Music Reviews: Gene and Eunice, J.M. Kearns, Tim O’Brien & Jan Fabricius, Michael Arbenz & Andy Sheppard, and Comet Gain Gene and Eunice, From Ko Ko Mo to Poco Loco: The Singles Collection 1954–62. If Gene and Eunice and the songs referenced in this anthology’s title ring no bells for you, you’re not alone. Gene […]
Music & Book Reviews: Talking Heads: 77 Box Set, plus the Flatlanders, a History of Street Singing, and More Talking Heads: 77 ranks among the most striking, fully realized, and important debut albums of the punk/new wave era that spawned it, though it doesn’t particularly sound like punk or new wave. In fact, it sounds […]
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Collective Soul, Here to Eternity. Atlanta-based Collective Soul has been around for three decades but on the evidence of its sprawling 20-track latest release, this rock group isn’t even close to running out of fresh musical ideas. Here to Eternity, the self-produced follow-up to 2022’s Vibrating, is brimming over with them, and the vast majority […]
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