Over the Rhine doles out their fifteenth installment of genius with The Trumpet Child. I’d only been in Europe for a month when I found myself desperate for a true...

Essential Elvis: Chapter 24. Elvis As Recorded At Madison Square Garden was issued in June of 1972. While this album only reached Number 11 on the Billboard charts, it...

Cooper celebrates his 25th album with a gem. Alice Cooper is an endlessly intriguing figure. Emerging from the late 1960s, he purposefully deciding to create an over the...

Hercules And Love Affair injects some disco love into contemporary music. It's always intriguing to hear of collaborations as musical or side projects rather than as...

Quivver's jovial consideration for getting things just right makes this one hell of a fun electro-pop album. John Graham has been easing in and out of the shadows for the...

OMFG, it's not bad. More people seem to be invested in Miley Cyrus’ trip to adulthood and maturity than will vote in the election. Ever since her conception at the...

Two Men With The Blues will undoubtedly take yours away. Every other 2008 album released, from those already out to those awaiting a future Tuesday, are officially put on...

If a score was written to accompany the failure of a suspension bridge, this would be it. Have you ever lost a chunk of your life by tackling a piece of art that, in...

Double Trouble - the core around which great music is built. It's sort of ironic that the two members of a rock and roll, or any popular music band for that matter,...

A review of Will Oldham's latest. Lie Down In the Light is in many ways an atypical Will Oldham record. For the most part, the themes most often associated with his...

Essential Elvis: Chapter 23. Elvis Presley released his second Christmas album on October 20, 1971. Elvis Sings The Wonderful World Of Christmas was an album that sold...

David Bromberg returns with an excellent album of acoustic American music. David Bromberg has had a long and storied musical career. He performed at the historic Isle of...

Amelia's latest album, A Long Lovely List of Repairs, delivers more of their beautiful signature amalgamation. Once I took a job in a small jazz club. While the half...

Something a little different from the Latin music legend. You gotta hand it to Sergio Mendes. The ageless Latin musical star has flourished for more than four decades,...

Steve Allee's latest proves again that this contemporary jazz pianist can more than cut it with the straight ahead stuff. Last year we touched on a solid release by Steve...

This album signals a shift to a more introspective Ray. Amy Ray has been through a lot of changes over the past couple of years. Her musical partnership with Emily...

Essential Elvis: Chapter 22 Elvis returned to the studio in mid June of 1970 and cut 35 tracks. By this time he was literally recording live in the studio with a minimum...

Before there was Kiss, before there was Marilyn Manson, there was Alice Cooper. Before there was Kiss, before there was Marilyn Manson, there was Alice Cooper. Back in...

Thirty-six years on, this bootleg remains an onslaught of rock ‘n’ roll abandon. In June 1972, David Bowie released The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders...

Anya Singleton rocks with soul, while Emory Joseph applies a youthful bounce to the Garcia-Hunter canon. Anya Singleton, The Other SideAnya Singleton's first...