News Feed for Tuesday, July 11
In the news today: Jason Isbell, Frost Amphitheater, The Throwbacks, The Monkees, Neil Diamond
In the news today: Jason Isbell, Frost Amphitheater, The Throwbacks, The Monkees, Neil Diamond
A curated feed of links from around the internet.
The Lost Album (Tollie / Sunset Blvd.). Review by Julius C. Lacking.
In order to locate the psychedelic rainbow treasure trove that is Joey Joesph, you will have to navigate and defeat countless auto-corrects.
Two artists look at fathers and sons - Doug Hoekstra experiences Springsteen on Broadway.
(I Can’t Get No) Stevie Jackson (Banchory Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Carl Gauze reviews 19 important people who died this year and just didn’t get the Ink they deserved. Spoiler alert: it was a bad year for Jacks.
Keep This Love Goin’ (Clang! / Big Notes). Review by Carl F Gauze.
How do you dethrone the “King of Pop”? Let the current king disappear to Bahrain and get sued for $7 million by an Arab sheik; take your kaleidoscopic and playful songs to California’s Westlake Studios where Michael Jackson recorded Thriller; or simply be a boy named Pop. Pop Levi goes 2 of 3 and emerges with Never Never Love, an album shot through with the ghosts of Prince, MJ, and R. Kelly. S D Green and the musical shape-shifter talk the process of Pop.
Matt Parish looks into the eyes of soul at a recent Leon Russell show.
Introducing (I and Ear). Review by Jen Cray.
Pennsylvania’s best-kept secret, a little band called Illinois , is about to go out on a large-scale U.S. tour with The Kooks. Their EP is one of Jen Cray’s latest mailbox treasures, so she called up singer/songwriter Chris Archibald for a chat.
Reunion (Fuel 2000). Review by Carl F Gauze.
HotSocky (Billtown USA). Review by – Gail Worley.
Ready Ready Set Go (Hollywood). Review by Stein Haukland.
Just Me (Davy Jones Productions). Review by James Mann.
Charles DJ Deppner takes a look at a new book of artwork by DEVO’s Mark Mothersbaugh, and discovers the book is actually looking back at him.
Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds’ “Wicked World” video features Alice Bag, previews That Delicious Vice, out April 19 on In The Red Records.
Despite serving up ample slices of signature snark, FOX News golden boy Jesse Watters, for the most part, just listens — driving the narrative of his latest book, Get It Together, through the stories of others.
Brooklyn rapper Max Gertler finds himself a bit ground up on “Put My Heart in a Jay,” his latest single.
The dissolution of a wealthy Russian family confuses everyone involved.