Category: Music

Now Hear This!   Special Issue- 1 “Anyone can make a song, but not everyone can make music…”  (Me) Between full-blown issues is this special issue, where I review the debut album from Cardi B, a mini-epic from The Weeknd, and another debut, from Alina Baraz… let’s go! R E V I E W S Cardi […]

Now Hear This!    Issue #8, Mar/Apr 2018 Every Tuesday after work, I’d make the pilgrimage down Fullerton Avenue to Clark Street, make that right turn, and try to find a parking spot near Belden Avenue, so I could check out the new releases at Tower Records.  The store was probably more than 100,000 square […]

Issue #7, January 2018 “What you won’t and what you will / Working for your dollar bill Sad to see the old slave mill / Is grinding slow, but grinding still Walking home, a youth gets killed / Police free to shoot at will Sad to see the old slave mill / Is grinding slow, […]

In this edition: Reviews of new music from Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, Chris Stapleton, Mista Savona, Morrissey, Syleena Johnson, Maroon 5, Junior Natural, U2,  Seal   No one wants to hear your opinion… unless they agree with it.  Such is the world in which we live. Increasingly, music artists are wearing their thoughts […]

Issue # 5  November 2017   In this issue: Reviews of Gregory Porter, Thomas Rhett, Lizz Wright, Robert Plant, Ledisi, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Kamasi Washington, Darius Rucker, ODESZA, Fantasia, Ella Fitzgerald I Want My Daddy’s Records!   The last Quarter of the year usually ushers in a flurry of new releases, and this year […]

Issue #3  August 2017 In this issue: The Ella Fitzgerald Centennial celebration Reviews:  Regina Carter, new Ella reissues   Beginning on April 25th, 2017, the jazz world embarked on a year-long celebration of the Centennial birth of the greatest jazz singer (living or dead) of ALL time, Ella Fitzgerald;  around the country, events have been […]