Many people are not yet aware that Ryan Adams can write his own songs since his fame has exploded recently only after covering Taylor Swift’s 1989, and most of those fans are probably not aware of anything but instagram, quinoa, and a combination of the two. But Adams has wrote literally hundreds of songs, and…
For some reason when I saw the cover of Josh Ritter’s new album Sermon on the Rocks I thought it was going to be an album covering different versions of Billy Joel’s “Uptown Girl” and I was not only going to boycott listening but was going to kill myself in (understandable) protest. Thankfully his greaser…
Recently I discovered this band and wrote a little something before I had a chance to dig into to the full album that dropped in August. And at first listen I was hesitant to write another post about it because I was afraid that it’s sort of gimmicky nostalagia sound would wear off on me…
A lot of Lucero fans are going to hate this album. I realize that is a strange way to start reviewing an album that I actually like, but I felt that way upon first listen and I still do a week or so later. All a Man Should Do doesn’t even feel like a Lucero…
I spent Wednesday night in a Vermont venue surrounded by Vermont liberals singing “There is No God, So Clap Your Hands Together.” But it wasn’t the wet dream of a conservative who forgot to prepare his latest hot take before going on screen at Fox News. It was a Frank Turner concert and we…
When Ryan Adams covered Oasis’s “Wonderwall” for his album Love is Hell, he made the song his own in a way that made Noel Gallagher admit that Adams was “the only person that ever got that song right”. It’s so hauntingly beautiful that no frat bro could ever attempt his version at 2am and that…
Motion City Soundtrack’s last album sucked. And as someone who backed them up with each change in sound and record label over the years until Go came out I don’t feel bad about saying it. The best songs were “Circuits and Wires”, a track actually recorded for the previous album, and their first single “True…
New England has about a week left of good weather before it gets terrible again. Millions of jerks that bitched about the heat (or the humidity) all summer will soon get their wish and have cold weather to complain about instead. It’s awful. The climate and the people. Which is why I’m leaving. But I’ll…
Last night as I was affirming my old age by skipping around the late night talk shows I stumbled upon a band playing on Conan that made me think I had stumbled upon the end of The Blues Brothers. A band known as Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats were performing their apparent single “S.O.B”….
This week music “news” was made as asshole musician Jack White continued his mostly one-sided fight against Black Keys musicians Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, who are presumably not as much of assholes. According to Rolling Stone, there have actually been a few petty incidents over the years but this so called “beef” is now over….
