When Carl Barât was playing in the Libertines with Pete Doeherty, many believed that their success was due in large part to the talent that Pete brought to the table. After watching Carl and former Libertines, drummer Gary Powell, along with Anthony Rossomando (Doherty’s replacement) it’s obvious Carl is as much, if not more artistically […]
Huge festival shows are always a bit iffy in my book. Many of them try to pack in too many bands, have insanely long lines to everything and nowhere to go or nothing else to do if you don’t like the particular band that’s on stage. The Family Values Tour at the Coors Amphitheater was […]
This isn’t fair, but anybody that has followed Slayer’s career knows this to be true—they simply can’t top their 1986 thrash metal masterpiece Reign In Blood. Whether they have truly tried or not can be questioned, but inevitably Tom Araya, Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King have failed in recreating the concentrated evil that oozes from […]
In a very literal sense, the Trachtenberg Family Slide Show Players ensemble embraces the “gold age of slide projection” during the ‘50s, ’60s, and ‘70s, inspired by a vintage slide projector discovered by mom Tina Trachtenberg. It was her brilliant idea to add this medium to the folk songs of her husband. When this happened, […]
I’ve listened to this album five or six times now, to the point that the tracks from Stockholm’s Willowtree continue playing in my brain long after the CD has reached the end. Most notably, “Summer on TV.” It’s as if lead singer and songwriter Joel Ekelöf has been reading my mind. “When the beautiful people […]
