6/28/2011
King of the novelty record for the MTV generation, "Weird Al" Yankovic has spent a career mocking, exposing, and needling the biggest names in pop, sometimes nailing his victims with a satirical skewer …
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6/28/2011
There's no more solid, influential, and respected figure in traditional country than the great George Strait. He got his major label break in 1980 after studying agriculture at Southwest Texas State, w …
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6/21/2011
She has a voice that carves effortlessly through three octaves, a wealth of obscure literary and cultural allusions (Wilhelm Reich in "Cloudbusting"; G. I. Gurdjieff in "Them Heavy People"), and a repu …
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6/21/2011
There's always been a strong cinematic element in Kate Bush's work - her 1993 album, The Red Shoes (featuring "Moments of Pleasure"), was inspired by the Michael Powell movie of the same name; with "Sa …
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6/21/2011
Little Feat had what it takes to become one of the best live bands in rock history - they were tight because they were loose (natural) and technically gifted (piano man Bill Payne was classically train …
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6/21/2011
Die-hard Little Feat aficionados know that to truly grasp the nuts of the band you have to go right back to their self-titled debut album, which didn't exactly fly off the shelves in 1971 and is still …
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6/21/2011
Sonic Youth mainstay Thurston Moore recorded his debut solo album in 1994, the same year he and wife Kim Gordon (also in Sonic Youth) had their first child, which may explain the leaning towards pop an …
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6/21/2011
The Arctic Monkeys story reads like the carefully spun tale of a myth-raking publicist. Really, now - these guys formed a band because they were bored? And, four years later, they just happened …
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6/21/2011
The honeyed, cheek-to-cheek harmonies of a slow-burning "Baby I'm Yours" seem like a random golden-oldies reference from one of England's hippest young acts - until you realize that frontman Alex Turne …
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