Like so much of the best music, it’s hard to pin down the sound of Budokan Boys. Jeff T. Byrd and Michael Jeffrey Lee – Americans who met in New Orleans in 2012 and have since settled in Europe –… Read More
It takes a certain kind of tunnel vision in today’s socio-cultural climate to write an album about someone killing their mother and then eating her afterward. But to set that kind of storyline to a nu-metal soundtrack straight out of… Read More
What It Is, the new album from multi-instrumentalist, producer, and Quantic collaborator Sly5thAve, represents a triumph of musicianship over genre conventions. Sylvester Uzoma Onyejiaka II’s second LP is sleek, polished, and luscious, a gentle display of finesse that pulls from… Read More
1939 is often considered one of the great years for the studio production system of Hollywood. This is the year of Victor Fleming’s Gone with the Wind and Wizard of Oz, Frank Capra’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Edmund Goulding’s… Read More
We all know the line. Even those of us who have never seen the film or heard of it directly know the line: “There are eight million stories in the Naked City. This has been one of them.” It immediately… Read More
Much like life, time is precious for the North Carolina-based string-band quartet known as Mipso, especially in the age of a deadly virus that has left much of the world feeling helpless and hopeless. Maybe that’s why, instead of exploring… Read More
A lot can happen in 18 months. Careers can blossom and die. Governments can rise and fall. Entire genres of music can emerge and dwindle in just one and a half trips around the sun. So why are we so… Read More
10. “Whatever Gets You Through the Night” It seems hard to believe that this was John Lennon’s only #1 solo single in his lifetime. While fellow bandmates Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr all racked up such hits early… Read More
John Lennon’s short life can be roughly divided into two periods: his first 31 years in England and the remaining nine years since moving to New York City, as a born-again American. Although the latter period was significantly shorter, it… Read More
For many growing up in the 1960s, the Beatles’ revolutionary music grew into revolutionary passion as the decade progressed. Although John Lennon became an icon of peace and love, glorified in popular culture through events like the “bed-in” for peace… Read More