90s. This is obviously a glaring sign that I’m, er, maturing, and although I haven’t begun to beat young’uns over the
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on the road
Back when I worked at one particular national music magazine, said journal decided the way to connect with the kids was to send the staff to live at
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on the road
Ahh, the deathless sound of sexy cool female vocals atop a driving electronic beat. It draws a line through forty years of pop music, starting from its Eurodisco
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on the road
If you grew up more than fifty miles from the US-Canada border, there’s a better than average chance you don’t even know who Sloan is. And that, friends,
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concert review
From downtempo drone to reverb-soaked classic shoegaze, the Majestic Theatre in Detroit offered everything a gracefully-aging concertgoer could want on a chilly autumn night. Minimalist mavens Low and
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I’m dating myself by confessing this, but some of us are still very affected by the vibe carved out on the B-52s’ first two albums: that cool, danceable
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