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May 20, 2024
The key to Sanborn's success was his sound, which ran sweet-tart with a bracing bite, like the wedge of lime on a salt-rimmed cocktail glass....
May 17, 2024
Listening to Blunt Instrument leaves one feeling bludgeoned and cut a thousand ways, the smell of gunpowder lingering in the air. Blunt Instrument is the sonic version of Patricia Evangelista’s Some People Need Killing channeled through a distortion pedal. (Terno Recordings)...
April 21, 2024
Radio was my gateway to music and soft culture, the subtle creep of youthful rebellion beyond the reach of government’s martial law propaganda machinery....
April 12, 2024
The boomers and GenXers in the audience lived through and survived the turbulent 70s and 80s while dealing with their own turmoils and demons, the same turmoils and demons that James Taylor, especially in his early years, dealt with and sang about...
April 11, 2024
When I told my research team of millennials that Tesa and I were going to watch a concert by James Taylor, I was met with blank stares that seemed to say, “James who?”...
February 06, 2024
There are rough edges in Mortiz’s voice, but therein lies the beauty and magic...