There will be thinkpieces for days with regards to this album. And frankly? I welcome it. Savage (Songs From a Broken World) is the latest album by pioneering English new wave/industrial musician Gary…
Album Review: Tori Amos – “Native Invader”
If you ask twelve different people about Tori Amos, you’ll get twelve different opinions. Some see her as the it-girl of alternative 1990s music. Some see her as an even more cuckoo for cocoa puffs Ka…
From the Record Crate: Pet Shop Boys – “Actually” (1987)
The Pet Shop Boys had a hard act to follow. The group’s debut album, Please, has sold around three million copies worldwide and spawned four hit singles, one of which was that inescapable 1980s song “…
From the Record Crate: Iggy Pop – “Lust For Life” (1977)
When people think Iggy Pop, they mostly think Lust for Life. Pop’s second album, released on August 29, 1977 is easily his most successful and most commercially recognizable. It spawned multiple hits,…
Album Review: Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer – “Not Dark Yet”
Not Dark Yet is the first collaborative album between Americana singer-songwriters and sisters Shelby Lynne and Allison Moorer. It is a cover album, covering genres from country classics to grunge sta…
Album Review: Paula Cole – “Ballads”
This is a tough album to get through. Not because the songs are harrowing, not because the lyrics are heartfelt and emotional, not because the content is thought-provoking and calls for conversation, …
Album Review: Manchester Orchestra – “A Black Mile to the Surface”
There are some artists that, no matter what, sound quintessentially like the decade they’re from. Cheap Trick will sound like the 1970s. Sarah McLachlan always sounds a bit 1990s. In this vein, Manche…