Orion: The Man Who Would Be King
I can remember at the age of 14 encountering the records featuring the glittery masked man on the cover. I didn’t really understand what the…
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Cool French Music That You Should Know About
Actual Concerts I Saw and What Little I Remember About Them
Breaking A Monster
Coeur de Pirate – Roses
Sinatra: The Chairman by James Kaplan
Forgotten 80s: Rockin’ With Rita
The New England Shake-Up
The Bellfuries: Workingman’s Bellfuries
Barrence Whitfield and the Savages – Under the Savage Sky
“It will be a matter of time, perhaps decades, before Boston’s Barrence Whitfield assumes his rightful position in the history of music,” wrote John O’Neill…
How To Buy A Polka Record
When zipping through the bins of a Goodwill or Salvation Army, if you’re judging temptation by the album covers, polka records win hands down. But…
Last Night At T.T. the Bear’s Place
On May 19, 2015, The Boston Globe reported that the Cambridge, MA dive bar T.T. the Bear’s Place would be closing its doors for good…
Stephen Merritt: The Scrabble Interview
Last year when Magnetic Fields guy Stephen Merritt and New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast’s book 101 Two-Letter Words (Amazon, iBooks, Powell’s), which aside from being…
Paul de Jong
Cellist Paul de Jong is best known for his work as one half of The Books (Amazon, iTunes), a duo renowned for their one of a…
Jeff Bridges – Sleeping Tapes
When Jeff Bridges debuted an ad during the Super Bowl that featured him chanting at the bedside of a sleeping couple, with a link to…
John Carpenter – Lost Themes
From the opening notes of “Vortex,” the first track on Lost Themes (Amazon, iTunes), it’s clear that the album could only be the work of…
Rhiannon Giddens
This is the other part of an interview I presented earlier, which had Giddens talking specifically about racism in old music, how to approach that…
Chris Stein/Negative: Me, Blondie, and the Advent of Punk
Chris loves Debbie. If you got to spend your youth with the most beautiful woman in the world, wouldn’t you take a lot of pictures…
Rhiannon Giddens talks racism, history, and now
I had the opportunity to interview Rhiannon Giddens, last original member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops and an extremely talented person with a bright future…
Dom Flemons
I had the pleasure of interviewing multi-instrumentalist Dom Flemons a couple years back, and in honor of his upcoming solo debut, I wanted to present…