Miracle Legion Is Coming Home to Connecticut After 20 Years
This one has been a long time in the making: Miracle Legion is coming home. After reuniting to play a handful of U.K. gigs this summer, the New Haven indie legends will warm up for their overseas trek...
View ArticleSalvation Alley String Band Faces Death in ‘Merciless Scythe of Time’ Video
Sooner or later, Death is coming. We all know it. Matt Silberstein just seems more aware than most in the Salvation Alley String Band’s stylish new video for “The Merciless Scythe of Time.” The bassist...
View ArticleWho Better Than Jack White to Advise Kermit the Frog?
There’s something oddly comforting about the news today that Jack White will appear on the season finale of “The Muppets.” Who even knew “The Muppets” had season finales? White’s appearance on the...
View ArticleMore Than a Punny Name: Phonosynthesis Shows Chops on ‘Gruvhaus’
Two things that tend not to sit well with me: band names that are puns, and funk-jazz-rock hybrids, which too often signal that the music is mostly just tedious jamming (or is that redundant?)....
View ArticleZambonis Members Branch Out With Donald Trump Spoof ‘Mr. Drumpf’
Inspired by John Oliver’s brilliantly constructed takedown of Donald Trump on “Last Week Tonight,” Connecticut musicians Dave Schneider and Tim Walsh called themselves Last Beat Tonight and wrote and...
View ArticleDebating the Song of the Summer on ‘The Colin McEnroe Show’
Summertime: that blessed stretch of warm-weather freedom, tied together with a season-defining piece of music — the song of the summer. Yet what seems like it should just be a serendipitous consensus...
View ArticleBringing Big Thief’s Visceral ‘Masterpiece’ to The River
Joan Holliday first invited me to do the “Best New Song of the Week” spot with her on WRSI-FM (93.9) in early 2012 — our inaugural Best New Song, in fact, was “Show Me the Place” from Leonard Cohen’s...
View ArticleErin McKeown Gives Love an Earnest Look on ‘Sugar in a Pie’
Erin McKeown wrote the songs on her new EP “According to Us” long before “Hamilton” writer and star Lin-Manuel Miranda delivered his “love is love is love is love” sonnet-by-way-of-acceptance-speech at...
View ArticlePixies Surge Back With ‘Um Chagga Lagga’: Best New Song of the Week
The email subject header was direct: “Pixies Announce New Bass Player, CD, Tour,” all of which are welcome developments. The new bass player is more of a technicality, though. Paz Lenchantin has been...
View ArticleMitski’s ‘Your Best American Girl’ Is Obviously a (Turbulent) Love Song
Song lyrics are always subject to interpretation, but it was surprising (to me, anyway) to learn that Mitski’s stunning tune “Your Best American Girl” has been regarded by some reviewers, in her words,...
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