The great and iconic guitarist Dick Dale has gone to the riffs and waves of the other side.
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The major recent music news in my life was seeing Robbie Fulks play a really fun set at City Winery in Boston last night. This is the third time I've.
If it's Saturday night, it's time to talk tunes. Now that The Paranoid Style's Elizabeth Nelson is writing for LGM, it is even more ridiculous that I provide my pointless.
I had the privilege of seeing Mdou Moctar in Providence last week. Representing a new generation of Tuareg guitarists that is more connected to world dance music than the tradition of the elders, this was one hell of a show. The first half of the...
I listen to a lot of music. Basically, I listen to music every second I am at my desk or in my car. I also don't listen to the same.
Been way, way too long since I did one of these posts. It's a long one! When I was in Nashville last weekend, I did something I always wanted to.
Back when I lived in Austin in the late 2000s, one of my favorite things to do was to see Alejandro Escovedo at the Continental Club. I probably saw him there 6 or 7 times in those three years. This was after his comeback after...
Let's talk some music. We can argue whether Wayne Shorter is the greatest living jazz composer, but we can't argue that he should be in the conversation. He just turned.
The music video for Childish Gambino's chart topping song “This Is America” won three MTV Video Music Awards this past week, including Best Direction, Best Choreography, and Best Video With.
We need some more discussion of Aretha. Here's a bunch of remembrances. All Songs Considered. Turns out she liked playing a little golf. Her episode of Murphy Brown. Christgau. Finally, this is a good piece by her biographer on her deep complexity as a human....
We lost another multigenerational political and popular icon this week with the passing of Aretha Franklin. Though she lived a full life, performing right until the very end, I still.
The Queen of Soul has died at the age of 76. Despite having a very large music library, I am not much of a completist and so I have huge.