Album Reviews

Jethro Tull The String Quartets Reviewed by: Jane Roser At the tail end of 2015, Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson toured the U.S. with an innovative rock opera which took a thought provoking look at the band’s namesake (eighteenth century British agriculturalist Jethro Read More

Jeb Loy Nichols Country Hustle Reviewed by: Geno Thackara Remember radios with tuning dials? They’d be fairly reliable at best, often just a nuisance, and subject to going fuzzy at annoying times if you happened to bump the table. Or even if not. Sometimes, though, sliding Read More

Said the Whale As Long As Your Eyes Are Wide  Reviewed by: Ziggy Merritt Dramatic changes often act as a catalyst for interesting results. Interesting does not always mean good of course. Sometimes, “interesting” can be laughably bad, or it can help define something singularly Read More

Aimee Mann Mental Illness Reviewed by: Max Miller Music of all stripes is getting weirder. Angrier. Livelier. Producers working in hip-hop and electronic music are concocting stranger, more progressive sounds which, thanks to rapid dissemination across online channels, steadily Read More

Eric Bibb Migration Blues Reviewed by: Lauren Rosier The Blues Music Award winner, singer/songwriter Eric Bibb, returns with his latest album, Migration Blues (Stony Plain Records)- a 15-track collection of insightful and timely songs. On Migration Blues, Bibb focuses mainly on Read More

Knox Hamilton The Heights Reviewed by: Ziggy Merritt Whenever I run across the phrase “arena pop-rock” I tend to cringe. Lately that same phrase reminds me of past-prime Coldplay and U2- both bands have produced their fair share of ear candy back in their heyday, but Read More