• Christopher Owens album cover for I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair
    Indie

    Christopher Owens is back with new music

    After a (close to) 10-year hiatus of new music, Christopher Owens is back with the recently announced ‘I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair‘ (due in October). Chris was a founding member of Girls, who split in 2012 after releasing…

  • Camera Obscura promo photo
    Indie

    The Light Nights – Camera Obscura

    If my Tuesday night hadn’t been spent catching Kamasi Washington’s Mesa gig, you would have found me Wednesday night at the intimate & awesome Crescent Ballroom watching Scottish band Camera Obscura. I fully realize I missed a terrific and rare…

  • Kamasi Washington
    Jazz,  Live

    Recap: Kamasi Washington at the Mesa Arts Center

    Kamasi Washington wrapped up the US leg of his Fearless Movement tour on Tuesday (June 11) with a stop at the Ikeda Theater (Mesa Arts Center) here in Mesa, AZ. I became aware of Kamasi Washington back in 2015 with…

  • Jazz

    Kurt Elling, SuperBlue and Endless Lawns

    Kurt Elling. Voice extraordinaire. Born 1967 in Chicago (3 years my senior), raised in Rockford, Illinois. He discovered the wonders of jazz while attending Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. He developed his vocal chops back in Chicago while…

  • Live

    Recap: Springsteen in Phoenix (March 19)

    It’s been 19 days since the tour opener of the 2024 incarnation of Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band. The show took place here in Phoenix, his first show here since March 2016 (!) when Bruce and the Band…

  • Acoustic

    Jeff Tweedy’s “Jesus Wept”

    Crikey, it’s been almost 14 years since I last wrote here about the great and underrated Jeff Tweedy. As time chugs along, the presence of Jeff’s music – both solo and with Wilco – are like an ever present, familiar,…

  • Irish

    Raul Malo’s Beautiful Playlist + Declan O’Rourke

    I’ve been following Mavericks front man and Golden Voice Extraordinaire Raul Malo on Spotify for some time now. He has some hidden treasures there in his many playlists – for me, two playlists in particular have me coming back for…

  • Rock n' Folk

    New from Bruce Cockburn: ‘O Sun O Moon’

    In 53 years of writing and recording, there’s been an undercurrent of spirituality in the music of Canadian Bruce Cockburn. He’s always had a knack for painting a picture of his Christian faith in a way that doesn’t hit you…