On January 15, Buck Meek released his second full length solo album, Two Saviors. My 20-something daughter, knowing my tastes better than I do, recommended I check it out. Now, my daughter has impeccable taste in music. Unfortunately, I don’t. So, I have only myself to blame when my initial reaction to Two Saviors was […]
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Introducing our newest Spotify playlist: Heartbreak City! Curated by Steve Semeraro. Listen and follow for regular updates of new music.
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On January 8, Petite League released its fifth full-length album Joyrider. Petite League is a Hall-and-Oates-H2O kind of partnership between Lorenzo Gillis Cook who writes and sings all of the songs and plays all the guitars. On prior releases, but not the Joyrider album, he also did the art. Henry Schoonmaker plays the drums. Zeke […]
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A Growing Season is a breathtaking debut album by Seamus McMahon. Released in June 2020, it’s a true solo effort in which McMahon wrote, sang, and played all the instruments on every song. The project name, “Marjorie,” is the name of McMahon’s grandmother who owned the house in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, where he wrote and recorded […]
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On November 13, 2020, Mitch Dembin released his second full length album Nothing Up My Sleeve. From the opening piano figure (is it a Fender Rhodes?), you just know that this album is going give late Boomers/early Gen-Xers something to smile about. Perhaps more than any time since the advent of rock & roll, musicians […]
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Thirty-five years ago this month, The Waterboys released the extraordinary album This is the Sea. It was the band’s third album – the make or break point for all the great ones, right – and boy did they make it. This is the Sea culminated Mike Scott’s “Big Music” period, a unique style featuring widely […]
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On August 21, The Waterboys will release Good Luck, Seeker, their fourteenth album (sixteenth if you count Mike Scott’s solo branded records from the 90s). When it comes to The Waterboys, I’m a relative newbie. My band played “Fisherman’s Blues,” of course. But until about a year ago, I didn’t know the ethic of the band […]
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Kinshasa, the fight, hear the lion will roar But the greatest has faded, can’t dance anymore The monster, Foreman, has fists filled with lead first round, maybe 2, he’ll hand Ali his head Look away, I can’t watch, he can’t get off the ropes But you know now, all about that dope Look quick, do […]
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Fans of female singer-songwriters are going to love discovering Charlottesville-based Nan Macmillan’s first release August and the in Between. She explains that the record marks the passage of time between August 2017 and August 2019. It was a transformative period for her. Leaving Charlottesville, moving to Spain, and then returning to Virginia “to set down roots and figure out who […]
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I’ve never been “into” Fiona Apple. For me, the 90s were a musical black hole. I first came to know her at the Ohana Festival a couple of years ago. She played some of what she was working on for Fetch the Bolt Cutters, and a bunch of covers. There was a moment, I remember […]
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