by Sean Passmore | Jul 3, 2018 | Album of the Week
55 years ago on March 6th, 1963, 36-year-old American jazz composer and saxophonist John Coltrane entered his favorite vaulted, wood-and-masonry-block recording studio at 445 Sylvan Avenue, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey for a five-hour long recording session with...
by Sean Passmore | Jun 25, 2018 | Album of the Week
37-year-old pop music diva Christina Aguilera is back with her eighth album in 20 years, sixth when excluding her 2000 Christmas album and the Spanish language Mi Reflejo record from the same year which contained recycled material from her bestselling 1999 self-titled...
by Sean Passmore | Jun 22, 2018 | Album of the Week
[bandcamp width=350 height=470 album=772076353 size=large bgcol=ffffff linkcol=0687f5 tracklist=false track=2681831446] For those of us who were fortunate enough to know him, please take a moment to reflect on a life lived or, in Matthew’s words “a life...
by Sean Passmore | Jun 17, 2018 | Album of the Week
With his dreamy rock star good looks, angelic voice and gunslinger guitar chops 27-year-old British singing sensation James Bay lies somewhere between Rick Springfield and Jeff Buckley, perhaps more “Jessie’s Girl” than “Last Goodbye”. Electric Light, the follow up to...
by Sean Passmore | Jun 11, 2018 | Album of the Week
In these days of nonstop in-your-face social outrage, twitter wars and bombast there’s something to be said for quiet and unassuming. That’s exactly how Washington State’s The Moondoggies have been going about things for the better part of a decade now and, if the...
