Reviews

The Foreign Resort

The Foreign Resort’s new EP, The American Dream, finds its way somewhere between the music of the ’80s and the sentiment of today, and to top it all off, Mikkel … Read more

Peter Frampton

When you had one of the best selling albums of all time — in this case, Frampton Comes Alive — and it’s well over twenty years since you celebrated the … Read more

Ferris & The Wheels

This is the perfect album people who are sick of “hipster” music, trying so hard to be cool. Ferris & the Wheels are a group of guys who aren’t afraid … Read more

Clarence “The Blues Man” Turner

DC favorite, Clarence Turner, is a multi-instrumentalist who can get folks dancing to his straight-ahead guitar-driven, horn-infused blues. On this, his second release, Turner plays a tasteful guitar and handles … Read more

Duke Robillard

Founder of the swinging Roomful Of Blues, a rocking Pleasure King and a high-flying Fabulous Thunderbird for a spell. A jazz man, a front porch pickin’ blues man and one-time … Read more

The Cox Family

A picture’s worth a thousand words. If that old adage is anywhere near on the money, these 270 words can’t possibly do justice to the twelve scenes painted on Gone … Read more

The Knickerbockers

Four CD’s representing a band that only managed one bonafide hit single over the course of their career might seem to some a bit superfluous, and indeed it’s hard to … Read more

CMJ Music Marathon 2015

Over the years, you learn how to tame the wild beast that is CMJ. You learn which venues are worth the trek across the Williamsburg Bridge, and which bands are … Read more

City and Colour

Anyone who has been anxiously awaiting the arrival of If I Should Go Before You after hearing lead track, “Woman,” will be pleased to know the wait was worth it. … Read more

Kinky Friedman

All photos by Mark Smith  Kinky Friedman is without a doubt the most un-politically correct person on the planet… and he loves it. It’s simply his persona, and has been … Read more