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Max Bien Kahn and Chris Lively Reviewed
November 3, 2024
Max Bien Kahn – Saturday Night
Just take a look at all the rich and the beautiful sitting in front of an interviewer on late-night television and getting admired by millions of viewers. Would you really like to ring any of those people up and ask them how their day…
Jett Kwong and Grady Philip Drugg Reviewed
October 30, 2024
Jett Kwong – Seeking Splendor
The people at the record labels have been trying to understand where it all went wrong for a while. It used to be that all they needed to do was find some talented musicians, press their songs onto vinyl records or CDs and rush them to…
Eolya and Julien Filion Reviewed
October 23, 2024
Eolya – Sál
All great artists are fated to, at one point or another, feel as if they’ve been hard done by fate and that they should have been born at a different time. Indeed, the perceived glory of the past is not something that belongs exclusively to artists.
Casey Frazier and Laura Zarougian Reviewed
October 10, 2024
Casey Frazier – If We Grow Old
Many kids try to record a couple of songs or start a high school band. The ones who can afford it make a bid to be pop stars. They put out a video and designed an online marketing campaign. Most of them stop once the money or the…
Jeff Fein and Calotype Reviewed
October 9, 2024
Jeff Fein – In Front of a Screen
The great writers who lived during historical events usually didn’t bother jolting down any words about it. For the most part, they were too busy thinking about history and all the historical events that happened in the past, so…
Tom Costello & The Turnaround - "Coastline" Review
September 20, 2024
Other than Medieval monks stuck inside the monastery copying old books and a few writers suffering from agoraphobia, artists are made to roam. This is why, primarily, the rockstar autobiographies released in recent years are travel books. But is this just something that…
JD Hinton and Doug Walther Reviewed
September 19, 2024
JD Hinton – Trouble Time
Townes van Zandt, the great philosopher of country music, sang about kinds of troubles that, should they ever find you, would break your back and leave you with nothing. That isn’t exactly a cheerful subject, the kind that pop music…
Manuel Polin and Lexi Steinberg Review
September 12, 2024
Manuel Polin – Elogio a La Luna
Look, singling out a group of people as being greater at one thing than everyone else is, generally speaking, not a kind act. But you can sort of get away with it provided that every other participant agrees and if it is true. When it…
Meagre Martin and Two Fields Over Reviewed
September 9, 2024
Meagre Martin – Never Thought
Eventually, all the great artists became children again. That’s if they got it right. That’s if they followed the right muse. Picasso used to say that all of his life’s work was a process of acquiring skill and technique and then…