by Sean Passmore | Aug 29, 2020 | Album of the Week
To date The Rolling Stones have released 30 studio albums. There’s a nice round symmetry to the number 30, a more than acceptable end point to hang one’s legacy on. Having said that, reportedly the Stones have been picking away at their 31st for the last...
by Sean Passmore | Aug 22, 2020 | Album of the Week
Founded in 1996 in Olympia, Washington by the then 18 year old Phil Elverum, over the years The Microphones have been a revolving door of at least a dozen or so local musicians from the Olympia music scene with Elverum as the prime songwriter and producer. After...
by Sean Passmore | Aug 9, 2020 | Album of the Week
Much has been said and written about Neil Young’s so called lost or abandoned 1974 Homegrown album. Fans have had over 45 years to speculate on which of the 30 odd songs Young recorded around the time would ultimately end up on the album and what the final track...
by Sean Passmore | Aug 1, 2020 | Album of the Week
For those unaware, the artist formerly known as the Dixie Chicks (now branded simply as The Chicks in light of the current cultural climate surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement and other forces at large) are an American country pop trio consisting of singer...
by Sean Passmore | Jul 11, 2020 | Album of the Week
What do Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Rod Stewart and James Taylor all have in common? Well, besides the fact that they are all septuagenarians, they’ve also all made albums of standards, James Taylor’s American Standard being the most recent. American...
by Sean Passmore | Jul 5, 2020 | Album of the Week
Clocking in at a compact 43 minutes, Chromatica, Lady Gaga’s sixth album in 12 years, a hard discographical fact emblazoned in metal on the inside cover of the album’s accompanying booklet, visually celebrates the iconography of Swiss artist H.R....
