EDUARDO, Cruising A Melody
Not since David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” (and Peter Schilling’s later rejoinder “Major Tom”) and Elton John’s “Rocket Man” has a rock...
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THE JW VIBE
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Jonathan Widran
- Sep 7
ROBERT LaROCHE, Forevermore
Several decades after the original heyday of power-pop sensations The Sighs and their breakthrough album What Goes On, it’s amazing to...
Jonathan Widran
- Aug 21
KETURAH ALLGOOD, Shine
Tucked neatly at the emotional center of the 12 attitude and soul transforming tracks of Shine –Keturah Algood’s first album in 17 years...
Jonathan Widran
- Aug 20
SAINT PACIFIC, Blue
If you really dig on the raw, sometimes edgy hard rolling yet often sensitively soulful rock blues storyteller tunes on Saint Pacific’s...
Jonathan Widran
- Aug 20
MATTHEW SHELL & KENNY MCNEIL, "My Ride or Die"
From the first bubbly bass rhythms and seductive wordless vocal introduction of “My Ride or Die” and on through one of the most...
Jonathan Widran
- Aug 12
ROB MULLINS, "Riders on the Storm"
Inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2010, The Doors’ classic 1971 song “Riders on the Storm” is a psychedelic, gothic jazz rock/art...
Jonathan Widran
- Aug 7
TOM CIURCZAK, I Ain't Ever Growing Up, Volume I
In The Who’s 1965 anthem “My Generation,” a then 21-year-old Roger Daltrey – obviously unaware that he and Pete Townshend would someday...
Jonathan Widran
- Jul 24
THE SCOOCHES, Lift You Up
Every colorful word of praise I expressed about Banjo Nickaru & Western Scooches’ rhythmically eclectic, dazzling and fun 2018...
Jonathan Widran
- Jul 15
UTE LEMPER, Time Traveler
On “Time Traveler,” the dreamy and deeply soulful, downtempo yet vocally dramatic title track from Ute Lemper’s eclectic new album, the...
Jonathan Widran
- Jul 8
MICHAEL PELOSO, Here From There
As Michael Peloso found out quite unexpectedly, that’s the way inspiration works sometimes. The versatile keyboardist, composer, arranger...
Jonathan Widran
- Jul 8
MAINLAND BREAK, One Way Ticket To Midnight
Somewhere within the hard-hitting flow of One Way Ticket to Midnight, the brilliant, feisty and ultra-ambitious – not to mention, crisply...
Jonathan Widran
- Jul 2
SUSAN WENDELKEN, Alayne's Echo
Considering that powerhouse veteran rocker, Irish music enthusiast and singer/songwriter Susan Wendelken makes no bones about the...
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