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Many moons ago, after I first picked up a bass, but likely before I experimented with any gateway drugs, my older sister was passing through a ...

Neneh Cherry’s first solo record in nearly 20 years, produced by Four Tet? How could you not feel the excitement and anticipation of what such a...

There is a landscape in my mind that is passing me by. I am usually looking at it from the inside of a moving car, although sometimes I'm in the...

I know very little about Eric Church, or country music, for that matter. I decided to write about Church's new record because I thought my....

Most people will be familiar with Neil Finn through his work in the '80s with Crowded House. A few years after their release, I began to appreciate...

Taking into account the nearly 30 Guided by Voices records and his equally extensive solo work, one can safely assume that Robert Pollard has...

I had to stop thinking about garage-rock for a spell; the sunglasses and shorts were bringing me down. As someone who has been reviewed poorly and...

It was Jim Thirlwell who first introduced me to the fact that deserts sing. Each dune has its own sound. Shifting sands create distinctive...

Dianne Reeves is the type of artist I wasn’t supposed to be a fan of: a modern-day chanteuse who encapsulated the dignity, virtuosity and....

This record moves me deeply. So does the previous Sun Kil Moon record, 2012's Among the Leaves, and the two records under Mark Kozelek's..

There are moments in life when the traffic clears and the streets quiet and the ten thousand things fall away from us. Life comes briefly into focus.

Some composers are more about other music than others. Perhaps no one was about other music more than Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924), the virtuosic...