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…
Read MoreI 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…
Read More“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…