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Artwork for Grant-Lee Phillips album “In the Hour of Dust”

Grant-Lee Phillips “In the Hour of Dust”

September 1, 2025 Peter Thompson 0

A thoughtful, introspective, at times autobiographical album by a renowned singer, songwriter and painter. Although known for his musical exploits, Grant-Lee Phillips first started out as a visual artist; however, on arriving in Los Angeles in […]

Marshall Crenshaw “From the Hellhole”

August 29, 2025 Bryan Bance 1

Marshall Crenshaw emerges from the Hellhole with a solid collection of recent recordings. It’s been over 40 years since Marshall Crenshaw burst on the scene with his eponymous debut, and he returns with a collection of […]

WC Beck “A Mostly Quiet Life”

August 29, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

Upbeat latest from well-travelled singer-songwriter. “A Mostly Quiet Life” is something of a hybrid album. Most of the songs were written between 2010 and 2012 when Beck lived in Portland. During a break in touring, he […]

Susy Wall “Black Lights”

August 29, 2025 Andrew Raw 0

A sumptuous and poetic love letter to The Black Country. This is Susy Wall’s second album after 2024’s “The Spaces in Between”. Wall has lived in the Black Country for 25 years, and the album, funded […]

Book cover of Kristina R. Gaddy & Rhiannon Giddens book Go Back and Fetch It

Book Review: Kristina R. Gaddy and Rhiannon Giddens “Go Back And Fetch It: Recovering Early Black Music In The Americas For Fiddle and Banjo”

August 29, 2025 Andy Short 2

Kristina R. Gaddy is a Swedish-American writer who has researched and written hard-hitting non-fiction books. Notably, “A Most Perilous World: The True Story of the Young Abolitionists and Their Crusade Against Slavery” and “Flowers In The […]