Music Makes the Best Gift: 2020 Box Sets & Reissues
For all the things that went horribly wrong in 2020, it was a good year for deluxe box sets and album reissues! Here are…
Pop Culture
Review: GRAYSON CAPPS South Front Street: A Retrospective 1997-2019
South Front Street brings together a career-spanning collection of Grayson Capps songs that have been curated and re-tuned by GRAMMY award winner Trina Shoemaker,…
Review: Ghosts of West Virginia
I almost passed on this one. To tell you the truth, I really stopped listening to Steve Earle after Washington Square Serenade (2007). It…
Review: Good Souls Better Angels
Like Memphis Minnie before her, Lucinda Williams is tired of your shit– and it doesn’t take a rocket doctor to figure out what’s got…
Review: Hold My Beer Vol. 2
I confess that I’ve only been on the Randy Rogers bandwagon since last year’s Hellbent and that up until this point, I’ve only been…
Crucial Cinema: Once Upon a Time in the West
In the 1960s, Sergio Leone fired magic bullets across international cinema with his trilogy of films starring a young Clint Eastwood as the Man…
Review: The Invisible Man
I don’t think anyone expected a remake of the classic 1933 Universal Monster movie The Invisible Man to actually be good. The original, while…
Review: The Gentlemen
I want you to play a game with me, reader… Imagine a hot, young director who explodes onto the scene in the late ’90s…
Required Listening: Love Gun
It was 1977, the year of Star Wars, Smokey and the Bandit… And the makeup-clad quartet known as KISS! We’ve profiled KISS’s power-pop classic…