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THE GAMBLE WE CALL LOVE..

There is an almost inevitable relationship between love and gambling: both ask us to invest without ever guaranteeing a return. On “NOTHING LEFT TO...

FORTY-EIGHT AND JUST GETTING STARTED!

Forty-eight is an unusual age to buy your first electric piano. It is an even more unusual age to begin building a musical identity...

THE DARK SIDE OF DEVOTION..

The most effective warnings are sometimes the ones you don't recognize as warnings. “Madreselvas” by Evil Maracastakes its time revealing what it is really...

A LITTLE FASTER THAN GROWING UP!

Freedom rarely arrives with the grandeur we expect. Sometimes it looks like two sets of keys, shaky hands on a steering wheel, someone in...

THE LONELINESS OF BEING CLOSE..

Nostalgia can make almost anything feel meaningful in retrospect. But LaCosta Tucker’s It Matters to Me does not need nostalgia to justify its return....

Guillotine by OpCritical

"Guillotine" is the third installment in OpCritical's trilogy about oligarchic excess and inequality, and the seventh single the band has put out this year....

Album: A Wink Is As Good As A Nod To A Blind Mule by...

David Moore's path to this album wasn't a straight line. A soccer injury ended his playing career young, and after decades working in the...

Protected: Riffs from the Nile

Over ten years ago, I penned "The Egyptian Bands We Miss" in 2014, reflecting on the groups that had either disbanded or faded into...

BOSTON’S “MORE THAN A FEELING” RETURNS 50 YEARS LATER

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Fifty years after BOSTON’s “More Than a Feeling” became one of rock ’n’ roll’s most enduring anthems, A Foreigner’s Journey to...

Interview with Fiona’s Phobias

Part theatrical horror, part dark cabaret, part gothic metal, part pop punk — and entirely their own thing. Fiona's Phobias, the fiendishly creative duo...