AQ Columns

March 9, 2022 0

Stark-Naked Emperor Stumbles Into Infamy Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.Michael Gerard Tyson What the...

On The Record: Elliott Murphy with Olivier Durand, plus the Troggs, Kate Klim, & Terry Klein

March 4, 2022 0

Elliott Murphy’s catalog of more than four dozen first-rate albums ranks among rock’s best-kept secrets. If you’re familiar with his...

Reality Check: SADIE [2006 – 2/22/22]

March 2, 2022 0

My thoughts recoverThat days are over,And I weep.Paul Verlaine And thought she be but little, she is fierce.William Shakespeare It...

On The Record: The Left Banke, ‘The Beatles and India,’ Peter Tosh, the HawtThorns, & April March

February 25, 2022 0

The Left Banke, Strangers on a Train. The last album by the Left Banke – whose output included the 1966...

On the Record: Charley Patton, Jesse Correll, Mike Zito, Amy Jay, the Pine Hearts, & Joan Osborne

February 18, 2022 0

Charley Patton, Volumes 1–3 (1929–1934). Despite his induction last year into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Charley Patton still hasn’t garnered...

Reality Check: “LEGITIMATE POLITICAL DISCOURSE” WEEK

February 16, 2022 0

How we got here and where we’re going. For about a week at the beginning of February 2022, the Republican...

On The Record: Lucinda Williams and John Sebastian Plus Marshall Crenshaw, Wild Rivers, Michael Veitch, & Kate MacLeod

February 11, 2022 0

More Great Covers from Lucinda Williams In an earlier column, I wrote about the first four volumes of Lucinda Williams’s Lu’s Jukebox,...

Makin Waves with Dave Vargo: Good Tunes ‘n’ Hearts

Bob Makin

February 11, 2022 0

Late to the songwriting table, journeyman musician Dave Vargo, who once toured extensively as a sideman, has established a great local solo...

Reality Check: THE VONNEGUT CATHARSIS & THE PAIN OF WAR