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Bruce & Ricky Get Freaky (Port Folio Weekly)
The first thought that came to mind as I listened to Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby was that Bruce was born to sing bluegrass.
The Shins: Kicking It Into a Higher Gear (Washington Post)
Constitution Hall is a big space for the Shins. The group recently graduated from playing clubs, and the chance it could command a 3,700-seat venue seemed unlikely, given the wispy, often downbeat sound of its new album, "Wincing the Night Away."
The British Are Coming (Port Folio Weekly)
Invasion officially began on February 7, 1964, when the four Beatles got off a plane at New York?s JFK airport to a rabid welcome from an adoring throng of screaming fans.
Thoughts on Rock and Roll in the Seventies-Punk and Power Pop (Part I) (Blogc...
Much like garage rock, power pop is one of the most fluid and hard to define genres in music. No one has yet to really define it. That may be because like punk and its early, forebear glam-rock, both of which have more slightly tangible boundaries, power pop is part of rock and roll?s third generation. That is to say it came of age in the seventies, a very confusing and musically messy decade. ...
Music Review: Bee Gees - 1st (Blogcritics.org)
T'was Matthew Sweet who first got me reconsidering the Brothers Gibb: covering one of the Aussie sibs' sixties hits, "Come to Me," with Under the Covers collaborator Susannah Hoffs, he had me listening to a song I hadn't thought about in years ? and, in so doing, made me hear the pop craftiness that had gone into that particular 45. "The Bee Gees don't get enough respect," Sweet went on ...