Austin Lucas: Alive In the Hot Zone December 1, 2020Oh, country music. Rock ‘n’ roll’s fickle cousin. It’s not a genre with which I’m particularly acquainted. But...
Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties: Routine Maintenance August 28, 2019There is this funny world that some indie rock bands like Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties inhabits....
Restorations: LP5000 January 7, 2019At only seven tracks, calling this an LP is kind of a stretch. In fact, I’m not even...
Titus Andronicus: Local Business October 23, 2012Titus Andronicus set a high bar with The Monitor. That album spoke to me in such a way...
The Gaslight Anthem: American Slang September 3, 2010I recall reading somewhere where the lead singer of Gaslight Anthem, Brian Fallon, called his band’s Bruce Springsteen...
The Hold Steady: Heaven is Whenever September 3, 2010This is one of those bands that I think I always liked conceptually more than I liked in...
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Greatest Hits August 21, 2010Tom Petty has always sounded like a hybrid of Dylan, Springsteen and Jackson Browne to me. Ok, not...
Bruce Springsteen: Born In the U.S.A. December 26, 2009Not only did I lip-sync to “Dancing In the Dark” in a 7th grade “talent” show, the Born...
