Downstate October 2025 — Americana Music Playlist on Apple Music Downstate October 2025! This is a nice list, with frequent and fresh quality updates. Please follow and heart Americana Highways’ Apple Music playlist, “Downstate,” curated by Rodney Metoyer, which has just been newly updated! Find new quality music that maybe you haven’t heard of, or […]
A large and lavish box set devoted to one of John Lennon’s least favorably reviewed periods might seem ill-advised, and in some ways it is. But Lennon lovers will find interesting material in the new Power to the People, and even casual fans will discover some pleasures here. The collection, which Sean Ono Lennon […]
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Catching Momentum: Maia Sharp’s Poetic Reckoning On the surface, Maia Sharp’s songs sound effortless—phrases that float with conversational ease, melodies that feel inevitable once you’ve heard them. But ease is an illusion; the heart of her craft is wrestling with uncertainty. For Sharp, every song is both a mirror and a map, a way of […]
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Maia Sharp – Tomboy This is multi-instrumentalist Maia Sharp’s 10th solo album in a 30-year career. Filled with her signature poetic & confessional lyricism, this showcase is percussive in nature with found objects & miscellaneous instruments rather than just straight-ahead drums. Following in a path taken by Tom Waits. The 10 musical faces of Maia’s […]
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Bentley’s Bandstand: August 2025 by Bill Bentley Marshall Crenshaw, FROM THE “HELLHOLE.” Here’s the prime example of a rock & roll expert who knows how to juggle originals and cover songs in a way that everything comes out his own in the end. It’s not an easy attribute to perfect, but Marshall Crenshaw sure did. […]
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Music & Film Reviews: David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: The Motion Picture (50th-Anniversary ed.), plus John Mellencamp and More Anyone who doubted early on that David Bowie was on the road to superstardom probably hadn’t witnessed his July 3, 1973, show at London’s Hammersmith Odeon. It’s notable not just because he […]
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