Robert Gomez
Current popular music usually veers into either the lighthearted lane or the intense, leaving little room for artists who both rock and groove. Enter:...
Horse The Band
Without a stitch of melody or commitment to anything resembling rhythm, Horse The Band creates the ultimate pop quiz for your ears.
Listening to...
Brad Colerick
Brad Colerick’s Lines in the Dirt is filled with smooth country songs about love and a deranged ex-wife, corn and the Jesus you don’t...
Glen Reynolds
If you go to MySpace.com/Chomsky, you’ll find info on MIT’s resident geopolitical provocateur Noam Chomsky instead of Chomsky, the Denton garage-rock outfit that, between...
Glennda Hill
Glennda Hill’s debut album Angel Eyes is a faithful-to-the-originals collection of jazz classics and some that could be classics, evoking Peggy Lee, Duke Ellington,...
Gretchen Peters
Burnt Toast & Offerings is a thematically pure collection of a dozen songs about yearning and waiting from Gretchen Peters, an accomplished songwriter who’s...
Maynard Ferguson
Maynard Ferguson’s career spanned nearly six decades, from the late 1940s until his death last year, during which he had star turns as a...
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney Memory Almost Full (Mercury) On a first, casual listen, Paul McCartney’s new Memory Almost Full seems rather ordinary.
Second and subsequent listens...
Paula Cole
If you were a member of a gay gym circa 1998, it’s unclear which one of two hits — seemingly played on a continuous...
Fair to Midland
During the first notes of “Dance of the Manatee,” the opening track on Fair to Midland’s new disc, Fables from a Mayfly: What I...