SMASHING PUMPKINS REUNITE FOR THE SHINY AND OH SO BRIGHT TOUR
Walking into a Smashing Pumpkins show in 2018 requires all sorts of mental acrobatics on behalf of the viewer. With Pearl Jam, they are…
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ALBUM REVIEW: ‘TELL ME HOW YOU REALLY FEEL’ BY COURTNEY BARNETT
Courtney Barnett is simply the best rock star we’ve had in a long, long time, and Tell Me How You Really Feel is her…
LUCIUS IS A MILLION DOLLAR SECRET: P&W REVIEWS NUDES
The story goes that a very young Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel had recorded an album of acoustic folk tunes, originals and cover songs,…
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘ALWAYS ASCENDING’ BY FRANZ FERDINAND
“Float On” by Modest Mouse and “Take Me Out” by Franz Ferdinand could not be more different, but it was all of 14 years…
I’M TWENTY-TWO NOW, BUT I WON’T BE FOR LONG: SUNFLOWER BEAN AT ELSEWHERE
Sunflower Bean just might be saving Rock & Roll, and I’m not sure how many people know it. When they first formed in 2013,…
DRAWN TO A WITHERED HAND: DANIEL JOHNSTON & JEFF TWEEDY IN CHICAGO
It is said that seeing is believing. It is the main tenet of faith, and in the Christian faith that provides the groundwork for…
TOM PETTY AND THE AMERICAN HEARTBREAK
Tom Petty suffered a terminal cardiac arrest on the same day that a psychopath unleashed a torrent of bullets on a concert in Las…
THROUGH BEING COOL: LCD SOUNDSYTEM’S AMERICAN DREAM
Part of the responsibility of being a fan of LCD Soundsystem is having some dialogue with coolness. Whether Murphy & Co. accepted the mantle…
777 WORDS ON PIXIES, SUNFLOWER BEAN, & FANDOM IN NEW HAVEN
“That was Frank Black!” I shouted from the passenger seat of a car driving down Elm towards College Street Music Hall around seven o’clock,…
ALBUM REVIEW – ‘SLEEP WELL BEAST’ BY THE NATIONAL
By 1967, music pretty much sounded the way music was going to sound. Before then, music had slowly but surely transformed from a thing…