Daily Newsletter, February 13, 2024

MARIKA HACKMAN BIG SIGH CHRYSALIS RECORDS Taking a road less travelled is not a path you would expect from an artist that loosely falls within the singer-songwriter category. Such a road takes not only artistic courage, but the ample ability to do so, and throughout her releases so far, particularly her album Any Human Friend […]

To let a legend be washed away with the March waters

JAMES JONATHAN CLANCY SPRECATO MAPLE DEATH RECORDS There are not that many nominally called singer songwriters that have the stamina and inventiveness to both run a record label that goes beyond their own work and record their own music. Listening to his latest album Sprecato, (wasted, squandered) in the case of Canadian/Italian artist James Jonathan […]

Do you know where you were on the afternoon of Feb. 11, 2012? I do. I was covering the Grammys in Los Angeles. More specifically, I was watching Diana Ross accept a lifetime achievement award. I remember it clearly — because that’s precisely when the Internet started blowing up with reports that Whitney Houston had […]

Out-and-out progressive rock it isn’t, but the 1998 record’s shared values influenced Steven Wilson, Anathema, Radiohead, Dream Theater, Katatonia and many others

Read Stuart Berman’s review of the album.

A new biography examines the enigma of the musician.

The Beatles may have had brilliant pieces of prose in their work, but what does this song full of nonsense supposed to mean?

Ratt tales, Factory girls, Holiday memories, business lessons, Plant clippings, deep pockets and more new additions to your reading list:   World Infestation: The Ratt Story By Greg Prato THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “During the mid-’80s, Ratt was one of the biggest hard rock/heavy metal bands in the United States. Turn on MTV, and it […]

“Today, Stein’s legacy lay more with her persona than it does with her actual work.” Remembering Gertrude Stein as a subversive queer poet on her 150th birthday. | Lit Hub Criticism “For its very l…

1970s comedy classics Monty Python And The Holy Grail and The Life Of Brain wouldn’t have got off the ground if it hadn’t been for George Harrison, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd