by Something Else Reviews Call them a guilty pleasure. (We have.) But the truth is, there’s more to Hall and Oates than the sum of their blow-dried caricature. So, we set about looking for tunes that made some points: That they brilliantly connected the dots between new wave and and rock music’s R&B ancestry. That they were more than just [...]
by Something Else Reviews After a long winter’s nap, let’s rock a while to some of our Yuletide favorites — from the jazzy (Ramsey Lewis and Joe Pass) to the downhome (Koko Taylor and Kermit Ruffins), from the offbeat (the Temptations tearing up “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer”) to the undiscovered (Erwilian, a terrific new find) … Click through the [...]
by Nick DeRiso Mark “Pocket” Goldberg’s Off the Alleyway, a rootsy Americana recording with the flickering neon-soul of a blues joint, stays well away from the beaten path. His sound is as eclectic as the country’s rolling byways, bringing in low-country pedal steel, back-pew harmonizing, the nostalgic wheeze of an accordion, and crunchy late-night guitar growls. Rumbling this musical gumbo [...]
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