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Morning Wars and Goodspace Reviewed
October 24, 2025
Morning Wars – Man with a Gun
There’s a reason why 1960s pop-rock groups were so beloved. There must also be a way to explain why most of the music can, for some listeners, feel dated, sound like it belongs to a completely different era from the one in which…
Bells Deep - “Fog” Review
October 22, 2025
Bells Deep makes music that makes you feel sorry about the state of the world and glad that you’re hearing about it from particular sources and closing your ears to all others. If, indeed, for all these years, you’d have trusted most of the pop stars anxious to give you…
Salarymen and Dash Hammerstein Reviewed
October 14, 2025
Salarymen – If You Want Me
When it comes to pop culture, the people who make content for it must, invariably, answer a simple, important question: do they want to be like their parents, or will they do everything in their power to avoid it?
There’s no middle…
Top 10 Songs by Buffalo Springfield
October 10, 2025
For a man notorious for following his own muse wherever this may take him, Neil Young has been a part of at least two legendary bands. The lesser-discussed, and arguably better, of the two is Buffalo Springfield.
Buffalo Springfield sounded good, looked cool, and…
TY FREEMAN and Flashlight Faces Reviewed
September 26, 2025
TY FREEMAN – One Way Love
There’s no point in rebuilding the house from the ground up when the walls are sturdy and the roof ain’t looking like it’s going to start leaking anytime soon. That’s precisely what fans of classic rock think about this style of…
Cliff Root and Drew Manchego Band Reviewed
September 9, 2025
Cliff Root – Holy Visions
You don’t need the misery, but it certainly helps. And, if your quest is to become a great artist, finding something to fight against is almost guaranteed to be a requirement. Kids imagining themselves playing big stages and having…
Top 100 Greatest Drummers of All Time (In My Opinion)
August 30, 2025
The greatest drummers of all time are musicians blessed with impeccable timing who are diligently studied by those who want to play like them. Still, I suppose that if you go by Spinal Tap standards, they’re the folks in whose biographies bizarre gardening accidents…
Seola Station and BRIARS Reviewed
August 19, 2025
Seola Station – Rooftops
The greatest rock artists were occasionally easy to like because of danceable, hook-filled songs that they produced and, more often than not, hard to understand. A few of them produced an endless stream of hits, and the majority of their…
Cowboy Mouth - “Cover Yo' Azz” Review
August 15, 2025
The story goes that The Replacements, the premier independent rock band of the 1980s, could routinely deliver a live set filled with awe-inspiring original compositions played to perfection. However, on many occasions, they preferred to drunkenly perform whatever covers they…