What’s the best revenge after a messy break up? Sure you can go all Angela Bassett on their ass, stuffing their car with any belongings they left behind and torch it. If you don’t know the Waiting To Exhale reference, you have other things you should be doing than reading this post. Or you could…
I’ve been a fan of Norwegian singer Maria Mena for over twenty years but haven’t been lucky enough to see her in concert. She does shows in Europe but never in the USA. She hinted once about coming to New York City which had me hyped but that never materialized. When I was in Amsterdam…
September was the month of double albums, a few weeks ago Paula Cole put out her two Sonic Memoir volumes and last week Carly Rae Jepsen dropped her twenty-four track (one for every hour of the day) double disc Day And Night. The first twelve songs are the Day disc. Daytime Carly is experimental with…
The List is the Susanna Hoffs album I’ve been waiting years for. In March I went to The Ridgefield Playhouse in Connecticut to see Susanna perform most of the songs off The List with a few Bangles songs thrown in. I’ve been a fan for decades but it’s seldom that Susanna tours or puts out…
Paula Cole’s new double album, Sonic Memoir Vol I and II is four and a half hours containing 63-demos spanning the first nine years of Paula’s career. Finally, a diva who recognizes the appropriate amount of songs for a new release. Paula went into her vaults to dust off these musical treasures (from 1989-1998), gave…
Over the past few years, there’s been a lot of talk about AI in the music industry. However, what if it’s been around longer and is just letting itself be known now? Picture it, the late 1990’s, a young diva is just coming off a popular soap opera (Neighbours) and taking the world by storm…
I became a fan of Kathy Troccoli’s pop albums (Pure Attraction and self-titled) in the 90’s, but she mostly does Christian music now. It’s not my jam but I followed her career over the years, picking up her Christmas (A Sentimental Christmas) and covers (Heartsongs) albums along the way. In 2016, I saw her jazz standards…
Leave it to Madonna to cash in on something that’s been around forever but make it her own. Sequels are a staple in film but I don’t think it’s been done in music, until Confessions II, a companion to her 2005 album Confessions On A Dance Floor. Historically sequels are never as good, but in…
Light Bird first hit my radar thanks to a Kickstarter campaign to get her new album, See Her, made. That’s my favorite site to discover indie artists and help get their music out into the world…unfortunately, right now it’s a transphobic world. In my gay opinion, the best way to fight this hatred is by…
Last month my partner and I went to the Reggatabar Jazz Club in Cambridge, Massachusetts to see Lenka in concert. I’ve seen her a bunch and her shows are always perfection. Her set-list spanned her career with a few new songs in the mix. After the show, she met fans at the merch table. When…
